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Sheryl Spithoff

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Assistant ProfessorClinical Public Health DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Sheryl Spithoff

Assistant Professor

Clinical Public Health Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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16 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (3 SSHRC), most recently in 2023.

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Latest papers

Direct-to-consumer commercial virtual care: a scoping review.
BMJ open · 2026 · first author
Association between alcohol consumption per capita and suicide mortality rate across 30 European countries.
BMJ mental health · 2025
Alcohol Consumption Per Capita and Suicide: A Meta-Analysis.
JAMA network open · 2025

All 22 publications

Latest funding

Pharmaceutical surveillance marketing in Canada: an explication and analysis
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$22,646
Pharmaceutical surveillance marketing in Canada: an explication and analysis
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$12,375
Generating a Portable Policy Framework for Digital Health Equity in Canada
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$147,629

All 8 grants and awards

22 publications.

Direct-to-consumer commercial virtual care: a scoping review.

Spithoff S, Arnott CA, Visanji A, Bhavsar P, Goulem B, Lapointe-Shaw L, Merriman K, Raza D, Xie EC, Hedden L, Abejirinde IO, Motulsky A, Shaw J

BMJ open2026First author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-105555 PMID: 41638747

Association between alcohol consumption per capita and suicide mortality rate across 30 European countries.

Guo K, Jiang H, Shield KD, Spithoff S, Lange S

BMJ mental health2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjment-2025-302114 PMID: 41448838

Alcohol Consumption Per Capita and Suicide: A Meta-Analysis.

Guo K, Jiang H, Shield KD, Spithoff S, Lange S

JAMA network open2025

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.33129 PMID: 40982277

The Primary Care Medical Record Industry in Canada and Its Data Collection and Commercialization Practices.

Spithoff S, Vesely L, McPhail B, Rowe RK, Mogic L, Grundy Q

JAMA network open2025First author

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.7688 PMID: 40323604

How the commercial virtual care industry gathers, uses and values patient data: a Canadian qualitative study

BMJ Open2024First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-074019 PMID: W4392731469

Commercializing Personal Health Information: A Critical Qualitative Content Analysis of Documents Describing Proprietary Primary Care Databases in Canada.

Spithoff S, Grundy Q

International journal of health policy and management2023First author

DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2023.6938 PMID: 37579404

Virtual Visits With Own Family Physician vs Outside Family Physician and Emergency Department Use.

Lapointe-Shaw L, Salahub C, Austin PC, Bai L, Bhatia RS, Bird C, Glazier RH, Hedden L, Ivers NM, Martin D, Shuldiner J, Spithoff S, Tadrous M, Kiran T

JAMA network open2023

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.49452 PMID: 38150254

Palliative care for people who use drugs during communicable disease epidemics and pandemics: A scoping review on access, policies, and programs and guidelines.

Buchman DZ, Lo S, Ding P, Dosani N, Fazelzad R, Furlan AD, Isenberg SR, Spithoff S, Tedesco A, Zimmermann C, Lau J

Palliative medicine2023

DOI: 10.1177/02692163221143153 PMID: 36522840

Evaluation of the gap in delivery of opioid agonist therapy among individuals with opioid-related health problems: a population-based retrospective cohort study.

Paul LA, Bayoumi AM, Chen C, Kocovska E, Smith BT, Raboud JM, Gomes T, Kendall C, Rosella LC, Bitonti-Bengert L, Rush B, Yu M, Spithoff S, Crichlow F, Wright A, Watford J, Besharah J, Munro C, Taha S, Nosyk B, Strike C, Manson H, Kahan M, Leece P

Addiction (Abingdon, England)2023

DOI: 10.1111/add.16096 PMID: 36401610

Characteristics and Health Care Use of Patients Attending Virtual Walk-in Clinics in Ontario, Canada: Cross-sectional Analysis.

Lapointe-Shaw L, Salahub C, Bird C, Bhatia RS, Desveaux L, Glazier RH, Hedden L, Ivers NM, Martin D, Na Y, Spithoff S, Tadrous M, Kiran T

Journal of medical Internet research2023

DOI: 10.2196/40267 PMID: 36633894

Pharmaceutical surveillance marketing in Canada: an explication and analysis

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Spithoff, Sheryl M.

Keywords: surveillance marketing; pharmaceutical industry promotion; electronic medical records; health; ethics; privacy; autonomy; discrimination; biomedicalization; critical approaches

$22,646

Pharmaceutical surveillance marketing in Canada: an explication and analysis

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Spithoff, Sheryl M.

Keywords: surveillance marketing; pharmaceutical industry promotion; electronic medical records; health; ethics; privacy; autonomy; discrimination; biomedicalization; critical approaches

$12,375

Generating a Portable Policy Framework for Digital Health Equity in Canada

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Cat Gr: Policy Research for HST -SPOR-Patient-Oriented Health Care Systems Res.

Principal investigators: Shaw, James A; Bhatia, Rajan S; Tait, Caroline L

Keywords: Digital Health; Health Equity; Health Policy; Health Services And Systems; Intersectionality; Policy Analysis

$147,629

Beyond public payment, private delivery: Understanding how private financing and for-profit delivery operate within Canadian health care

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Cat Gr:Policy Res. for Health Sys. Transf.- Canadian Healthcare Workforce

Principal investigators: Hedden, Lindsay K; Lexchin, Joel

Keywords: For-Profit; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Financing; Health Policy; Privatization

$149,650

The transformation of personal health information into commercial assets: Opportunities, ethics and risks

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Spithoff, Sheryl

Keywords: Personal health information; Big data; Commercialization; Innovation; Ethics; Privacy; Algorithmic bias; Social exclusion; Critical approaches; Biomedicalization perspectives

$66,081

Achieving the quadruple aim and health equity through innovations in opioid use disorder treatment in primary care: A multi-province comparative analysis at the macro and meso levels

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Catalyst Grant: Quadruple Aim and Equity

Principal investigators: Sud, Abhimanyu; Hickcox, Samuel E

Keywords: Barriers To Care; Comparative Analysis; Health Policy; Health Workforce Training; Integration Of Care; Opioid Agonist Therapy; Opioid Use Disorder; Population Health; Primary Care; Quality Of Care

$99,754

Alterations in Prescribing of Opioid Agonist Therapy due to the Pandemic (ALT-POP) Study

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Op Gr: COVID-19 MH & Substance Use - Understanding Rapid System Transformations

Principal investigators: Bayoumi, Ahmed M; Wyman, Jennifer; Young, Samantha V

Keywords: Community-Based; Evaluation; Implementation Science; Multimethod; Opioid Agonist Therapy; Overdose; Treatment Access

$93,723

Palliative Care for People who use Substances During Communicable Disease Epidemics and Pandemics: A Scoping Review

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Operating Grant: Knowledge Synthesis: COVID-19 in Mental Health & Substance Use

Principal investigators: Lau, Jenny; Cory, Shelly; Buchman, Daniel

Keywords: Communicable Diseases; Decision Support; Epidemics; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Knowledge Dissemination; Palliative Care; Pandemics; Scoping Review; Substance Use

$49,500

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Profile data last refreshed on July 30, 2025 from the university directory, publication records and CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding.

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Sheryl Spithoff

Latest papers

Latest funding

Direct-to-consumer commercial virtual care: a scoping review.

Association between alcohol consumption per capita and suicide mortality rate across 30 European countries.

Alcohol Consumption Per Capita and Suicide: A Meta-Analysis.

The Primary Care Medical Record Industry in Canada and Its Data Collection and Commercialization Practices.

How the commercial virtual care industry gathers, uses and values patient data: a Canadian qualitative study

Commercializing Personal Health Information: A Critical Qualitative Content Analysis of Documents Describing Proprietary Primary Care Databases in Canada.

Virtual Visits With Own Family Physician vs Outside Family Physician and Emergency Department Use.

Palliative care for people who use drugs during communicable disease epidemics and pandemics: A scoping review on access, policies, and programs and guidelines.

Evaluation of the gap in delivery of opioid agonist therapy among individuals with opioid-related health problems: a population-based retrospective cohort study.

Characteristics and Health Care Use of Patients Attending Virtual Walk-in Clinics in Ontario, Canada: Cross-sectional Analysis.

Pharmaceutical surveillance marketing in Canada: an explication and analysis

Pharmaceutical surveillance marketing in Canada: an explication and analysis

Generating a Portable Policy Framework for Digital Health Equity in Canada

Beyond public payment, private delivery: Understanding how private financing and for-profit delivery operate within Canadian health care

The transformation of personal health information into commercial assets: Opportunities, ethics and risks

Achieving the quadruple aim and health equity through innovations in opioid use disorder treatment in primary care: A multi-province comparative analysis at the macro and meso levels

Alterations in Prescribing of Opioid Agonist Therapy due to the Pandemic (ALT-POP) Study

Palliative Care for People who use Substances During Communicable Disease Epidemics and Pandemics: A Scoping Review

Frequent collaborators

Pamela Leece

Tara Kiran

Lindsay Hedden

Quinn Grundy

Mina Tadrous

Lindsay Hedden

Lauren Lapointe-Shaw

Frank Sullivan

Camilla Zimmermann

Huan jiang

Tara Gomes

Amber Simpson

Jenny Lau

Shannon Lange

Abhimanyu Sud

Christopher Meaney

Danielle Martin

Maria Mathews

Michael Hamilton

Meredith Vanstone