Data on the Social Determinants of Health
Dr. Andrew Pinto of the Upstream Lab will share lessons learned from the past decade of engaged research on social determinants of health data. The presentation will cover the development of social data questions and data collection from patients as well as the implementation of approaches for governance and the use of these data at multiple levels. Dr. Pinto will also share new approaches, including the use of artificial intelligence, to derive social data. This presentation is designed to be in conversation with previous talks in the Big IDEAs About Health Data Speaker Series, including those highlighting the appropriate governance of sociodemographic data, exploring Indigenous data governance and sovereignty, and measuring disability in administrative data.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Andrew Pinto is the founding and current director of the Upstream Lab, a research team focused on tackling social determinants of health, population health management, and using data science to enable proactive care. He holds the CIHR Applied Public Health Chair in Upstream Prevention. He is a public health and preventive medicine specialist and family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital of Unity Health Toronto, and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. He is the Director of the University of Toronto Practice-Based Research Network (UPLEARN), the lead for clinical research of Ontario’s POPLAR network, and the founder of the Canadian Primary Care Trials Network. Among other roles, he serves on the Institute Advisory Board of CIHR’s Institute for Population and Public Health, is an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Work and Health, and an honorary senior lecturer at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.