Peter A Newman

Dr. Peter A. Newman is Full Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, and an affiliate of the UofT Joint Centre for Bioethics. He held the RBC Chair in Applied Social Work Research (2006-2008), an Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research and Innovation, Ontario (2007-2011), and the Canada Research Chair in Health and Social Justice (2007-2018). He is an Inaugural Fellow of the Society for Social Work and Research and was recognized with the CSWE SOGIE Scholarship Award (2012). He is a co-founder of VOICES-Thailand Foundation (Chiang Mai), and a standing member of the UofT Health Sciences Research Ethics Board.

Dr. Newman has been awarded over 11 million dollars in continuous, external PI-research funding. With over 190 refereed publications and over 15,000 citations, he has been recognized as among the most highly cited social work scholars in North America. Dr. Newman's current research program is focused on LGBTIQ inclusion and human rights in Asia. He also leads community-based research on HIV and sexual health with sexual and gender minorities and racialized populations in North America, Asia, and Africa. Newman presently directs the SSHRC Partnership, MFARR-Asia (Mobilizing for a Research Revolution to Ensure LGBTIQ Inclusion in Asia), with 30 academics and 26 community partners in Thailand, India, Hong Kong SAR, Taiwan, Bangladesh, the Philippines and Singapore, in addition to Canada, the UK and US.

Dr. Newman also leads a longstanding research program at the intersections of social science and biomedicine, focused on vaccine acceptability, 'vaccine hesitancy', and structural barriers in access to vaccination--Covid-19, HPV, and future HIV vaccines--among marginalized populations.

Currently, Dr. Newman is the PI on five funded grants from SSHRC, CIHR, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, UofT's Institutional Strategic Initiative (SDGs at UofT) and OVPI Collaborative Research with Institutions in Southeast Asia. He serves as co-Editor-in-Chief of Sexuality and Gender in Social Services; and on the Editorial Boards of PLOS Global Public Health, Culture, Health & Sexuality, Journal of the Society for Social Work & Research, and the Journal of Homosexuality.

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