Dr. Brendan Smith
Scientist
Research Focus
- Social epidemiology
- Population health intervention research
- Interventions to prevent chronic disease and reduce health inequities
- Alcohol policy
- Public health systems
Publications
- Smith BT, Warren CM, Andreacchi AT, Schwartz N, Hobin E. The joint effect of education and alcohol use on 100% alcohol-attributable hospitalization or death in Canada. Epidemiology. 2024;35(1):64-73.
- Smith BT, Warren CM, Anderson LN, Hammond D, Manuel DG, Li Y, et al. The equitable impact of sugary drink taxation structures on sugary drink consumption among Canadians: a modelling study using the 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey-Nutrition. Public Health Nutr. 2024;27(1):e121.
- Smith BT, Warren CM, Rosella LC, Smith MJ. Bridging ethics and epidemiology: modelling ethical standards of health equity. SSM Popul Health . 2023;24:101481.
New Initiatives
- Estimate the impacts of population-level alcohol policies across age, gender and socioeconomic position (Equity in Alcohol Policies study)
- Build infrastructure to study the sustainability of public health systems by collecting novel indicators and examining their relationship with population health and health equity (Ontario Public Health Information Database (OPHID) study)
- Integrates the fields of ethics and epidemiology to explore justice as the ethical basis for health equity (Modelling Ethical Standards of Health Equity’ (MESHE) study).
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Epidemiology), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
- Master of Science (Epidemiology), McGill University
- Honours Bachelor's of Science (Kinesiology), University of Waterloo
Personal statement
"As an epidemiologist, PHO’s unique applied public health setting allows me to work alongside leading researchers, public health practitioners and policy-makers. This multidisciplinary environment provides a variety of rich perspectives to inform my research program focused on understanding the impacts of population-level interventions to prevent chronic disease and reduce health inequities."
Updated
22 Oct 2019
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