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Paul Demers

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ProfessorOccupational & Environmental Health DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Paul Demers

Professor

Occupational & Environmental Health Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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3 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 5 research grants (5 CIHR), most recently in 2017.
Supervisor on 1 trainee award (1 CIHR), most recently in 2008.

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Latest papers

Exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation and dementia mortality in Canadian nuclear power plant workers.
Environmental research · 2026
Immunogenicity of bivalent versus monovalent mRNA booster vaccination among adult paramedics in Canada who had received three prior mRNA wild-type doses.
Access microbiology · 2025
The relationship between the number of COVID-19 vaccines and infection with Omicron ACE2 inhibition at 18-months post initial vaccination in an adult cohort of Canadian paramedics.
Access microbiology · 2023

All 13 publications

Latest funding

Opioid prescribing among injured workers: Understanding patterns of prescribing and their association with opioid-related harms after a compensated work-related injury
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$642,600
Occupational exposure to ionizing radiation and the impacts on cancer incidence, and mortality: a record linkage cohort study of nearly one million workers in the Canadian National Dose Registry
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$558,451
Combining contact lens sensors, metabolomics and artificial intelligence to characterize exposure and breast cancer biomarkers
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
$149,720

All 13 grants and awards

13 publications.

Exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation and dementia mortality in Canadian nuclear power plant workers.

Frangione B, Rodriguez Villamizar LA, Colman I, Momoli F, Davesne E, Zablotska L, Peters CE, Demers P, Do M, Prendergast T, Prince P, Villeneuve PJ

Environmental research2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2026.124067 PMID: 41720440

Immunogenicity of bivalent versus monovalent mRNA booster vaccination among adult paramedics in Canada who had received three prior mRNA wild-type doses.

Asamoah-Boaheng M, Goldfarb DM, Kayda I, Yap J, Kirkham T, Karim ME, Demers P, Copp JM, Grunau B

Access microbiology2025

DOI: 10.1099/acmi.0.000791.v3 PMID: 39807477

The relationship between the number of COVID-19 vaccines and infection with Omicron ACE2 inhibition at 18-months post initial vaccination in an adult cohort of Canadian paramedics.

Yap J, Kayda I, Asamoah-Boaheng M, Haig S, Kirkham T, Cheskes S, Demers P, Goldfarb D, Grunau BE

Access microbiology2023

DOI: 10.1099/acmi.0.000725.v3 PMID: 38074102

Metabolic health measurements of shift workers in a national cross-sectional study: Results from the Canadian Health Measures Survey.

Harris MA, Kim J, Demers P

American journal of industrial medicine2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23283 PMID: 34346078

Diesel Engine Exhaust Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Exposure-Response Analysis of 14 Case-Control Studies.

Ge C, Peters S, Olsson A, Portengen L, Schüz J, Almansa J, Ahrens W, Bencko V, Benhamou S, Boffetta P, Bueno-de-Mesquita B, Caporaso N, Consonni D, Demers P, Fabiánová E, Fernández-Tardón G, Field J, Forastiere F, Foretova L, Guénel P, Gustavsson P, Janout V, Jöckel KH, Karrasch S, Teresa Landi M, Lissowska J, Luce D, Mates D, McLaughlin J, Merletti F, Mirabelli D, Pándics T, Parent MÉ, Plato N, Pohlabeln H, Richiardi L, Siemiatycki J, Świątkowska B, Tardón A, Wichmann HE, Zaridze D, Straif K, Kromhout H, Vermeulen R

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine2020

DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201911-2101oc PMID: 32330395

Respirable Crystalline Silica Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies.

Ge C, Peters S, Olsson A, Portengen L, Schüz J, Almansa J, Behrens T, Pesch B, Kendzia B, Ahrens W, Bencko V, Benhamou S, Boffetta P, Bueno-de-Mesquita B, Caporaso N, Consonni D, Demers P, Fabiánová E, Fernández-Tardón G, Field J, Forastiere F, Foretova L, Guénel P, Gustavsson P, Ho V, Janout V, Jöckel KH, Karrasch S, Landi MT, Lissowska J, Luce D, Mates D, McLaughlin J, Merletti F, Mirabelli D, Plato N, Pohlabeln H, Richiardi L, Rudnai P, Siemiatycki J, Świątkowska B, Tardón A, Wichmann HE, Zaridze D, Brüning T, Straif K, Kromhout H, Vermeulen R

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine2020

DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201910-1926oc PMID: 32330394

Response to the letter to the editor regarding "Career fire hall exposures to diesel engine exhaust in Ontario, Canada" manuscript.

Kirkham T, Demers P, Kalenge S, Chung J

Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene2020

DOI: 10.1080/15459624.2020.1773475 PMID: 32693708

An approach to estimating the environmental burden of cancer from known and probable carcinogens: application to Ontario, Canada.

Greco SL, MacIntyre E, Young S, Warden H, Drudge C, Kim J, Candido E, Demers P, Copes R

BMC public health2020

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-08771-w PMID: 32590953

The Economic Burden of Bladder Cancer Due to Occupational Exposure

Jung YL, Tompa E, Longo C, Kalcevich C, Kim J, Song C, Demers P

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine201816 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1097/jom.0000000000001242

Lung cancer and socioeconomic status in a pooled analysis of case-control studies.

Hovanec J, Siemiatycki J, Conway DI, Olsson A, Stücker I, Guida F, Jöckel KH, Pohlabeln H, Ahrens W, Brüske I, Wichmann HE, Gustavsson P, Consonni D, Merletti F, Richiardi L, Simonato L, Fortes C, Parent ME, McLaughlin J, Demers P, Landi MT, Caporaso N, Tardón A, Zaridze D, Szeszenia-Dabrowska N, Rudnai P, Lissowska J, Fabianova E, Field J, Dumitru RS, Bencko V, Foretova L, Janout V, Kromhout H, Vermeulen R, Boffetta P, Straif K, Schüz J, Kendzia B, Pesch B, Brüning T, Behrens T

PloS one2018

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192999 PMID: 29462211

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Paul Demers

Latest papers

Latest funding

Exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation and dementia mortality in Canadian nuclear power plant workers.

Immunogenicity of bivalent versus monovalent mRNA booster vaccination among adult paramedics in Canada who had received three prior mRNA wild-type doses.

The relationship between the number of COVID-19 vaccines and infection with Omicron ACE2 inhibition at 18-months post initial vaccination in an adult cohort of Canadian paramedics.

Metabolic health measurements of shift workers in a national cross-sectional study: Results from the Canadian Health Measures Survey.

Diesel Engine Exhaust Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Exposure-Response Analysis of 14 Case-Control Studies.

Respirable Crystalline Silica Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies.

Response to the letter to the editor regarding "Career fire hall exposures to diesel engine exhaust in Ontario, Canada" manuscript.

An approach to estimating the environmental burden of cancer from known and probable carcinogens: application to Ontario, Canada.

The Economic Burden of Bladder Cancer Due to Occupational Exposure

Lung cancer and socioeconomic status in a pooled analysis of case-control studies.

Opioid prescribing among injured workers: Understanding patterns of prescribing and their association with opioid-related harms after a compensated work-related injury

Occupational exposure to ionizing radiation and the impacts on cancer incidence, and mortality: a record linkage cohort study of nearly one million workers in the Canadian National Dose Registry

Combining contact lens sensors, metabolomics and artificial intelligence to characterize exposure and breast cancer biomarkers

Workplace exposures and prostate cancer: analysis and reporting on a Canadian population-based study

Innovations for assessing occupational exposure to carcinogens in population based studies

Towards an assessment of health risks associated with exposure to gamma radiation Among a cohort of Ontario Uranium Miners

CANadian Urban Environmental (CANUE) Health Research Consortium

The Health of Canada's Aging Workforce: A Special Symposium at the 2016 Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health Conference

Translating Environmental Exposure Estimates for Cancer Policy and Prevention

Occupational Cancer Research Day: From Research to Policy and Prevention

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