Rate My Professor Andrew Pinto

Dr. Andrew Pinto is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, with additional appointments in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. He is a Public Health and Preventive Medicine specialist and family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital of Unity Health Toronto. Dr. Pinto holds an MD, CCFP, FRCPC, and an MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, completed as a Commonwealth Scholar following residency training at the University of Toronto.

He is the founding and current director of the Upstream Lab, a research team focused on addressing social determinants of health, population health management, and the use of data science to support Learning Health Systems. Dr. Pinto holds the CIHR Applied Public Health Chair in Upstream Prevention. He serves as Director of the University of Toronto Practice-Based Research Network (UPLEARN), lead for clinical research of Ontario’s POPLAR network, and founder of the Canadian Primary Care Trials Network. Additional roles include membership on the Institute Advisory Board of CIHR’s Institute for Population and Public Health, adjunct scientist at the Institute for Work and Health, and honorary senior lecturer at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. His research interests encompass evaluations of interventions targeting social determinants of health at multiple levels, application of population health perspectives to health services, and the use of big data tools for health sector transformation.