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Joanna Sale

Scientist
Unity Health Toronto/University of Toronto, Canada

Joanna Sale is a Scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, and Research Program Lead for the Musculoskeletal Health and Outcomes Research group at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto. She is also an Associate Professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation at the University of Toronto, and in the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Sale is a clinical epidemiologist with expertise in qualitative methods and multiple methods research. She previously held a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Her program of research focuses on the patient perspective, medication use, and older adults and includes studies that examine topics such as secondary fracture prevention, understanding risk, navigating the health care system, experiences of the clinical encounter, managing multiple chronic conditions, and caregiving. She has published in the areas of health seeking behaviours, patient perceptions of provider barriers, and factors related to why patients may or may not follow treatment recommendations in a real world setting.

She co-leads the evaluation of the provincial Fracture Screening and Prevention Program, a program within the Ontario Osteoporosis Strategy that is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. While Sale’s main area of research is in bone health (patients with fragility fractures), she is also involved in projects related to pain, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, mental health, asthma, and kidney disease.

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