This webinar is presented by the Health Data Research Network (HDRN) Canada as part of their 2025-26 Big IDEAs About Health Data Speaker Series. The Big IDEAs About Health Data Speaker Series features a variety of experts discussing how data can be used to advance health equity.
# 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 Learning Health Systems. 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.
# Other Webinars in this Series
- Thursday, September 25 | Centring Racial Equity throughout the Data Life Cycle
- Thursday, January 29 | Using Administrative Data in Rural Dementia Health Services Research
- Thursday, March 26 | Social Contexts of Administrative Data About Substance Use Disorder
- Thursday, May 28 | Indigenous Methodologies, Data & Community Governance