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Ian Young

Ian Young

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
EducationBASc, PhD, CPHI(C)
OfficeDCC-320, Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex
Phone416-979-5000, ext. 557614
Areas of ExpertiseFood-borne disease surveillance and prevention; Recreational water illness surveillance and prevention; One Health; Knowledge synthesis; Applied statistical modelling.

Dr. Young is available to supervise Occupational and Public Health (MSc) students in 2026-2027.

Ian Young is an associate professor in the School of Occupational and Public Health. He obtained a bachelor of applied science in public health and safety from 91影视 in 2007 and a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Guelph in 2010. He then worked as a post-doctoral fellow and epidemiologist with the University of Guelph and Public Health Agency of Canada. In 2015, he worked as a food safety expert with the Food Safety and Quality Unit of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, before joining the university in 2016.

  • PUB 609: Water Quality II
  • OH8004: Knowledge Synthesis in Occupational and Public Health

Ian Young鈥檚 research program focuses on reducing the environmental public health burden of food-borne, water-borne and zoonotic diseases. To address this aim, his research group uses a variety of research methods, including knowledge synthesis (e.g. systematic reviews, meta-analysis), epidemiology, and mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative approaches). His main research objectives include:

  • Identifying and synthesizing environmental public health research needs and gaps 
  • Understanding the prevalence and use of health protection behaviours of different population and stakeholder groups, including key determinants of behaviour change
  • Identifying and evaluating strategies and interventions to modify or change the behaviours of individuals and organizations to improve environmental public health
  • Evaluating the epidemiology of and control measures to prevent food-borne, water-borne, and zoonotic diseases