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Cary Wu

ResearcherYork University

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Cary Wu

Researcher

Health Sciences

York University

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
20 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 5 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (2 SSHRC, 1 CIHR), most recently in 2022.

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Research

Social, Cultural, Environmental And Population Health

Latest papers

Gender and self-rated mental health: an integrative approach.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026 · senior author
Did anti-Asian racism decrease after the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada?
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026 · senior author
Self-Defined Gender Identities and Physical Activity Among Men and Women in Europe.
Journal of physical activity & health · 2025 · senior author

All 25 publications

Latest funding

Trust and the political sociology of health
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$134,893
Geopolitics of anti-Asian racism in times of COVID-19
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
$138,928
Geopolitics of anti-Asian racism in times of COVID-19
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
$64,818

All 7 grants and awards

25 publications.

Gender and self-rated mental health: an integrative approach.

Sher C, Pechenkov IG, Wu C

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2026Senior author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-025-01141-2 PMID: 41381812

Did anti-Asian racism decrease after the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada?

Chen S, Wu C

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2026Senior author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-025-01096-4 PMID: 40932561

Self-Defined Gender Identities and Physical Activity Among Men and Women in Europe.

Sher C, Ong J, Yurchi A, Aspra Rubi J, Wu C

Journal of physical activity & health2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1123/jpah.2025-0281 PMID: 40840555

Is democracy good for your health?

Wu C

QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians2025First author

DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcaf034 PMID: 39901322

A social price to the rising cost of living? The bidirectional relationship between inflation and trust.

Wu C, Bierman A, Schieman S

Canadian review of sociology = Revue canadienne de sociologie2025First author

DOI: 10.1111/cars.12481 PMID: 39155433

Suicides in China's scientific community: A call for a public health response.

Wu C, Ai X, Li M, Cao J, Sun Y, Gao Y, Gong Z

Preventive medicine reports2025First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2025.103054 PMID: 40242001

The reliability of replications: a study in computational reproductions.

Breznau N, Rinke EM, Wuttke A, Adem M, Adriaans J, Akdeniz E, Alvarez-Benjumea A, Andersen HK, Auer D, Azevedo F, Bahnsen O, Bai L, Balzer D, Bauer PC, Bauer G, Baumann M, Baute S, Benoit V, Bernauer J, Berning C, Berthold A, Bethke FS, Biegert T, Blinzler K, Blumenberg JN, Bobzien L, Bohman A, Bol T, Bostic A, Brzozowska Z, Burgdorf K, Burger K, Busch K, Castillo JC, Chan N, Christmann P, Connelly R, Czymara CS, Damian E, de Rooij EA, Ecker A, Edelmann A, Eder C, Eger MA, Ellerbrock S, Forke A, Forster A, Freire D, Gaasendam C, Gavras K, Gayle V, Gessler T, Gnambs T, Godefroidt A, Grömping M, Groß M, Gruber S, Gummer T, Hadjar A, Halbherr V, Heisig JP, Hellmeier S, Heyne S, Hirsch M, Hjerm M, Hochman O, Höffler JH, Hövermann A, Hunger S, Hunkler C, Huth-Stöckle N, Ignácz ZS, Israel S, Jacobs L, Jacobsen J, Jaeger B, Jungkunz S, Jungmann N, Kanjana J, Kauff M, Khan S, Khatua S, Kleinert M, Klinger J, Kolb JP, Kołczyńska M, Kuk J, Kunißen K, Kurti Sinatra D, Langenkamp A, Lee RC, Lersch PM, Liu D, Löbel LM, Lutscher P, Mader M, Madia JE, Malancu N, Maldonado L, Marahrens H, Martin N, Martinez P, Mayerl J, Mayorga OJ, McDonnell R, McManus P, McWagner K, Meeusen C, Meierrieks D, Mellon J, Merhout F, Merk S, Meyer D, Micheli L, Mijs J, Moya C, Neunhoeffer M, Nüst D, Nygård O, Ochsenfeld F, Otte G, Pechenkina A, Pickup M, Prosser C, Raes L, Ralston K, Ramos M, Reichert F, Roets A, Rogers J, Ropers G, Samuel R, Sand G, Sanhueza Petrarca C, Schachter A, Schaeffer M, Schieferdecker D, Schlueter E, Schmidt K, Schmidt R, Schmidt-Catran A, Schmiedeberg C, Schneider J, Schoonvelde M, Schulte-Cloos J, Schumann S, Schunck R, Seuring J, Silber H, Sleegers W, Sonntag N, Staudt A, Steiber N, Steiner ND, Sternberg S, Stiers D, Stojmenovska D, Storz N, Striessnig E, Stroppe AK, Suchow JW, Teltemann J, Tibajev A, Tung B, Vagni G, Van Assche J, van der Linden M, van der Noll J, Van Hootegem A, Vogtenhuber S, Voicu B, Wagemans F, Wehl N, Werner H, Wiernik BM, Winter F, Wolf C, Wu C, Yamada Y, Zakula B, Zhang N, Ziller C, Zins S, Żółtak T, Nguyen HHV

Royal Society open science2025

DOI: 10.1098/rsos.241038 PMID: 40109936

Wildlife policy, the food system and One Health: a complex systems analysis of unintended consequences for the prevention of emerging zoonoses in China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Philippines.

Clifford Astbury C, Demeshko A, Aguilar R, Mapatano MA, Li A, Togño KC, Shi Z, Wang Z, Wu C, Yambayamba MK, Carabin H, Clarke J, De Leon V, Desai S, Gallo-Cajiao E, Lee KM, Sivapragasam K, Wiktorowicz M, Penney TL

BMJ global health2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-016313 PMID: 39809527

A triple trust penalty? The majority-minority gap in subjective wellbeing.

Wu C, Kawachi I

Social science & medicine (1982)2024First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117371 PMID: 39366152

The Trump Effect? Right-Wing Populism and Distrust in Voting by Mail in Canada.

Wu C, Dawson A

Public opinion quarterly2024First author

DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfae020 PMID: 39109093

Trust and the political sociology of health

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Wu, Cary

Keywords: political sociology; trust; population health; health inequality

$134,893

Geopolitics of anti-Asian racism in times of COVID-19

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Chaufan, Claudia

Keywords: geopolitics; racism; anti-Asian; equity; critical social studies; critical communication studies; multiple case study methodology; mixed methods; critical discourse studies; public opinion research

$138,928

Geopolitics of anti-Asian racism in times of COVID-19

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Chaufan, Claudia

$64,818

Trust and the political sociology of health

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Wu, Cary

Keywords: political sociology; trust; population health; health inequality

$38,971

Evaluating the Governance of Emergent Pandemic Zoonoses: A Systems and Legal Analysis of Wildlife Markets

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Op Grant: COVID-19 Rapid Research FO - Social Policy and Public Health Responses

Principal investigators: Penney, Tarra L; Wiktorowicz, Mary E

Keywords: Food Systems; Global Governance; Legal Epidemiology

$446,912

The dynamics of trust before, during, and after the COVID-19 outbreak

Nominated PICIHR2020Operating Grant: COVID-19 - Social dynamics, communication and trust

Principal investigators: Wu, Cary

Keywords: Social, Cultural, Environmental And Population Health

$176,256

Myth or Reality? Examining Parent-Child Income Assistance Use in Ontario, Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Smith-Carrier, Tracy A.

Keywords: social assistance; intergenerational transmission; quantitative research; welfare

$72,570

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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Cary Wu

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Gender and self-rated mental health: an integrative approach.

Did anti-Asian racism decrease after the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada?

Self-Defined Gender Identities and Physical Activity Among Men and Women in Europe.

Is democracy good for your health?

A social price to the rising cost of living? The bidirectional relationship between inflation and trust.

Suicides in China's scientific community: A call for a public health response.

The reliability of replications: a study in computational reproductions.

Wildlife policy, the food system and One Health: a complex systems analysis of unintended consequences for the prevention of emerging zoonoses in China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Philippines.

A triple trust penalty? The majority-minority gap in subjective wellbeing.

The Trump Effect? Right-Wing Populism and Distrust in Voting by Mail in Canada.

Trust and the political sociology of health

Geopolitics of anti-Asian racism in times of COVID-19

Geopolitics of anti-Asian racism in times of COVID-19

Trust and the political sociology of health

Evaluating the Governance of Emergent Pandemic Zoonoses: A Systems and Legal Analysis of Wildlife Markets

The dynamics of trust before, during, and after the COVID-19 outbreak

Myth or Reality? Examining Parent-Child Income Assistance Use in Ontario, Canada

Frequent collaborators

Scott Schieman

Yue Qian

Tarra Penney

Chloe Clifford Astbury

Shital Desai

Arjumand Siddiqi

Mary Wiktorowicz