Campus
- Mississauga (UTM)
Fields of Study
- Health
Areas of Interest
Built environment, health equity, urban health, social and environmental determinants of health, type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, immigrant health
Biography
Ghazal Fazli is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga and her research explores the impact of social, community, and environmental determinants of prediabetes and diabetes. As an epidemiologist, Ghazal has deep interests for research and policy initiatives that promote action on the social and environmental determinants of health to improve wellbeing and quality of life across the lifespan.
Publications
Zehra A, Gerstle D, Ali FM, Ali M, Mejia-Lancheros C, Fazli GS. A Scoping Review on Community-based Diabetes Screening Interventions: Paving the Pathway to Early Care and Prevention of Diabetes. Curr Diab Rep. 2025 Oct 4;25(1):51. doi: 10.1007/s11892-025-01605-2
Fazli GS, Lipscombe LL. Moving Beyond One-size-fits-all Solutions: The Importance of Adopting a Health Equity Lens for Addressing the Diabetes Epidemic. Can J Diabetes; 2023;47:625-626
Fazli GS, Booth GL. Call for Action on the Upstream Determinants of Diabetes among Marginalized Populations. Canadian Journal of Diabetes; 2023 47;7: 618-624
Fazli GS, Bierman AS, Moineddin R, Booth GL. Neighborhood walkability and pre-diabetes incidence in a multiethnic population. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care 2020; BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care. 2020; 8: e000908.
Fazli GS, Bierman AS, Moineddin R, Booth GL. Ethnic variation in the conversion of prediabetes to diabetes among immigrant populations relative to long-term residents: A population-based cohort study. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care 2020; BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care. 2020; 8(1): e000907.