Past Seminars and Events
Title: Improving Transition to Adult Diabetes Care
This presentation will identify some of the common challenges in the transition from pediatric to adult care, and explore ways to improve transition care.
Speaker: Dr. Rayzel Shulman
Title: Building a Database to Advance Black Health Research and Equity in Canada
This presentation examines the critical gap in race-based healthcare data in Ontario, with a specific focus on the Black, African, and Caribbean communities in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and beyond.
Speaker: Rayshaun Whyte
Title: From Data to Action in the Fight Against Diabetes and NCDs in Malaysia
By bridging the gap between innovation and implementation, this lecture aims to empower clinicians, policymakers, and researchers to adopt a proactive approach in leveraging data and digitalization for better diabetes care.
Speaker: Dr. Lee-Ling Lim
Title: Reinventing stories: non-pharmacological interventions for cardiometabolic health in the era of incretins
This presentation will review the role of non-pharmacological strategies to improve cardiometabolic health and discuss the current role of lifestyle interventions in the treatment of diabetes and obesity. It will also highlight holistic interventions that can improve metabolic health worldwide.
Speaker: Dr. Caroline K. Kramer
On Wednesday, August 13, 2025, the Novo Nordisk Network for Healthy Populations (NHP) hosted it’s annual Student Research Day. The event brings together NHP’s summer students and their supervisors for a day of presentations, discussions and networking opportunities.
Twenty students presented on the research projects they participated in, giving a five-minute overview of what they did and what they found.
On June 9, 2025 the Novo Nordisk Network for Healthy Populations hosted its second Discovery Day: Empowering Communities: Locally-Driven Research and Partnerships in Peel Region and Beyond.
The event, which brought together more than 100 people, featured updates on the Network’s Catalyst Grant program, as well as a keynote presentation, poster sessions and networking opportunities.
Speaker: Sonya Grewal
Title: Bridging the gap: Patient and healthcare professional perspectives on accessing and using cancer genetics services by racialized and ethnic communities in Ontario
Speaker: Sharmin Majumder
Title: Association between neighbourhood poverty and type 2 diabetes risk. Does moving from a high to lower poverty neighbourhood reduce diabetes risk?
Title: Report, Reflect, Resolve: Shaping Inclusive Spaces for Patient and Caregiver Voices in Healthcare Decision Making
This session introduces the Power Wheel, a tool designed to identify, reflect upon, and address power asymmetries within the 'places' and 'spaces' of patient engagement.
Speaker: Dr. Ambreen Sayani & Alies Maybee
Title: Avoiding Diabetes After Pregnancy Together with Moms (ADAPT-M): Bridging Care from the Third to the Fourth Trimester
This presentation will discuss gaps in postpartum care for this population, preliminary results of a trial of ADAPT-M, and the plans for implementation in 3 Ontario regions, including Mississauga as one of the pilot sites
Speaker: Dr. Lorraine Lipscombe
Title: Analysis of the influence of Neighbourhood Walkability on the Presence of Chronic Diseases among Arab, Racialized, immigrants, and Canadian-born populations in Canada
Speaker: Ibrahim Ghanem
Title: Advanced data science methods to examine trends and predict risk of multimorbidity in individuals with asthma in Ontario
Speaker: Ijeoma Itanyi
Title: Considerations for Advancing Population Health, Diabetes Prevention and Diabetes Management Through AI
This presentation explores the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in advancing population health, with a focus on innovative strategies for diabetes prevention and management.
Speaker: Professor Laura Rosella
Title: Reconsidering the single-risk framework: Applications in multimorbidity
Speaker: Ingrid Giesinger
Title: Integrating LiDAR and satellite imagery to assess the relationship between types of green space and diabetes in Mississauga, Ontario
Speaker: Scarlett Rakowska
Title: Maximizing the health benefits of Canada’s largest population health intervention: The expansion of urban trail networks
This talk will describe the use of causal epidemiological studies and implementation science to help determine the best way to maximize the health benefits of Canada’s investment in urban trails.
Speaker: Dr. Jon McGavock
A day dedicated to connecting, learning, and sharing. Our first Discovery Day featured a keynote presentation by Dr. David Campbell and a screening of his documentary 'Low'.
Title: Adapting an Innovative Model of Care for Young Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
An innovative team-based diabetes care model based on structured assessment and risk stratification was developed in and implemented successfully across Hong Kong.
Speaker: Dr. Calvin Ke
Title: Working with Residents to Effect Change: A Connected Community Approach
In this presentation, we explore the genesis and key features of a Connected Community Approach, and implications for community-based public health and community resilience building work, drawing on empirical research in 6 racialized low income neighbourhoods in Toronto.
Speaker: Dr. Blake Poland
Title: Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes as a public health intervention to reduce diabetes and other metabolic syndromes: theory and applications to Canada’s first SSB tax in Newfoundland and Labrador
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Zaltz
Title: Precision Diabetes is now becoming a reality in India
Learn about how precision medicine is being used in diabetes care in India and beyond. Dr. Mohan will discuss “Precision Diabetes”, which refers to using clinical, biochemical, genetic and other data to provide scientific treatment to patients with diabetes. He will speak about the ways precision medicine is now being used in clusters of type 2 diabetes and in monogenic diabetes.
Speaker: Dr. V. Mohan
Title: Small Steps for Big Changes: Lessons learned on implementing an evidence-based diabetes prevention program into diverse urban communities
Learn about Small Steps Big Changes, a diet and exercise counselling intervention that significantly reduces the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes (T2D).
Speaker: Dr. Mary Jung
Title: Health Coaching: What is the evidence and impact on diabetes prevention and management?
Ever wonder what health coaching is and how it can impact type 2 diabetes prevention and management? This webinar will explain the latest research and practice implications of health coaching for diabetes.
Speaker: Dr. Diana Sherifali
Title: Racial Disparities in Diabetes Screening at a Large Primary Care Center: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Analysis
Speaker: Dr. Azza Eissa
Title: Exploring the Canadian Food Environment: Its Characteristics and Implications for Diabetes Risk
Speaker: Dr. Mavra Ahmed
Title: Equity Research in Canada: An Overview and Some Thoughts about Ways Forward
In this session, Dr. Siddiqi will present a primer on key concepts and issues that have been developed in the scientific literature on health inequities.
Speaker: Dr. Arjumand Siddiqi
Title: Tingbjerg Changing Diabetes
Tingbjerg Changing Diabetes is a long-term, complex, community-based health promotion initiative carried out in the disadvantaged neighbourhood of Tingbjerg in urban Copenhagen, Denmark.
Speaker: Dr. Paul Bloch
Title: Guiding primary care diabetic retinopathy screening in Canada through the use of provincial healthcare administrative data
Role of patient-oriented research in developing new models of care: Preventing vision loss from diabetic retinopathy
Spearker: Dr. Valeria Rak
Title: Comparing diabetes quality of care and outcomes between Ontarian immigrants and non-immigrants within dimensions of marginalization
Speaker: Shadia Adekunte
Title: The Healthcare Experiences of Black Women Living with Diabetes in Toronto, Ontario
Speaker: Fatema Ali
Title: Managing Diabetes in the Context of Homelessness
Speaker: Dr. David Campbell
Title: Predictors of Readiness for Health Behaviour Change After Gestational Diabetes
Speaker: Dominika Bhatia
Title: During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across Ontario Health Teams: Insights from Population Data in Ontario, Canada
Speaker: Laleh Rashidian
Title: The Weight of Place. The Built Environment and Diabetes Risk
This presentation explores the environmental determinants of type 2 diabetes and potential policy solutions to create more livable and healthy cities.
Speaker: Dr. Gillian Booth
Title: Pitching Transformative Change for Diabetes
This was an opportunity for our Catalyst Grant applicants to showcase their ideas to community stakeholders in Peel and our University of Toronto teams.
Title: Evaluation of novel glomerular filtration rate estimation equations in adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes
Speaker: Karolina Gaebe
Title: Evaluation of shorter measured glomerular filtration rate procedures in young adults with type 1 diabetes
Speaker: Kaveh Gaynor-Sodeifi
Title: Understanding the social, cultural, environmental and systemic factors influencing diabetes prevention and management among South Asian caregivers in Peel Region
Speakers: Dr. Ian Zenlea, Chelsea D’Silva, and Nuzha Hafleen
Title: Understanding the Burden of Diabetes and Chronic Disease in Peel Region
Speakers: Dr. Calvin Ke, Dr. Sarah Mah, and Dr. Ghazal Fazli