Dionne Gesink MSc, PhD

Dionne Gesink, MSc, PhD is a Professor at the University of Toronto. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My research investigates the social epidemiology of sexual health, including the spatial movement of diseases and ideas through social/sexual networks. My ideas emerge from a transformative, relational paradigm. I use mixed methods to investigate sexual health as a complex system, with connections to physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social health. The projects I am involved with are often community-based and consider culture. I have worked with Indigenous, marginalized, and hard-to-reach communities, as well as the general population, to develop effective interventions that transform sexual health at the individual, community, and provincial levels.