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Padmaja Subbarao

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Associate ProfessorEpidemiology DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Padmaja Subbarao

Associate Professor

Epidemiology Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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113 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 16 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 11 research grants (11 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 6 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2025.

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Academic metrics

228

Publications

11,967

Citations

h-index

130

Collaborators

Grants

Publications by year

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Research

Asthma Lung Function Microbiome Puberty Childhood Asthma Infection Birth Cohort Epidemiology

Latest papers

Measuring diet intake in adolescents: Relative validation of an artificial intelligence enhanced, image assisted mobile application
Clinical Nutrition · 2026
Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Behavioral Outcomes in Canadian Children
JAMA Network Open · 2026
Milk fat intake, adiposity, and obesity in Canadian children: findings from the prospective Canadian CHILD Cohort Study
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2026

All 228 publications

Latest funding

Unpacking the Impact of Ultra-Processed Food on Youth Cardiovascular Health: A Multi-Omic, Translational Approach
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$10,000
The efficacy of mometasone/formoterol combination inhaler therapy in children with asthma
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$6,000
Silent Prospective Validation of CHART-ML: A symptom-based machine learning tool for early identification of preschool children at high-risk of asthma-related hospital visits
CIHR · 2024 · Supervisor
$120,000

All 25 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 228 publications.

Measuring diet intake in adolescents: Relative validation of an artificial intelligence enhanced, image assisted mobile application

Moyen A, Rossi A, Hart M, Simons E, Mandhane PJ, Moraes TJ, Azad MB, Turvey SE, Subbarao P, Tessier A-J

Clinical Nutrition20265 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2025.106568

Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Behavioral Outcomes in Canadian Children

Kavanagh ME, Chen ZH, Tamana SK, Moraes TJ, Simons E, Turvey SE, Subbarao P, Mandhane PJ, Miliku K

JAMA Network Open20264 citations

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.0434

Milk fat intake, adiposity, and obesity in Canadian children: findings from the prospective Canadian CHILD Cohort Study

Zeitoun T, Chen ZH, Burgner D, MacKechnie G, Huntington P, Mansell T, Longmore D, Mandhane PJ, Simons E, Turvey SE

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition20263 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2025.101186

Early life bacteria and sibling exposure associate with restoration of the infant gut microbiome after cesarean section

Jiang J, Poulsen CS, Boulund U, Shah S, Trivedi U, Bhattacharyya M, Neumann AU, Dai DLY, Petersen C, Hoskinson C

Nature Communications20263 citations

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71185-6

Phthalates, bisphenols, and childhood allergic Phenotypes: Findings from two birth cohort studies

Boissiere-O'Neill T, Lazarevic N, Ponsonby A-L, Sly PD, Chen A, Blake TL, Brook JR, Du Berry C, King L, Mandhane PJ

Environmental Pollution20263 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2025.127401

Breastfeeding may lessen socioeconomic disparities in child health through differences in the infant gut microbiome

Dai DLY, Manus MB, Hoskinson C, Jiang J, Sbihi H, Miliku K, Campisi SC, Korczak DJ, Duan Q, Moraes TJ

Cell Reports Medicine20263 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2026.102755

Organophosphate ester flame retardants and plasticizers in house dust and Child Behavior Checklist outcomes: A nested study in the Canadian CHILD Birth Cohort

Foster SA, Kile ML, Hystad P, Diamond ML, Mandhane PJ, Moraes TJ, Pei J, Scott JA, Simons E, Subbarao P

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology20262 citations

DOI: 10.1038/s41370-025-00821-y

Human Milk and Infant Gut Microbiome in Association With Infant Fecal Metabolome and Child Blood Pressure

Liu T, Petersen C, Zhao N, Moraes TJ, Subbarao P, Simons E, Azad MB, Miliku K, Bode L, Moore B

JAMA Network Open20262 citations

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.59385

Maternal and perinatal nutritional programming of lung health and disease in childhood and early adulthood: Research gaps and opportunities—National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/National Institutes of Health Workshop Report

McEvoy CT, Idrose NS, Dharmage SC, Bui. DS, Simpson SJ, Patchen B, Marshall NE, Kelly RS, Lynch SV, McDonald CM

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology20261 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2026.03.029

Saccharomycetes and Malassezia fungi associate with early-life gut maturation and allergic disease risk in childhood

Hoskinson C, Dai DLY, Petersen C, Moraes TJ, Mandhane PJ, Simons E, Kozyrskyj AL, Azad MB, Subbarao P, Turvey SE

Nature Communications20261 citations

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-74418-w

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Padmaja Subbarao

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Measuring diet intake in adolescents: Relative validation of an artificial intelligence enhanced, image assisted mobile application

Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Behavioral Outcomes in Canadian Children

Milk fat intake, adiposity, and obesity in Canadian children: findings from the prospective Canadian CHILD Cohort Study

Early life bacteria and sibling exposure associate with restoration of the infant gut microbiome after cesarean section

Phthalates, bisphenols, and childhood allergic Phenotypes: Findings from two birth cohort studies

Breastfeeding may lessen socioeconomic disparities in child health through differences in the infant gut microbiome

Organophosphate ester flame retardants and plasticizers in house dust and Child Behavior Checklist outcomes: A nested study in the Canadian CHILD Birth Cohort

Human Milk and Infant Gut Microbiome in Association With Infant Fecal Metabolome and Child Blood Pressure

Maternal and perinatal nutritional programming of lung health and disease in childhood and early adulthood: Research gaps and opportunities—National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/National Institutes of Health Workshop Report

Saccharomycetes and Malassezia fungi associate with early-life gut maturation and allergic disease risk in childhood

Frequent collaborators

Padmaja Subbarao

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Wendy Lou

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Felix Ratjen

Piush Mandhane

Michael Mark Cyr

Hind Sbihi

Qingling Duan

Joseph Macri

Zihang Lu

Koon Teo

Stephanie Atkinson

Katherine Morrison

Indra Narang

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Allan Becker

Zihang Lu

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Sandi Azab

Philip Britz Mckibbin

Teresa To

Michael Surette

Stuart Turvey

Leslie Roos

Theo Moraes

Michael Brauer

Maria Medeleanu

Sarah McDonald

Gita Wahi

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Valerie Carson

Susan Elliott

Miranda Kirby

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