Projects

Current/Future

• Speed, Safety, and Equity: Unveiling the Impact of Automated Speed Enforcement on Collisions.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant

• Barriers and facilitators to Ontario’s E-Scooter program: Applying the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) to identify policy implications. 

• Building CapaCITY/É for Sustainable Transportation. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) in partnership with Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)- Healthy Cities Implementation Science (HCIS) Team 

• Road traffic speed and volume profiles of collision hotspots in the City of Toronto. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant

• Eye on the street: Using computer vision to capture the determinants of road safety.  Data Sciences Institute Catalyst Grant, University of Toronto 

• Socioeconomic Inequities in Pediatric Transportation-Related Concussions: An 11-Year Population-Based Trend Analysis (2014–2024). 

• Evaluating the association between Rowan’s Law and Sports-Related Concussion in Children and Youth- a population-based study 2014-2024. 

• Built Environment Risk Factors for Child Pedestrian Injuries in Kampala, Uganda: A Case-Crossover Study. 

• Equity, accessibility and micromobility: A pan-Canadian scan of municipal and provincial transportation and road safety policy. 

• Changes in police-reported collision data spatial patterns before and after 2020 lockdown measures in Canadian cities: insights from the RECOVR project. 

• Neighbourhood built environment and active transportation injuries in a Canadian child and youth hospital cohort- A nested case-control analysis 

• Bridging science, policy, and politics for healthier cities: Insights and implications from Canadian research. 

Past (Topics last 10 years)

• Automated speed enforcement reduced vehicle speeds in school zones 

• Guelph’s Active Healthy Public Spaces (GAHPS) and lessons from Copenhagen

• Inequity and the social and built environment determinants of child and adolescent active transportation injuries.

• Examining the effects of public health policies implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic on unintentional injuries in children and youth in British Columbia and Ontario, including as related to equity 

• Cycling and pedestrian collisions on cycle tracks installed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• The effect of COVID-19 policies on road safety and transportation mode shift across Canadian Cities 

• Social risk factors and the influence of the built environment on children and youth's active school transportation and pedestrian motor vehicle collisions 

• Field observations of bicyclist gender distribution on types of bicycle infrastructure

• Child Active Transportation Safety and the Environment (CHASE) 

• Pedestrian countdown timers: Effect on pedestrian injury rates. 

• Body-checking rules and childhood injuries in ice hockey

• The effect of safer play equipment on playground injury rates among school children

• School playground surfacing and arm fractures in children comparing sand to wood chip surfaces.

• Child pedestrian injury surveillance in urban Uganda, Africa

• Effect of 30 km/h speed limit reductions on child pedestrian collisions 

• Methodological issues in road safety research

• Driver characteristics associated with child pedestrian collisions

• Stroller use in school transportation

• Effectiveness of traffic calming

• Effectiveness of pedestrian countdown timers

• School crossing guards and pedestrian collisions

• Parent perceptions of road safety on school routes and around schools

• Dangerous driving behaviours

• Barriers and enablers to enacting child and youth-related injury prevention legislation

• Blame attribution in police reports of child bicyclist collisions

• Mechanism of injury and 6-month functional outcomes in children hospitalized because of severe injuries

• Disability and pedestrian road traffic injury