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Ketan Shankardass

ResearcherHealth SciencesWilfrid Laurier University

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Ketan Shankardass

Researcher

Health Sciences

Wilfrid Laurier University

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
10 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (2 CIHR, 1 SSHRC), most recently in 2025.

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Research

Community-Based Participatory Research Gentrification Neighbourhood Resilience Planning Policy Briefs Renters Awareness Community Discussion

Latest papers

Self-study tool for integrating health equity into Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiatives.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026
Mobilizing community health assets through intersectoral collaboration for social connection: Associations with social support and well-being in a nationwide population-based study in Catalonia.
PloS one · 2025
Generating Contextual Variables From Web-Based Data for Health Research: Tutorial on Web Scraping, Text Mining, and Spatial Overlay Analysis.
JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024

All 40 publications

Latest funding

Smart Citizens Enabling Resilient Neighbourhoods (SCERN): Mobilizing Research to Strengthen Resilience to Gentrification Among Renters Living in Beasley Neighbourhood (Hamilton)
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$20,000
Laurier Wellbeing in Film Forum (LWIFF)
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
$7,990
Violence and Education in Favelas in Rio: The Effect of Crime Exposure on Student Performance in High-Stakes Tests
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
$42,402

All 5 grants and awards

40 publications.

Self-study tool for integrating health equity into Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiatives.

Ragheb C, Shankardass K, Noonan LL

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2026

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-025-01098-2 PMID: 40938509

Mobilizing community health assets through intersectoral collaboration for social connection: Associations with social support and well-being in a nationwide population-based study in Catalonia.

Galvez-Hernandez P, Shankardass K, Puts M, Tourangeau A, Gonzalez-de Paz L, Gonzalez-Viana A, Muntaner C

PloS one2025

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0320317 PMID: 40138367

Generating Contextual Variables From Web-Based Data for Health Research: Tutorial on Web Scraping, Text Mining, and Spatial Overlay Analysis.

Galvez-Hernandez P, Gonzalez-Viana A, Gonzalez-de Paz L, Shankardass K, Muntaner C

JMIR public health and surveillance2024

DOI: 10.2196/50379 PMID: 38190245

Tools for local health in all policies implementation: evidence from an explanatory case study of Kuopio, Finland.

Guglielmin M, Shankardass K, Bayoumi A, O'campo P, Kokkinen L, Muntaner C

Scandinavian journal of public health2023

DOI: 10.1177/14034948221090076 PMID: 35766538

Sustainable Smart Cities-Social Media Platforms and Their Role in Community Neighborhood Resilience-A Systematic Review.

Balakrishnan S, Elayan S, Sykora M, Solter M, Feick R, Hewitt C, Liu YQ, Shankardass K

International journal of environmental research and public health2023Senior author

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20186720 PMID: 37754579

The Role of Social Media in Building Pandemic Resilience in an Urban Community: A Qualitative Case Study.

George JO, Elayan S, Sykora M, Solter M, Feick R, Hewitt C, Liu Y, Shankardass K

International journal of environmental research and public health2023Senior author

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20176707 PMID: 37681847

Developing a Research Agenda for HiAP Implementation: A Response to the Recent Commentaries.

Guglielmin M, Shankardass K, O'Campo P, Bayoumi AM, Kokkinen L, Muntaner C

International journal of health policy and management2023

DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2023.8326 PMID: 38618764

A Realist Explanatory Case Study Investigating How Common Goals, Leadership, and Committed Staff Facilitate Health in All Policies Implementation in the Municipality of Kuopio, Finland.

Guglielmin M, Shankardass K, Bayoumi A, O'Campo P, Kokkinen L, Muntaner C

International journal of health policy and management2022

DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2022.6355 PMID: 35247936

How and why buy-in for health in all policies was facilitated in Ecuador: a realist case study of Plan Nacional para el Buen Vivir.

Mahabir DF, Shankardass K, Freiler A, O'Campo P, Brisbois B, Muntaner C

International journal for equity in health2022

DOI: 10.1186/s12939-022-01703-7 PMID: 35971174

Opportunities and challenges of using social media big data to assess mental health consequences of the COVID-19 crisis and future major events.

Tušl M, Thelen A, Marcus K, Peters A, Shalaeva E, Scheckel B, Sykora M, Elayan S, Naslund JA, Shankardass K, Mooney SJ, Fadda M, Gruebner O

Discover mental health2022

DOI: 10.1007/s44192-022-00017-y PMID: 35789666

Smart Citizens Enabling Resilient Neighbourhoods (SCERN): Mobilizing Research to Strengthen Resilience to Gentrification Among Renters Living in Beasley Neighbourhood (Hamilton)

Nominated PICIHR2025Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Shankardass, Ketan

Keywords: Community-Based Participatory Research; Gentrification; Neighbourhood Resilience Planning; Policy Briefs; Renters

$20,000

Laurier Wellbeing in Film Forum (LWIFF)

Nominated PICIHR2023CIHR Café Scientifique Program - Institute of Population and Public Health

Principal investigators: Shankardass, Ketan

Keywords: Awareness; Community; Discussion; Engagement; Equity; Film; Population Health; Social Determinants Of Health; Structural Determinants Of Health; Wellbeing

$7,990

Violence and Education in Favelas in Rio: The Effect of Crime Exposure on Student Performance in High-Stakes Tests

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022SSHRC Doctoral Awards

Principal investigators: Grigoryeva, Idaliya

Keywords: crime exposure; educational outcomes; student test performance; high-stakes tests; violence exposure; urban crime; university entrance exams; human capital accumulation; Rio Favelas; slum dwellers; slum development

$42,402

Smart Citizens Enabling Resilient Neighbourhoods (SCERN) for Equitable and Inclusive Post-pandemic Futures

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021New Frontiers in Research Fund - Special Call

Principal investigators: Shankardass, Ketan

Keywords: resilience planning social media analysis equity chronic stress citizen science information science participatory mapping

$237,970

Integrating social media, geospatial information, and sentiment analysis for the analysis of emotional stress in urban environments

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013

Principal investigators: Robertson, Colin

Keywords: stress; social media; place; urban sensing; place-space; computational linguistics; geographical analysis

$199,896

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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Ketan Shankardass

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Self-study tool for integrating health equity into Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiatives.

Mobilizing community health assets through intersectoral collaboration for social connection: Associations with social support and well-being in a nationwide population-based study in Catalonia.

Generating Contextual Variables From Web-Based Data for Health Research: Tutorial on Web Scraping, Text Mining, and Spatial Overlay Analysis.

Tools for local health in all policies implementation: evidence from an explanatory case study of Kuopio, Finland.

Sustainable Smart Cities-Social Media Platforms and Their Role in Community Neighborhood Resilience-A Systematic Review.

The Role of Social Media in Building Pandemic Resilience in an Urban Community: A Qualitative Case Study.

Developing a Research Agenda for HiAP Implementation: A Response to the Recent Commentaries.

A Realist Explanatory Case Study Investigating How Common Goals, Leadership, and Committed Staff Facilitate Health in All Policies Implementation in the Municipality of Kuopio, Finland.

How and why buy-in for health in all policies was facilitated in Ecuador: a realist case study of Plan Nacional para el Buen Vivir.

Opportunities and challenges of using social media big data to assess mental health consequences of the COVID-19 crisis and future major events.

Smart Citizens Enabling Resilient Neighbourhoods (SCERN): Mobilizing Research to Strengthen Resilience to Gentrification Among Renters Living in Beasley Neighbourhood (Hamilton)

Laurier Wellbeing in Film Forum (LWIFF)

Violence and Education in Favelas in Rio: The Effect of Crime Exposure on Student Performance in High-Stakes Tests

Smart Citizens Enabling Resilient Neighbourhoods (SCERN) for Equitable and Inclusive Post-pandemic Futures

Integrating social media, geospatial information, and sentiment analysis for the analysis of emotional stress in urban environments

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