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Research team

The Partnership on AI and Quality of work (PAIQ) brings together research expertise from diverse disciplines. The individuals who make up our research team come from different academic fields including ethics, engineering, industrial relations, sociology, social psychology, public health and public policy. They bring to this project deep knowledge of a range of research methods including evidence synthesis, labour force analysis, qualitative research and partnered research. 

Principal investigator

Arif Jetha, Scientist, Institute for Work & Health (PI)

Research support

  • Julie Bowring, Research Coordinator, Institute for Work & Health
  • Meghan Crouch, Research analyst, Institute for Work & Health
  • Qing Liao, Research Analyst, Institute for Work & Health

Occupational health and public health researchers

  • Victoria Arrandale, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
  • Ananya Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupation Health, McGill University
  • Aviroop Biswas, Scientist, Institute for Work & Health
  • Kathleen Dobson, Associate Scientist, Institute for Work & Health
  • Monique Gignac, Scientific Director & Senior Scientist, Institute for Work & Health
  • Emma Irvin, Director, Research Operations, Institute for Work & Health
  • Vicki Kristman, Director & Senior Scientist, EPID@ Work: Enhancing the Prevention of Injury & Disability at Work Research Institute, Lakehead University
  • Ellen MacEachen, Professor; Director, School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo
  • Susan Peters, Associate Director, Center for Work, Health and Well-Being, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Andrew Pinto,  Director, Upstream Lab, Unity Health Toronto & University of Toronto
  • Faraz Vahid Shahidi, Associate Scientist, Institute for Work & Health
  • Peter Smith, President & Senior Scientist, Institute for Work & Health
  • Brendan Smith, Scientist, Department of Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention, Public Health Ontario
  • Daniyal Zuberi, Professor of Social Policy at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto

Artificial intelligence, technology and innovation researchers

  • Ebrahim Bagheri, Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
  • Kean Birch, Professor & Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy, York University
  • Avi Goldfarb, Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
  • Muhammad Mamdani, Vice President of Data Science and Advanced Analytics, Unity Health Toronto
  • Naimul Mefraz Khan, Associate Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University
  • Laura Rosella, Director & Mentor, Artificial Intelligence for Public Health Training Platform, AI4PH, University of Toronto
  • Frank Rudzicz, Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University; Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair, Dalhousie University
  • Abiramy Sriharan, Scientific Director, Krembil Centre for Health Management and Leadership, Schulich School of Business, York University
  • Jutta Treviranus, Director, Inclusive Research Design Centre, OCAD University
  • Viet Vu, Manager of Economic Research, The Dais at Toronto Metropolitan University
  • Nicole Wu, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Policy, labour, business, sociology and ethics researchers

  • Silvia Bonaccio, Ian Telfer Professor of Workplace Psychology and Vice-Dean (Research) at the University of Ottawa, University of Ottawa
  • Wendy Cukier, Founder & Academic Director, Diversity Institute, Toronto Metropolitan University
  • Mathieu Dupuis, Associate Professor, Labor Relations, Université Laval
  • Marc Frenette, Research Economist, Statistics Canada
  • Peter Loewen, Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University
  • Jenna Myers, Assistant Professor, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resource, University of Toronto
  • Paula Rowland, Assistant Professor, Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto
  • Danielle van Jaarsveld, E.D. MacPhee Professor of Management; Division Chair, Organizational Behaviour & Human Resources Division, UBC Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

Ethics researchers

  • Valerio De Stefano, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Innovation Law and Society, York University
  • Pamela Hopwood, PhD student, Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo
  • Jay Shaw, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy; Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Responsible Health Innovation, University of Toronto
  • Maxwell Smith, Associate Professor and CIHR Applied Public Health Chair in Ethics and Health Emergencies, Western University
  • Gabrielle Voiseux, PhD student, Organizational Behaviour & Human Resources Division, UBC Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
  • Karina Vold, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto