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Sarah Flicker

ResearcherYork University

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Sarah Flicker

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.
9 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 13 research grants (8 CIHR, 5 SSHRC), most recently in 2026.
Supervised 9 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2025.

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Publications

145

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Research

Hiv/Aids Sexual Health Adolescent Equity Lgbtq,Race School-Based Intervention Sex And Gender

Latest papers

A Mobile App (MyPeer) Co-Designed With Immigrant Adolescents for Better Sexual and Reproductive Health: Usability Study.
JMIR formative research · 2025
Between cultures and traditions: a qualitative investigation of sexual and reproductive health experiences of immigrant adolescents in Canada.
Culture, health & sexuality · 2025
Uncovering the impact of infection routes on within-host MPXV dynamics: Insights from a mathematical modeling study.
PLoS computational biology · 2025

All 30 publications

Latest funding

Performing Prevention Pedagogies: Exploring the Use of Theatre for Sex Education with Pre-Service Teachers
SSHRC · 2026 · Principal investigator
$94,923
Performing Gender and Health: A Multimedia Book and Film Project by SExT Peer Mentors
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$49,960
Youth Community Engagement for Gender Transformation in Global Health: A Critical and Decolonial Mobilization for Health Equity
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$140,000

All 35 grants and awards

30 publications.

A Mobile App (MyPeer) Co-Designed With Immigrant Adolescents for Better Sexual and Reproductive Health: Usability Study.

Meherali S, Rehmani AI, Ahmad M, Scott-Fiddler P, Pinzón-Hernández P, Khan Z, Flicker S, Okeke-Ihejirika P, Salami B, Stroulia E, Vandermorris A, Pui-Hing Wong J, Norman WV, Scott SD, Munro S

JMIR formative research2025

DOI: 10.2196/81115 PMID: 41447463

Between cultures and traditions: a qualitative investigation of sexual and reproductive health experiences of immigrant adolescents in Canada.

Meherali S, Rehmani AI, Ahmad M, Kauser S, Scott Fiddler P, Pinzon-Hernandez P, Khan Z, Flicker S, Okeke-Ihejirika P, Salami B, Stroulia E, Vandermorris A, Wong J, Norman W, Scott S, Munro S

Culture, health & sexuality2025

DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2436677 PMID: 39648708

Uncovering the impact of infection routes on within-host MPXV dynamics: Insights from a mathematical modeling study.

Deng Q, Woldegerima WA, Zhang W, Asgary A, Kong JD, Flicker S, Ogden NH, Orbinski J, Bragazzi NL, Wu J

PLoS computational biology2025

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013073 PMID: 40388391

Modelling prevalent cardiovascular disease in an urban Indigenous population.

Avery L, Maddox R, Abtan R, Wong O, Rotondi NK, McConkey S, Bourgeois C, McKnight C, Wolfe S, Flicker S, Macpherson A, Smylie J, Rotondi M

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2024

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-022-00669-x PMID: 35945472

'This is what's going to heal our kids': bringing the Sexy Health Carnival into Indigenous cultural gatherings.

Native Youth Sexual Health Network, Lesperance A, Kendrick CT, Flicker S

Culture, health & sexuality2023

DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2022.2105402 PMID: 36271886

Co-designing a Sexual Health App With Immigrant Adolescents: Protocol for a Qualitative Community-Based Participatory Action Research Study.

Meherali S, Munro S, Puinean G, Salami B, Wong JP, Vandermorris A, Benoit JRA, Flicker S, Okeke-Ihejirika P, Stroulia E, Norman WV, Scott SD

JMIR research protocols2023

DOI: 10.2196/45389 PMID: 36947124

"Make sure I hear snoring": Adolescent girls, trans, and non-binary youth using sound for sexual wellbeing boundary-making at home during COVID-19.

Coppella LI, Flicker S, Goldstein A

Wellbeing, space and society2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.wss.2022.100117 PMID: 36466112

Quilted cellphilm method: A participatory visual health research method for working with marginalised and stigmatised communities.

MacEntee K, Kendrick C, Flicker S

Global public health2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2021.1928262 PMID: 34044745

Staying safe: how young women who trade sex in Toronto navigate risk and harm reduction.

Kendrick CT, MacEntee K, Wilson CL, Flicker S

Culture, health & sexuality2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2021.1900603 PMID: 33819132

Visualizing DEPICT: A Multistep Model for Participatory Analysis in Photovoice Research for Social Change.

Switzer S, Flicker S

Health promotion practice2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/15248399211045017 PMID: 34664518

Performing Prevention Pedagogies: Exploring the Use of Theatre for Sex Education with Pre-Service Teachers

Principal investigatorSSHRC2026Insight Development Grants

Principal investigators: Flicker, Sarah

$94,923

Performing Gender and Health: A Multimedia Book and Film Project by SExT Peer Mentors

Nominated PICIHR2025Planning and Dissemination Grants - Institute/Initiative Community Support

Principal investigators: Flicker, Sarah; Taylor, Shira

Keywords: Adolescent; Equity; Lgbtq,; Race; School-Based Intervention; Sex And Gender; Sexual Heath Promotion

$49,960

Youth Community Engagement for Gender Transformation in Global Health: A Critical and Decolonial Mobilization for Health Equity

SupervisorCIHR2025Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) program

Principal investigators: Fortin, Geneviève

Keywords: Community Mobilization; Decoloniality; Gender Equality; Gender Norms; Gender Transformation; Global Health; Health Inequities; Youth Community Engagement

$140,000

Capturing care work: Making visible women's emotional work in families through participatory video

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Smoliak, Olga A.

Keywords: emotion work; gender; family; participatory inquiry; cellphilming; qualitative

$61,289

Friends-First Initiation as a Foundation for Egalitarian and Satisfying Romantic Relationships

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Cameron, Jessica J.

Keywords: relationship initiation; friendship; relationship quality

$52,428

TRANSFORM: Engaging with Youth for Social Change

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Partnership Grants

Keywords: Gender-transformation; Agency; Images; Visual Methodologies; Transnational; Feminist; Youth-led; Intergenerationality; Decoloniality

$500,000

Modelling, predicting and risk assessment of mpox (monkeypox) and other (re)emerging zoonotic threats to inform decision-making and public health actions: mathematical, geospatial and machine learning approaches

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Team Grant: Mpox and zoonotic threats - Social and behavioural science

Principal investigators: Woldegerima, Woldegebriel Assefa

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Behavioural, Social-Economic, Environmental & Climate Infleu; Biobehavioral Data And Modelling; Control Interventions And Risk Factors; Data-Driven, Mathematical And Statistical Models; Epidemiological And Geospatial Modeling; Inform Public Health Decision-Making; Monkeypox, Zoonotic Threat And Intrusion With Stbbi; Risk Maps Assessment; Sex-And Gender-Based Analysis, Msm Community

$480,000

TRANSFORM: Engaging with Youth for Social Change

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Partnership Grants

Keywords: gender-transformation; agency; images; transnational; feminist; youth-led; intergenerationality; decolonization

$75,000

Let's get Sexfluent! Exploring New Models for Modernizing Youth HIV Resources in Canada

Nominated PICIHR2022Catalyst Grant: HIV/AIDS CBR Program - General Stream

Principal investigators: Flicker, Sarah; Ma, Roxanne

Keywords: Gender And Health; Hiv/Aids; Sexual Health; Stbbi; Virtual Health Promotion; Youth Health

$100,000

Living Memories: Community-based Storytelling of Indigenous and Black Histories and Realities in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Wilson, Ciann Larose

Keywords: Indigenous; Black; community-based research; oral history; art-based research

$94,121

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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Sarah Flicker

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

A Mobile App (MyPeer) Co-Designed With Immigrant Adolescents for Better Sexual and Reproductive Health: Usability Study.

Between cultures and traditions: a qualitative investigation of sexual and reproductive health experiences of immigrant adolescents in Canada.

Uncovering the impact of infection routes on within-host MPXV dynamics: Insights from a mathematical modeling study.

Modelling prevalent cardiovascular disease in an urban Indigenous population.

'This is what's going to heal our kids': bringing the Sexy Health Carnival into Indigenous cultural gatherings.

Co-designing a Sexual Health App With Immigrant Adolescents: Protocol for a Qualitative Community-Based Participatory Action Research Study.

"Make sure I hear snoring": Adolescent girls, trans, and non-binary youth using sound for sexual wellbeing boundary-making at home during COVID-19.

Quilted cellphilm method: A participatory visual health research method for working with marginalised and stigmatised communities.

Staying safe: how young women who trade sex in Toronto navigate risk and harm reduction.

Visualizing DEPICT: A Multistep Model for Participatory Analysis in Photovoice Research for Social Change.

Performing Prevention Pedagogies: Exploring the Use of Theatre for Sex Education with Pre-Service Teachers

Performing Gender and Health: A Multimedia Book and Film Project by SExT Peer Mentors

Youth Community Engagement for Gender Transformation in Global Health: A Critical and Decolonial Mobilization for Health Equity

Capturing care work: Making visible women's emotional work in families through participatory video

Friends-First Initiation as a Foundation for Egalitarian and Satisfying Romantic Relationships

TRANSFORM: Engaging with Youth for Social Change

Modelling, predicting and risk assessment of mpox (monkeypox) and other (re)emerging zoonotic threats to inform decision-making and public health actions: mathematical, geospatial and machine learning approaches

TRANSFORM: Engaging with Youth for Social Change

Let's get Sexfluent! Exploring New Models for Modernizing Youth HIV Resources in Canada

Living Memories: Community-based Storytelling of Indigenous and Black Histories and Realities in Canada

Frequent collaborators

Adrian Guta

Robb Travers

Ashley Vandermorris

Salima Meherali

Carol Strike

Soo Chan Carusone

Lisa Avery

Bukola Salami

Michael Rotondi

Adrian Guta

Michael Rotondi

Michael Wilson

Soo Ying Chan Carusone

Alison Macpherson

Ciann Wilson

James Orbinski

Cheryllee Bourgeois

Jianhong Wu

Sarah Munro

Bukola Salami

Cheryllee Bourgeois

Alanna Goldstein

Ted Myers

Ross Upshur

Randall Jackson

Claudia Mitchell