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Vivek Goel

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Professor EmeritusClinical Public Health DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Vivek Goel

Professor Emeritus

Clinical Public Health Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Emeritus professors are retired and rarely take new students.
8 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (3 CIHR), most recently in 2020.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2010.

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Publications

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Research

Edi

Latest papers

Drivers of online abuse against Canadian public health officials: An LLM-based temporal analysis.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026
Association of loneliness with healthcare transitions and mortality in older adults in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective cohort study.
BMJ open · 2025
Sex-based trajectories of health system use in lonely and not lonely older people: A population-based cohort study.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024

All 26 publications

Latest funding

EDI Stipend
CIHR · 2020 · Nominated PI
$19,500
Canadian International COVID-19 Surveillance Border Study
CIHR · 2020 · Principal investigator
$2,500,000
Understanding the burden and health system impact of loneliness and social isolation in older adults in Canada
CIHR · 2018 · Co-investigator
$325,124

All 10 grants and awards

26 publications.

Drivers of online abuse against Canadian public health officials: An LLM-based temporal analysis.

Moghaddam SH, Regehr C, Lyons K, Goel V, Regehr K

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2026

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-026-01219-5 PMID: 42213299

Association of loneliness with healthcare transitions and mortality in older adults in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective cohort study.

Savage RD, Sutradhar R, Luo J, Strauss R, Guan J, Rochon PA, Gruneir A, Sanmartin C, Goel V, Rosella LC, Stall NM, Chamberlain SA, Yu C, Altaf A, Bronskill SE

BMJ open2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087804 PMID: 40262951

Sex-based trajectories of health system use in lonely and not lonely older people: A population-based cohort study.

Savage RD, Sutradhar R, Luo J, Strauss R, Guan J, Rochon PA, Gruneir A, Sanmartin C, Goel V, Rosella LC, Stall NM, Chamberlain SA, Yu C, Bronskill SE

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society2024

DOI: 10.1111/jgs.18833 PMID: 38407328

Workplace violence in the COVID-19 era: a qualitative analysis of harassment and threats against public health professionals in Canada.

Regehr C, Regehr K, Goel V, Sato C, Lyons K, Rudzicz F

BMJ public health2023

DOI: 10.1136/bmjph-2023-000444 PMID: 40017857

Cohort Profile: The Ontario Health Study (OHS).

Kirsh VA, Skead K, McDonald K, Kreiger N, Little J, Menard K, McLaughlin J, Mukherjee S, Palmer LJ, Goel V, Purdue MP, Awadalla P

International journal of epidemiology2023

DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyac156 PMID: 35962976

Downstream health impacts of employment losses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Buajitti E, Rosella LC, Bryan K, Giesinger I, Goel V

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2022Senior author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-021-00588-3 PMID: 34874548

The Factors Associated With Nonuse of Social Media or Video Communications to Connect With Friends and Family During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Older Adults: Web-Based Survey Study.

Savage RD, Di Nicolo S, Wu W, Li J, Lawson A, Grieve J, Goel V, Rochon PA

JMIR aging2022

DOI: 10.2196/34793 PMID: 35344502

Is life satisfaction associated with future mental health service use? An observational population-based cohort study.

Michalski CA, Diemert LM, Hurst M, Goel V, Rosella LC

BMJ open2022

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050057 PMID: 35487704

The Economic and Long-Term Health Consequences of Canadian COVID-19 Lockdowns.

Bryan KA, Buajitti E, Rosella LC, Goel V

Canadian public policy. Analyse de politiques2021Senior author

DOI: 10.3138/cpp.2020-134 PMID: 36039317

“AI’s gonna have an impact on everything in society, so it has to have an impact on public health”: a fundamental qualitative descriptive study of the implications of artificial intelligence for public health

Morgenstern JD, Rosella LC, Daley MJ, Goel V, Schünemann HJ, Piggott T

BMC International Health and Human Rights2021101 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-10030-x PMID: W3120759169

EDI Stipend

Nominated PICIHR2020Chair: Canada Research Chairs Program Institutional Equity Stipend

Principal investigators: Goel, Vivek

Keywords: Edi

$19,500

Canadian International COVID-19 Surveillance Border Study

Principal investigatorCIHR2020Canadian International COVID-19 Surveillance Border Study

Principal investigators: Smieja, Marek J; Goel, Vivek

Keywords: Covid

$2,500,000

Understanding the burden and health system impact of loneliness and social isolation in older adults in Canada

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Bronskill, Susan E; Rochon, Paula A

Keywords: Aging; Health Administrative Data; Health Services Research; Loneliness; Older Adults; Older Women; Sex And Gender; Social Isolation

$325,124

Exploring the role of Artificial Intelligence in Population Risk Prediction

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Planning/Dissemination Grants - IPPH - ICS - Artificial Intelligence - General

Principal investigators: Rosella, Laura C; Manuel, Douglas G

Keywords: Artifical Intellegence; Chronic Disease; Deep Learning; Health Promotion; Machine Learning; Population Health; Risk Prediction; Unstructured Data

$20,000

Developing Measures for the Impact of Knowledge Organizations

Co-investigatorCIHR2011Planning Grants-Priority Announcement:Partnerships for Health System Improvement

Principal investigators: Tyler, Ingrid

Keywords: Health Services Research; Health System; Impact Evaluation; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Knowledge Organization; Perfomance Indicators; Performance Management; Public Health

$24,900

The built environment and risk of cardiovascular disease: a population-based study in Ontario

SupervisorCIHR2010CIHR Fellowship

Principal investigators: Chiu, Maria

Keywords: Cardiovascular Disease; Determinants Of Health; Epidemiology; Health Care And Health Services; Population Health; Race/Ethnicity

$90,000

Assessment of Factors Associated with School Compliance with Ministry of Health pH1N1 Guidelines During Wave Two of Ontario's Influenza Pandemic

Nominated PICIHR2010Operating Grant: Health Systems Research on H1N1

Principal investigators: Goel, Vivek; Sider, Douglas

Keywords: Compliance With Guidelines; Elementary/High Schools; Infection Prevention And Control; Pandemic Influenza 2009; Qualitative Research

$56,117

The use of evidence in developing public health policies for H1N1

Co-investigatorCIHR2010Operating Grant: Health Systems Research on H1N1

Principal investigators: Crowcroft, Natasha S

Keywords: Decision-Making; Evidence; Knowledge Tranlsation; Pandemic H1n1; Public Health Policy; Public Health System

$97,656

Facilitating access to health data for research and planning in light of laws and ethical norms

Co-investigatorCIHR2009Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Willison, Donald J; El Emam, Khaled; Gibson, Elaine

Keywords: Biobanks; Confidentiality; Consent; Data Quality; Databases; Electronic Health Records; Person-Level Data; Privacy; Procedural & Statistical; Registries; Research Governance; Safeguards

$642,115

CIHR StrategicTraining Grant in Public Health Policy

Co-investigatorCIHR2008Training Grant

Principal investigators: Cohen, Joanna E; Schwartz, Robert M

Keywords: Interdisciplinary Training Program; Public Health Policy Analysis; Public Health Policy Determinants; Public Health Policy Evaluation; Qualitative And Quantitative Methodologies

$1,784,790

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

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Vivek Goel

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Drivers of online abuse against Canadian public health officials: An LLM-based temporal analysis.

Association of loneliness with healthcare transitions and mortality in older adults in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective cohort study.

Sex-based trajectories of health system use in lonely and not lonely older people: A population-based cohort study.

Workplace violence in the COVID-19 era: a qualitative analysis of harassment and threats against public health professionals in Canada.

Cohort Profile: The Ontario Health Study (OHS).

Downstream health impacts of employment losses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Factors Associated With Nonuse of Social Media or Video Communications to Connect With Friends and Family During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Older Adults: Web-Based Survey Study.

Is life satisfaction associated with future mental health service use? An observational population-based cohort study.

The Economic and Long-Term Health Consequences of Canadian COVID-19 Lockdowns.

“AI’s gonna have an impact on everything in society, so it has to have an impact on public health”: a fundamental qualitative descriptive study of the implications of artificial intelligence for public health

Frequent collaborators

Cheryl Regehr

Rinku Sutradhar

Dominik Mertz

Thomas Piggott

Marek Smieja

Andrea Gruneir

Andrea Gruneir

Kumanan Wilson

Jordan Tustin

Anna Gagliardi

Brian Schwartz

Terrence Sullivan

Holger Schunemann

Anna Gagliardi

Julian Little

Adalsteinn Brown

Susan Jaglal

Philip Awadalla

Frank Rudzicz

Ross Upshur

Jeremy Petch