Ghazal Fazli

Teaching Interests

• Social Research Methods, Health Crises, Pandemics, and Policy Responses
• Built Environment and Population Health Interventions
• Foundations in Health Studies
• Introduction to the Social Determinants of Health
• Introduction to Public Health
• Epidemiology and Community Health
• Comparative Health Systems

Research Interests

• Prediabetes
• Type 2 diabetes
• Chronic disease prevention
• Health systems
• Epidemiology
• Population health
• Research methodologies
• Healthy built environment
• Immigrant health

Awards and Grants

• Patient-Oriented Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, Diabetes Action Canada (2020-2022)
• CIHR Travel Award to the Canadian Public Health Association Annual Meeting (2019)
• International Public Policy Association Award, University of Padua (2019)
• CIHR Health Systems Impact Post-Doctoral Fellow (2018)
• IHPME Doctoral Completion Award (2018)
• International Diabetes Epidemiology Group, Workshop Bursary, Abu Dhabi (2017)
• Diabetes Action Canada, Knowledge Translation Canada, Graduate Scholarship (2017)
• European Association for the Study of Diabetes Travel Grant (2017
• SMH-LKSKI Graduate Scholarship (2016)
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Ministry of Training and Education (2015)
• Yow Kam-Yuen Graduate Scholarship in Diabetes Research, Banting and Best Diabetes Centre, University of Toronto (2016)
• Lupina Junior Doctoral Fellowship, Comparative Program on Health and Society, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto (2015)
• ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship, Washington Swiss Embassy (2015)
• Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Fellow, CIHR Strategic Training Program in Public Health Policy Fellowship Award (2013-2014; 2014-2015)

Publications

• Fazli GS, Booth GL. Call for Action on the Upstream Determinants of Diabetes among Marginalized Populations. Canadian Journal of Diabetes; 2023 47;7: 618-624
• den Braver NB, Lakerveld J, Gozdyra P, van de Brug T, Moin SJ; Fazli GS, Rutters F, Brug J; Moineddin R, Beulens JWJ; Booth GL. Higher neighbourhood drivability is associated with a higher diabetes risk in younger adults: a population-based cohort study in Toronto, Canada. Diabetes Care 2023
• den Braver NB, Lakerveld J, Gozdyra P, van de Brug T, Moin SJ; Fazli GS, Rutters F, Brug J; Moineddin R, Beulens JWJ; Booth GL. Development of a neighborhood drivability index and its association with transportation behavior in Toronto. Environment International 2022; 163: 10782
• Chu A, Shah BR, Rashid M, Booth GL, Fazli GS, Tu K, Sun LY, Abdel-Qadir H, Yu CH, Shin S, Connelly KA, Tobe S, Liu PP, Lee DS. Trends in glucose testing among individuals without diabetes in Ontario between 2010 and 2017: a population-based cohort study. CMAJ 2022
• Kornas K, Rosella LC, Fazli GS, Booth GL. Forecasting Diabetes Cases Prevented and Cost Savings Associated with Population Increases of Walking in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Canada. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021; 18(15):8127
• Booth, GL, Fazli GS, Bierman AS, Lipscombe LL, Shah BR, Isaranuwatchai W. Socioeconomic status and disparities in health care costs related to diabetes. Diabetes Care 2020; dc191536
• Fazli GS, Bierman AS, Moineddin R, Booth GL. Neighborhood walkability and pre-diabetes incidence in a multiethnic population. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care 2020; BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care. 2020; 8: e000908
• Fazli GS, Bierman AS, Moineddin R, Booth GL. Ethnic variation in the conversion of prediabetes to diabetes among immigrant populations relative to long-term residents: A population-based cohort study. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care 2020; BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care. 2020; 8(1): e000907
• Fazli GS, Bierman AS, Moineddin R, Booth GL. Ethnic differences in prediabetes incidence among immigrants to Canada: A population-based cohort study. BMC Medicine May 24 2019
• Booth GL, Creatore MI, Austin PA, Luo J, Fazli GS, Moineddin R, Gozdyra P, Matheson FI, Glazier RH. Neighbourhood walkability and 10-year diabetes incidence among an urban cohort: an Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting model. JECH January 19 2019
• Weisman A, Fazli GS, Johns AS, Booth GL. Evolving Trends in the Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes: A Review. Can J Cardiology 2018
• Fazli G, Creatore MI, Manson H, Ha P, Matheson F, Kaufman-Shiriqi V, Guilcher S, Booth, G. Identifying Mechanisms to translating the evidence on built environment to policy and planning actions. BMC Public Health, Jan 3, 2017
• Creatore MI, Glazier RH, Moineddin R, Fazli GS, Gozdyra P, Matheson FI, Kaufman-Shriqui V, Booth GL. The impact of neighbourhood walkability on the rise in overweight, obesity, and diabetes in Ontario, Canada, 2001-2010. JAMA May 24, 2016
• Khan Y, Fazli GS, Henry B, de Villa E, Tsamis C, Grant M, Schwartz B. The evidence base of primary research in public health emergency preparedness: a scoping review and stakeholder consultation. BMC Public Health 2015 15: 432-442
• Matheson IF, Smith KLW, Fazli GS, Moinnedin R, Dunn JR, Glazier RH. (2014). Physical Health Status and Gender as Risk Factors for Onset of Mental Illness over 10 years. JECH 2014
• Glazier RH, Creatore MI, Weyman JT, Fazli G, Matheson FI, et al. Density, Destinations or Both? A Comparison of Measures of Walkability in Relation to Transportation Behaviors, Obesity and Diabetes in Toronto, Canada. PLoS ONE 2014 9(1)