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Thilina Bandara

ResearcherCommunity Health and EpidemiologyUniversity of Saskatchewan

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Thilina Bandara

Researcher

Community Health and Epidemiology

Health Sciences

University of Saskatchewan

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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16 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 6 research grants (6 CIHR), most recently in 2024.

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Research

Public Health Surviellance Administrative Data Big Data Decomposition Health Inequalities Social Determinants Of Health Urban Health

Latest papers

Can we eliminate cervical cancer in Canada? In conversation with leading experts in public health and cancer prevention.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026
Closing the research-to-practice gap: Using a plan-do-study-act approach to test innovative interventions to increase HPV immunization uptake in Canada.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026
What are the current consent processes for adolescent vaccination in Canada? An environmental scan of practices, challenges and alternative approaches.
BMJ open · 2026

All 18 publications

Latest funding

Optimising pandemic and emergency preparedness through better coordination and uptake of behavioural science evidence and tools: Extending the iCARE Platform
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$3,000,000
Rivers of Hope through Strength: Strengthening or Leveraging Community Expertise and Capacity to Support Young Women at Risk of HIV and STBBI in Saskatchewan
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$1,000,000
Indigenous Futurisms in Indigenous Health and Wellbeing: The natawihowin and mamawiikikayaahk Research, Training and Mentorship Networks - SK-NEIHR
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$1,500,000

All 13 grants and awards

18 publications.

Can we eliminate cervical cancer in Canada? In conversation with leading experts in public health and cancer prevention.

Rathwell M, Dolin A, Bandara T, Halligan M, Neudorf C

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2026

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-026-01247-1 PMID: 42687102

Closing the research-to-practice gap: Using a plan-do-study-act approach to test innovative interventions to increase HPV immunization uptake in Canada.

Sandhu N, Rathwell M, Dolin A, Bandara T, Wondim M, Neudorf C

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2026

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-026-01248-0 PMID: 42671708

What are the current consent processes for adolescent vaccination in Canada? An environmental scan of practices, challenges and alternative approaches.

Yunusa U, Zeleke AJ, Reifferscheid L, Bandara T, MacDonald SE

BMJ open2026

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2026-119564 PMID: 42493206

Investing in surveillance and community engagement to improve HPV immunization provision: An innovation in enabling evidence-based public health practice.

Bandara T, Rathwell M, Dolin A, Wondim M, Zhou Z, Neudorf C

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2026First author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-026-01227-5 PMID: 42467172

Trust in government, public health authorities, health scientists and medical care providers and COVID-19 vaccines among Canadian adults.

Muhajarine N, Adeyinka DA, Bandara T, Rizvi SJR, Sadique S, Huyser KR, Abraham N, Dubé E, Lavoie KL, Braun F, Neudorf C

Scientific reports2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-61780-4 PMID: 42432028

"Just be honest with us": A qualitative analysis of Canadians' public trust during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Muhajarine N, Neudorf C, Braun F, Mehdiyeva K, Baudelaire K, Omot A, Bedard B, Entwistle K, Bandara T, Sadique S, Abraham N, Huyser K, Lavoie KL, Dubé È, Betker C

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2026

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-025-01121-6 PMID: 41191293

A Quantitative Exploration of the Relationship Between Healthcare Accessibility and Mass Media in Nigeria Using the Levesque Framework of Healthcare Access.

Gordon C, Paslawski T, Bandara T, Floer S, Shah T

Vaccines2025

DOI: 10.3390/vaccines13090981 PMID: 41012184

Trust Dynamics and Equity in Public Health in Canada: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Project in the Postpandemic Era.

Muhajarine N, Neudorf C, Mehdiyeva K, Braun F, Rizvi SJR, Zhou Z, Bandara T, Baudelaire K, Sadique S, Adeyinka DA, Ramamoorthy S, Abraham N, Huyser K, Betker C, Jessome M, Chavez T, Lavoie KL, Dubé È

JMIR research protocols2025

DOI: 10.2196/75199 PMID: 41313631

Enablers and barriers to public health practice during COVID-19: Perspectives from local public leadership from across Canada.

Bandara T, Sandhu N, Mehdiyeva K, Singh S, Plante C, Neudorf C

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2025First author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-024-00982-7 PMID: 39777669

Multilevel Estimation of the Relative Impacts of Social Determinants on Income-Related Health Inequalities in Urban Canada: Protocol for the Canadian Social Determinants Urban Laboratory

Plante C, Gupta SD, Bandara T, Beland D, Blaser C, Camillo CA, de Villa E, Dutton D, Fuller D, Hasselback J

JMIR Research Protocols20251 citations

DOI: 10.2196/71929

Optimising pandemic and emergency preparedness through better coordination and uptake of behavioural science evidence and tools: Extending the iCARE Platform

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Operating Grant: Pandemic Research Platforms Interim Funding - General

Principal investigators: Lavoie, Kim; Bacon, Simon L

Keywords: Health And Policy Communication; Health Attitudes, Intentions And Behaviours; Health Disparities/Health Equity; Infectious Disease Preventive Behaviours; Mental And Physical Health; Pandemic And Emergency Preparedness; Policy Impacts; Prevention Policies; Resiliency; Trust Dynamics

$3,000,000

Rivers of Hope through Strength: Strengthening or Leveraging Community Expertise and Capacity to Support Young Women at Risk of HIV and STBBI in Saskatchewan

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Team Grant: HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research -General Indigenous Pool

Principal investigators: Maposa, Sithokozile; Cattapan, Alana R; Froehlich Chow, Amanda L; Skinner, Stuart J

Keywords: Community-Led Research; Culturally Safe Care; Health Equity; Hiv And Stbbis Prevention; Indigenous Health; Knowledge Mobilization; Lived Experience; Social Determinants Of Health; Trauma-Informed; Young Women

$1,000,000

Indigenous Futurisms in Indigenous Health and Wellbeing: The natawihowin and mamawiikikayaahk Research, Training and Mentorship Networks - SK-NEIHR

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Operating Grant: NEIHR - Consortium NEIHR Grant

Principal investigators: Henry, Robert; Campbell, Lori; Doolittle, Edward; Hansen-Gardiner, Terri; Kisikaw Piyesis, Margaret L; McKinney, Veronica; Ouellette, Dianne L; Pelly, Judy; Ferguson, Leah; Foulds, Heather; Graham, Holly A; Keepness, Shane L; Lambert, Simon; LaVallie, Carrie; Lovo, Stacey; Marks, Wendie N; McGinnis, Angela; Oosman, Sarah N; Opikokew Wajuntah, Cassandra J; Swidrovich, Jaris P; Tait, Caroline L

Keywords: Anti-Indigenous Racism; Community Engaged; Distinctions-Based; First Nations Health And Wellbeing; Indigenous Health And Wellbeing; Indigenous Mentorship; Metis Health And Wellbeing

$1,500,000

Indigenous Futurisms in Indigenous Health and Wellbeing: The natawihowin and mamawiikikayaahk Research, Training and Mentorship Networks - SK-NEIHR

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Operating Grant: NEIHR - Saskatchewan

Keywords: Anti-Indigenous Racism; Community Engaged; Distinctions-Based; First Nations Health And Wellbeing; Indigenous Health And Wellbeing; Indigenous Mentorship; Metis Health And Wellbeing

$4,000,000

Community-based, networked emergency response: A model for local public health crisis management

Nominated PICIHR2024Cat. Gr.:CPHO Report - Centre for Res. on Pand. Prepar. and Health Emerg.

Principal investigators: Bandara, Thilina; Neudorf, Cordell (Cory) O; Muhajarine, Nazeem

Keywords: Emergency Response; Public Health

$121,020

Rivers of Hope through Strength: Leveraging community expertise and capacity towards solutions for supporting Perinatal Women at risk of HIV and STBBI in Saskatchewan

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Team Grant: HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research - Young women - LOI

Principal investigators: Maposa, Sithokozile; Roberts, Katelyn; Cattapan, Alana R; Froehlich Chow, Amanda L; King, Alexandra

Keywords: Community-Centred Solutions; Complex Health & Social Needs; Hiv Stbbi & Substance Use Treatment; Hiv Stbbi Risk Factors & Prevention; Intersectoral & Stakeholder Engagement; Perinatal And Women'S Health; Preventing Vertical Hiv Stbbi Transmission; Stigma & Health Inequities In Underserved Populations; Wrap-Around Care Models For Hiv Stbbi; Youth, Family & Social Contexts For Wellness

$100,000

Request for $75K Supplement to the NEIHR National Coordinating Centre

Co-investigatorCIHR2024NEIHR - NCC - Supplement

Keywords: Language Translation

$75,000

Multilevel estimation of the relative impacts of social determinants on income-related health inequalities in urban Canada: Toward a new Canadian Social Determinants Urban Laboratory

Principal investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Neudorf, Cordell (Cory) O; Bandara, Thilina; Plante, Charles

Keywords: Administrative Data; Big Data; Decomposition; Health Inequalities; Social Determinants Of Health; Urban Health

$650,251

Addressing Urgent Calls for Public Health Workforce Planning: Establishing and Implementing National Indicators to Profile and Monitor the Public Health Workforce in Canada

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Belita, Emily

Keywords: Human Resource Planning; Public Health Systems And Services; Public Health Workforce; Workforce Capacity Development

$401,625

Addressing the data gaps in comparative local public health research

Nominated PICIHR2023Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Bandara, Thilina; Neudorf, Cordell (Cory) O; Plante, Charles

Keywords: Health Data; Public Health; Surviellance

$20,000

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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Thilina Bandara

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Latest papers

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Can we eliminate cervical cancer in Canada? In conversation with leading experts in public health and cancer prevention.

Closing the research-to-practice gap: Using a plan-do-study-act approach to test innovative interventions to increase HPV immunization uptake in Canada.

What are the current consent processes for adolescent vaccination in Canada? An environmental scan of practices, challenges and alternative approaches.

Investing in surveillance and community engagement to improve HPV immunization provision: An innovation in enabling evidence-based public health practice.

Trust in government, public health authorities, health scientists and medical care providers and COVID-19 vaccines among Canadian adults.

"Just be honest with us": A qualitative analysis of Canadians' public trust during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Quantitative Exploration of the Relationship Between Healthcare Accessibility and Mass Media in Nigeria Using the Levesque Framework of Healthcare Access.

Trust Dynamics and Equity in Public Health in Canada: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Project in the Postpandemic Era.

Enablers and barriers to public health practice during COVID-19: Perspectives from local public leadership from across Canada.

Multilevel Estimation of the Relative Impacts of Social Determinants on Income-Related Health Inequalities in Urban Canada: Protocol for the Canadian Social Determinants Urban Laboratory

Frequent collaborators

Nazeem Muhajarine

Charles Plante

Ninan Abraham

Gary Teare

Lisa Allen-Scott

Daniel Fuller

Kimberly Huyser

Cordell Neudorf

Michelle Halligan

Jasmine Hasselback

Darcy Marciniuk

Daniel Dutton

Marisa Young

Geranda Notten

Michael Wolfson

Donna Goodridge