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Stephen Hwang

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ProfessorDepartment of MedicineUniversity of Toronto

Stephen Hwang

Professor

Department of Medicine

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Homelessness, Housing and Health

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4 publications in the last five years, latest in 2022.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 12 research grants (12 CIHR), most recently in 2026.
Supervised 5 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2023.

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Publications

128

Citations

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Collaborators

Grants

Publications by year

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Education

MPH
MD
BA, Biochemistry

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Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Toronto profile.

Public and population health Health care access, privilege or marginalization Health care safety and quality improvement Urban sociology and community studies

Latest papers

Navigator programme for hospitalised adults experiencing homelessness: protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.
BMJ open · 2022 · senior author
Providing Housing First services for an underserved population during the early wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.
PloS one · 2022 · senior author
Evaluating the Impact of a Critical Time Intervention Adaptation on Health Care Utilization among Homeless Adults with Mental Health Needs in a Large Urban Center.
Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2022

All 17 publications

Latest funding

Recuperative Environment for Safer Transitions after hospitalization for people experiencing HOMElessness (REST-HOME) Trial
CIHR · 2026 · Nominated PI
$742,051
The Toronto Youth Equity and Substances (TYES) Study: Investigating Substance Use-Related Social and Clinical Outcomes among Youth Experiencing Homelessness
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$1,591,200
Co-creating an equity-informed protocol to screen for traumatic brain injury in underserved populations
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$294,526

All 61 grants and awards

17 publications.

Navigator programme for hospitalised adults experiencing homelessness: protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

Liu M, Pridham KF, Jenkinson J, Nisenbaum R, Richard L, Pedersen C, Brown R, Virani S, Ellerington F, Ranieri A, Dada O, To M, Fabreau G, McBrien K, Stergiopoulos V, Palepu A, Hwang S

BMJ open2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065688 PMID: 36517099

Providing Housing First services for an underserved population during the early wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.

Mejia-Lancheros C, Lachaud J, Gogosis E, Thulien N, Stergiopoulos V, Da Silva G, Nisenbaum R, O'Campo P, Hwang S

PloS one2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278459 PMID: 36454981

Evaluating the Impact of a Critical Time Intervention Adaptation on Health Care Utilization among Homeless Adults with Mental Health Needs in a Large Urban Center.

Reid N, Mason J, Kurdyak P, Nisenbaum R, de Oliveira C, Hwang S, Stergiopoulos V

Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie2022

DOI: 10.1177/0706743721996114 PMID: 33611924

Phenobarbital for the management of severe acute alcohol withdrawal (the PHENOMANAL trial): a pilot randomized controlled trial

Filewod N, Hwang S, Turner CJ, Rizvi L, Gray S, Klaiman M, Buell D, Ailon J, Caudarella A, Ginocchio GF

Pilot and Feasibility Studies20224 citations

DOI: 10.1186/s40814-021-00963-4

Advancing health equity in cancer care: The lived experiences of poverty and access to lung cancer screening.

Sayani A, Vahabi M, O'Brien MA, Liu G, Hwang S, Selby P, Nicholson E, Giuliani M, Eng L, Lofters A

PloS one2021

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251264 PMID: 33956861

Effect of a Housing Intervention on Selected Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Homeless Adults With Mental Illness: 24-Month Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Chum A, Wang R, Nisenbaum R, O'Campo P, Stergiopoulos V, Hwang S

Journal of the American Heart Association2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1161/jaha.119.016896 PMID: 32975159

Clinical guideline for homeless and vulnerably housed people, and people with lived homelessness experience

Pottie K, Kendall CE, Aubry T, Magwood O, Andermann A, Salvalaggio G, Ponka D, Bloch G, Brcic V, Agbata E

CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL202097 citations

DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.190777

Clinical guideline for homeless and vulnerably housed people, and people with lived homelessness experience

Pottie K, Kendall CE, Aubry T, Magwood O, Andermann A, Salvalaggio G, Ponka D, Bloch G, Brcic V, Agbata E

CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL20203 citations

DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.190777-f

Residential moves and its association with substance use, healthcare needs, and acute care use among homeless and vulnerably housed persons in Canada.

Harris M, Gadermann A, Norena M, To M, Hubley AM, Aubry T, Hwang S, Palepu A

International journal of public health2019

DOI: 10.1007/s00038-018-1167-6 PMID: 30382287

Health outcomes related to the provision of free, tangible goods: A systematic review.

Persaud N, Steiner L, Woods H, Aratangy T, Wanigaratne S, Polsky J, Hwang S, Chahal G, Pinto A

PloS one2019

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213845 PMID: 30893372

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Stephen Hwang

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Navigator programme for hospitalised adults experiencing homelessness: protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

Providing Housing First services for an underserved population during the early wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.

Evaluating the Impact of a Critical Time Intervention Adaptation on Health Care Utilization among Homeless Adults with Mental Health Needs in a Large Urban Center.

Phenobarbital for the management of severe acute alcohol withdrawal (the PHENOMANAL trial): a pilot randomized controlled trial

Advancing health equity in cancer care: The lived experiences of poverty and access to lung cancer screening.

Effect of a Housing Intervention on Selected Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Homeless Adults With Mental Illness: 24-Month Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Clinical guideline for homeless and vulnerably housed people, and people with lived homelessness experience

Clinical guideline for homeless and vulnerably housed people, and people with lived homelessness experience

Residential moves and its association with substance use, healthcare needs, and acute care use among homeless and vulnerably housed persons in Canada.

Health outcomes related to the provision of free, tangible goods: A systematic review.

Frequent collaborators

Vicky Stergiopoulos

Vicky Stergiopoulos

Rosane Nisenbaum

Tim Aubry

Anne Gadermann

Patricia O’Campo

Ginetta Salvalaggio

Esther Shoemaker

Kednapa Thavorn

David Ponka

Kednapa Thavorn

Peter Tugwell

Nicole Kozloff

Kevin Pottie

Vicky Stergiopoulos

Wendy Muckle

Kednapa Thavorn

Peter Tugwell

Kednapa Thavorn

Thomas Piggott

Meredith Giuliani

Dale Guenter

Karen Burns

Geoffrey Liu

Sean Rourke