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Amanda Sheppard

Senior Scientist, Indigenous Cancer Care Unit, Acute and Hospital-Based Care, Ontario Health

Lead Scientist 
amanda.sheppard@ontariohealth.ca

Research Interests

  • First Nations, Inuit and Métis health
  • Cancer surveillance and research

 

Current Appointments

  • Group Manager and Scientist, Indigenous Cancer Care Unit, Prevention and Cancer Control, Clinical Institutes and Quality Programs, Ontario Health
  • Director, Collaborative Program in Aboriginal Health, University of Toronto
  • Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

 

Selected Past Appointments

  • Applied Scientist, AboutKidsHealth, The Hospital for Sick Children
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

 

Education and Credentials

  • PhD, Medical Sciences Research, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto
  • MSc, Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Toronto
  • BSc, Biology and Anthropology, Trent University

 

Skills and Experience

  • Knowledge of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and their communities, including socio-economic issues, and historical, geographic and cultural perspectives
  • Conducting complex analysis of administrative health data for surveillance, research and policy

Selected Publications

DeSouza A, Cancelliere C, Hogg-Johnson S, Sheppard AJ, Taylor D, Clark JI, Ward JL, Maher J, Garner J, Lynds R, Radyk R, Côté P. Prevalence and factors associated with pain-related disabilities among Inuit in Canada in 2017: a cross-sectional study. Int J Circumpolar Health. 2025 Dec 31;84(1):2591433. doi: 10.1080/22423982.2025.2591433. Epub 2025 Dec 2. PMID: 41328766.

DeSouza A, Taylor D, Ward JL, Vizza J, Yu H, Murnaghan K, Cancelliere C, Hogg-Johnson S, Sheppard AJ, Côté P. Prevalence, incidence, and factors associated with pain-related disabilities, and experiences of limitations due to pain among First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples in Canada: A scoping review. Can J Public Health. 2025 Jun 16. doi: 10.17269/s41997-025-01047-z. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40522616.

Ellison LK, Ng C, Kewayosh A, Troke N, Elias B, Tjepkema M, Letendre A, Marrett LD, Sheppard AJ. Ancestry or identity? The importance of Indigenous engagement in articulating First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in the 2006 Canadian Census Health and Environmental Cohort (CanCHEC). Int J Circumpolar Health. 2025 Dec;84(1):2495378. doi: 10.1080/22423982.2025.2495378. Epub 2025 Apr 24. PMID: 40272120.

Lambert-Côté L, Turgeon A, Blackmore KM, Chang A, Antoniou AC, Bell KA, Broeders MJ, Brooks JD, Carver T, Chang SL, Chiquette J, Demers E, Easton DF, Eisen A, Eloy L, Evans DGR, Fienberg S, Joly Y, Kim RH, Knoppers BM, LabeauCaouette C, Lessard J, Lofters A, Nabi H, Paquette J-S, Pashayan N, Sheppard AJ, Stockley TL, Walker MJ, Chiarelli AM, Simard J, Dorval M. Psychological and emotional impacts of communicating breast cancer risk using multifactorial assessment with polygenic risk score: findings from PERSPECTIVE I&I. Genet Med. 2025 Aug;27(8):101453. doi: 10.1016/j.gim.2025.101453. Epub 2025 May 10. PMID: 40365755.

For a full list of Amanda Sheppard's journal articles, visit PubMed.