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Toba Bryant
Assistant Professor

Contact Information:
Phone: (416) 208-4757
Office: MW212
Email: tbryant@utsc.utoronto.ca
Discipline: Health Studies

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Research Interests & Work in Progress

  • Health Policy
  • Social inequalities and health
  • Critical perspectives on health, illness, and health care

Teaching Interests & Responsibilities

  • Women and Health: Past and Present
  • The Politics of Canadian Health Policy

Awards & Grants

  • 2006-2011. CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health. Labonte, R., Amaratunga, C., Andersson, N., Bryant, T., Damaris, R., Kristin R., Heymann, J., S., Kristjansson, E., Maclean, H. Mckenzie, J., Muhajarine, N., Murray, K. Orsini, M., Ostry, A., Raphael, D., Ross, N., Sawada, M., Schrecker, T., Spiegel, J., & Spitzer, D. Globalization and the health of Canadians: A transdisciplinary research network. $820,000.
  • 2007-2010.SSHRC Raphael, D., Pilkington, B., Daiski, I., & Bryant, T. A study on the incidence and management of diabetes. $123,500.
  • 2005 Bryant, T. Raphael, D. A comparative study of health policy approaches in Canada, United Kingdom, United States, and Sweden. Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University. $20,000 grant.

Publications

  • Bryant, T. Raphael, D. & Rioux, M. (eds.) (2010). Staying alive: Critical perspectives on health, illness, and health care, 2nd edition. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press.
  • Bryant, T. (2009). Housing, income and gender as social determinants of women's health. Women's Health and Urban Life 8:2, 1-20.
  • Bryant, T. (2009). Social inequalities, public policy and health. Humanity and Society 33:1/2: 118-144.
  • Bryant, T. (2009). An introduction to health policy. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.
  • Bryant, T. (2009). The Canadian welfare state as a determinant of women’s health. In J. Gallivan and S. Cooper (Eds.), Pathways, bridges, and havens: The psych-social determinants of women’s health. Sydney: Cape Breton University Press.
  • Bryant, T. (2008). Housing and health: More than bricks and mortar. In D. Raphael, D. (ed.), Social determinants of Health: Canadian perspectives, 2nd edition. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.