Avi Biswas PhD

Dr. Avi Biswas is a scientist at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto, an associate professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and also president of the Canadian Association for Research on Work & Health (CARWH). His research focuses on understanding ways to promote worker wellbeing and healthy physical activity across diverse occupational contexts.

Biswas obtained his PhD in health services research at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. During his PhD studies, he received a doctoral research fellowship from the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and was a past recipient of the University of Toronto’s Ted Goldberg award for academic excellence and promise in health services research. Biswas was previously a Mustard post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Work & Health (2017-2019).

Biswas’s research examines how physically demanding work, combined with other work and non-work conditions, including environmental exposures, contribute to the risk of worker injury and chronic disease. He also investigates ways to promote worker wellbeing and healthy physical activity across diverse work contexts.  His studies draw on survey and administrative data as well as systematic reviews.