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Andrew Pinto

MD, CCFP, FRCPC, MSc

Scientist

Email: Andrew.Pinto@unityhealth.to
Tel: 416-867-3728
Twitter: @AndrewDPinto

Research Programs

Labs

The Upstream Lab ❯

Biography

Dr. Andrew Pinto is the founder and 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 in Toronto and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. He is the Associate Director for Clinical Research at the University of Toronto Practice-Based Research Network, the lead for clinical research of Ontario’s POPLAR network, and the founder of the Canadian Primary Care Trials Network. 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 St. Andrews University in Scotland.

 

Recent Publications

  1. Friesen, EL, Pugliese, M, MacDonald-Spracklin, R, Manuel, D, Wilson, K, Hobin, E et al.. Effect of Nonmedical Cannabis Legalization and Exposure to Retail Stores on Cannabis Harms : A Quasi-experimental Study. Ann Intern Med. 2025; :. doi: 10.7326/ANNALS-25-01960. PubMed PMID:41285008 .
  2. Damar, M, Hosseini, B, Pinto, AD, Aydin, O, Cali, U. Science mapping of COVID-19 contributions in primary health care by OECD countries: A machine learning approach. Digit Health. 2025;11 :20552076251389341. doi: 10.1177/20552076251389341. PubMed PMID:41181561 PubMed Central PMC12576027.
  3. Pinto, AD, Birdi, S, Durant, S, Rabet, R, Parekh, R, Ali, S et al.. Machine Learning Applications in Population and Public Health: Guidelines for Development, Testing, and Implementation. JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2025;11 :e68952. doi: 10.2196/68952. PubMed PMID:41134979 PubMed Central PMC12551935.
  4. Persaud, N, Ul Haq, MZ, Buadu, A, Sabir, A, Sinha, L, Thorpe, KE et al.. Voucher for Healthy Foods and Diabetes Control: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2025;185 (12):1434-1441. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.5420. PubMed PMID:41114992 PubMed Central PMC12538504.
  5. O'Rourke, JJ, Smithman, MA, Fortuna, I, San Antonio, E, Gupta, A, Kosowan, L et al.. Advancing Health Equity Through Primary Care: Protocol for the Spread, Scale, and Multimethod Developmental Evaluation of the Deep End Canada Network. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025;14 :e75732. doi: 10.2196/75732. PubMed PMID:41072923 PubMed Central PMC12552831.
  6. Smithman, MA, Ogundele, OJ, Perrier, L, Komeiha, M, Artyukh, I, Kapoor, P et al.. Collecting and using social needs data in health settings: a systematic review of the literature on health service utilization and costs. BMC Health Serv Res. 2025;25 (1):1258. doi: 10.1186/s12913-025-13458-2. PubMed PMID:41029653 PubMed Central PMC12482085.
  7. Garies, S, Meaney, C, Weyman, K, Bloch, G, Gronsbell, J, Vahidi-Williams, N et al.. Testing regular expression searches and machine learning models to determine housing instability and low income status from primary care electronic medical record data in Toronto, Ontario. BMC Public Health. 2025;25 (1):3172. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-23960-1. PubMed PMID:41029557 PubMed Central PMC12487253.
  8. Yan, H, Gallant, AJ, Delahunty-Pike, A, Langley, JE, Zsager, A, Abaga, E et al.. Addressing housing insecurity as a social determinant of health: A systematic review of interventions in healthcare settings. Soc Sci Med. 2025;384 :118557. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118557. PubMed PMID:40946591 .
  9. Kosowan, L, Katz, A, Howse, D, Adekoya, I, Delahunty-Pike, A, Seshie, AZ et al.. Validation of a standardised approach to collect sociodemographic and social needs data in Canadian primary care: cross-sectional study of the SPARK tool. BMJ Open. 2025;15 (9):e091318. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-091318. PubMed PMID:40930547 PubMed Central PMC12421621.
  10. Lee, KG, Gagliardi, AR, Lofters, AK, Pinto, AD, Maunder, RG. Shared decision-making, the working alliance, and patient-centered care: A simultaneous concept analysis and review of the literature. Patient Educ Couns. 2025;141 :109316. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2025.109316. PubMed PMID:40876260 .
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Affiliations & Other Activities

  • Staff Physician, Department of Family and Community Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
  • Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto