📢 NEW! We examined the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in older adults living in social housing: 🔹 87% reported issues in 1+ health dimension 🔹HRQoL scores were lower compared to the general population across all age groups 🔹Social support linked to better outcomes

Please join us in welcoming our new students to the VIP Research Lab! 🎉 We're excited to have Alexandra, Raeanna, and Audrey (MPH students), along with Zoya (an undergraduate student), joining our team. We look forward to working together this summer!

🌟Last week, Dr @GinaAgarwall presented @CAHSPR on ‘Healthcare utilization and preventive care among social housing residents compared to the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada’ Read the paper here: frontiersin.org/journals/pub…

Dr. @GinaAgarwall & PhD candidate @Jasdeep_B, working with colleagues Dr. @HarrietElizab15 & Dr. Amogh Mudbhaktal today at the Lincoln Institute for Rural and Coastal Health (LIRCH) on a collaborative project in the UK

📢 New in @FrontPubHealth This paper describes the new Social Housing of Ontario (SHO) registry, which has 2,109 social housing sites. This ground-breaking resource will impact future health research and decision making for social housing @GinaAgarwall 🔗doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1…

Dr @GinaAgarwall has joined the Quarter Century Club @McMasterU! Yesterday, Dr. Agarwal attended the celebratory lunch and received a McMaster tartan blanket to acknowledge her contribution of 25 Years of Service. Congratulations Gina!

Drs @ginaagarwall & @ricangeles, & the @AdZUOfficial CHAP-P team are hosting a KT meeting in the Philippines with national, regional, and local policy makers to present the impact of CHAP-P in a geopolitical region & discuss knowledge uptake into the Philippine health system.

📢 New in @FrontPubHealth Using administrative health data in Ontario, social housing residents had lower uptake of preventive health services, such as cancer screening and flu vaccination, compared to the general public during COVID-19 🔗doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1… @GinaAgarwall

📢 New Study! Free legal assistance was given to patients in a primary care office, providing referrals, resources and direction on legal issues. Future iterations may include additional scope/support and inclusion of patient advocate roles. 🔗doi.org/10.1186/s12913-025-1…

📢 New in @PubHealth_BMC Through interviews, we found older adults prefer one-on-one, in-person interactions with family physicians. Educational brochures can be promoted during patient visits for chronic disease prevention efforts. 🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-2… @GinaAgarwall

@Jasdeep_B, PhD Candidate supervised by @GinaAgarwal, presented at the Asian Health Literacy Conference in Taiwan on sex/gender differences impacting functional health literacy in chronic conditions & health behaviours of low-income older adults in the Philippines and Canada