Onil Bhattacharyya

About

Overview of the Team

Investigators: Doug Angus Melissa Brouwers Martin Eccles Jill Francis Gaston Godin Ian Graham Jeremy Grimshaw Steve Hanna Margaret Harrison Louise Lemyre Jo Logan Merrick Zwarenstein
New Investigators: Onil Bhattacharyya Michelle Driedger France Légaré Linda Li Rosemary Martino Marie-Pascale Pomey
Students: Shawn Bugden Gaby Doumit Sandy Dunn Jennifer Eyvindson Noah Ivers Annie Leblanc Justin Presseau Micheal G. Wilson
Collaborators: Jacqueline Tetroe
Team Coordinator: Vanessa Lybanon

Takemi Fellow in International Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Clinician scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto
Funded researcher, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto

Research Interests

Knowledge Translation
Primary care performance measurement
Diabetes and cardiovascular disease
Aboriginal health
Health services in low and middle-income countries

Biography

Onil Bhattacharyya is a Clinician Scientist with the newly founded Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital within the University of Toronto. He is currently finishing a PhD in Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He is a funded researcher with the Department of family and Community Medicine at U of T and will begin a fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health in October 2006.

Dr. Bhattacharyya graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Montreal in 1999 and completed a residency in family medicine from the same university in 2002. He works as a family physician in a community health centre in Toronto, and does regular locum work in Northern Ontario.

His PhD research has focused on the simplification of treatment guidelines to increase uptake in resource-constrained environments, and testing prioritized key messages from diabetes guidelines through mixed-method studies. He is interested in the impact of context on guideline implementation both urban and rural, as well as within high- and low-capacity health systems. Future projects include the simplification of cardiovascular disease management and the elaboration of models of primary care in low and middle-income countries.

Major Research Activities

Research activity	Funding
Overcoming barriers to diabetes guideline implementation in remote aboriginal communities	2005-2006 Janus Research Grant
Transdisciplinary Understanding and Training on Research-Primary Health Care (TUTOR-PHC)	2005-2006 CIHR Doctoral Fellowship
Overcoming barriers to diabetes guideline implementation in remote aboriginal communities	2004-2006 SACME
Sponsored doctoral student project	2004-2006 CIHR ICE
Evaluation of community health services in urban China	1999-2000 CIDA Youth Intern Scholarship

Selected Publications

Bhattacharyya, O., Reeves, S., Garfinkel, S., Zwarenstein, M. Designing theoretically-informed implementation interventions: Fine in theory, but evidence of effectiveness in practice is needed. Implementation Science, 2006, 1:5.
CIRCLE: The Canadian First Nations Diabetes Clinical Management Evaluation Study, technical report and project proposal for Health Canada, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, March 31, 2004.
Bhattacharyya, O., Farand, F., Champagne F. Evaluation of a community health centre model for urban China, technical report for International Development Research Centre, October 20, 2003.

Funded by:

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