Avi Biswas, PhD
Associate Scientist, Institute for Work & Health, and Assistant Professor, University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Dr. Avi Biswas is an associate scientist at the Institute for Work & Health and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Dr. Biswas holds a Ph.D. in Health Services Research from the University of Toronto, and he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in workplace health promotion and epidemiology at the Institute for Work & Health. Dr. Biswas conducts health promotion research at the intersection of work and health. His emerging research program includes examining patterns of physical activity at work and outside of work and the associated cardiometabolic benefits; how work factors contribute to physical activity outside of work; and research to inform efforts to integrate workplace health promotion with occupational health and safety in Canadian workplaces.