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Sathya Karunananthan holds a PhD in epidemiology from McGill University. She is an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa and an investigator at the Bruyère Health Research Institute.

Professor Karunananthan’s research takes an integrated knowledge translation and exchange approach, involving key knowledge users, including persons with lived experiences, health-care providers, health administrators, community organizations and policy-makers throughout the research process. She works in interdisciplinary teams, using advanced quantitative methods to analyze large health administrative and survey data, as well as mixed methods and evidence synthesis.

Professor Karunananthan is accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Equitable access to health services
• Language as a social determinant of health
• Older adults living with dementia and frailty
• Health technology and artificial intelligence in health care
• Meta-research
• Participatory research

Sathya Karunananthan’s research on health services focuses on improving access to care for older adults with complex health conditions, such as dementia, frailty, chronic pain and Parkinson’s disease. She investigates disparities in care access among underserved communities, specifically, linguistic minority and racialized groups. She studies the impact of health technologies like electronic consultation and artificial intelligence on inequities in access to care and health outcomes.

Professor Karunananthan’s work in meta-research examines how research is conducted, to identify potential sources of bias, raise awareness of them and advocate for practices and guidelines that minimize them, ensuring that scientific findings are both robust and reliable.

Professor Karunananthan’s  research program has been funded by a variety of sources including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the 91��Ʒ���ϳԹ� Brain and Mind Research Institute (uOBMRI), the Brain-Heart Interconnectome (BHI), the Consortium national de formation en santé (CNFS), Innovations Strengthening Primary Health Care Through Research (INSPIRE-PHC), the Community Health and Social Services Network (CHSSN) and the Alzheimer Society of Canada.

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• Hum, E., Karunananthan, S., Adil, A., Moroz, I., Davidson, R., & Liddy, C. (2025, January). . Canadian Journal of Pain, 9(1).
• Schneider, T., Farrell, B., Karunananthan, S., Afkham, A., Keely, E., Liddy, C. & McCarthy, L. (2024, March). . BMC Primary Care, 25(1).
• Karunananthan, S., Bonacci, G., Fung, C., Huang, A., Robert, B., McCutcheon, T., Houghton, D., Hakimjavadi, R., Keely E., Liddy, C. (2024, January). . BMC Health Services Research.
• Karunananthan, S., Rahgozar, A., Hakimjavadi, R., Yan, H., Dalsania, K., Bergman, H., Ghose, B., LaPlante, J., McCutcheon., T., McIsaac, D.I., Abbasgholizaddeh Rahimi, S., Sourial, N., Thandi, M., Wong, S.T. & Liddy, C. (2023, December). . BMJ Open, 13(12).
• Lee, S.H., Gibb, M., Karunananthan, S., Cody, M., Tanuseputro, P., Johnston, S., Kendall, C., Bedard, D., Collin, S. & Kehoe MacLeod, K. (2023, December). . International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22.
• Karunananthan, S., Grimshaw, J.M., Maxwell, L., Nguyen, P.Y., Page, M.J., Pardo Pardo, J., Petkovic, J., Vachon, B., Welch, V.A. & Tugwell, P. (2023, October). . BMJ Evid Based Med.
• Nunan, D., Bashir, K., Bilimoria, K., Birdi, J., Campbell, F., Dean, R., Downer, M.B., Costa, G.G., Golob, M.M., Heintzman, A., Howe, M.S., Karunananthan, S., Kurup, K.K., Leinberger-Jabari, A., Luo, Y., Mathe, N., Miguel, R.T.D., Morrow, R.L., Scobie, C. … Yadav, U.N. (2023, October). . BMJ Evid Based Med. 28(5), pp. 337-340.
• Nguyen, P.Y., McKenzie, J.E.., Hamilton, D.G., Moher, D., Tugwell, P., Fidler, F.M., Haddaway, N.R., Higgins, J.P.T., Kanukula, R., Karunananthan, S., Maxwell, L.J., McDonald, S., Nakagawa, S., Nunan, D., Welch, V.A. & Page, M.J. (2023, April). . Cochrane Ev Synth, 1(2).
• Nguyen, P.Y., McKenzie, J.E., Hamilton, D.G., Moher, D., Tugwell, P., Fidler, F.M., Haddaway, N.R., Higgins, J.P.T., Kanukula, R., Karunananthan, S., Maxwell, L.J., McDonald, S., Nakagawa, S., Nunan, D., Welch, V.A. & Page, M.J. (2023, March). . Cochrane Ev Synth, 1.
• Hakimjavadi R., Karunananthan S., Alexander G., Fung C., Gazarin M., Houghton D., Hsu A.T., LaPlante J., Levi C., Tanuseputro P., Liddy C. (2023). . BMJ Open, 13(2), e064745.
• Hakimjavadi, R., Karunananthan, S., Fung, C., Levi, C., Helmer-Smith, M., LaPlante, J., Gazarin, M., Rahgozar, A., Afkham, A., Keely, E. & Liddy, C. (2023). . BMC Geriatr, 23, 136.