Andrea Tricco

Please note: Dr. Tricco is not taking any summer students in 2025.

Andrea Tricco holds a MSc in Epidemiology and PhD in Population Health. She is a Scientist and the Executive Director of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation. She is also an Adjunct and Associate Graduate Faculty with Faculty of Health Sciences at Ontario Tech University. Her research interests are related to responding to decision-makers (including policy-makers, healthcare providers, and patients) through knowledge synthesis. Her research focuses on advancing the science of knowledge synthesis and she is leading research projects related to rapid reviews, network meta-analysis, and scoping reviews.

Dr. Tricco has published >385 journal article publications. She currently holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Synthesis for knowledge Users and has been recognized as one of the most highly cited researchers in the world. She is the director of an online systematic review course that >640 students, staff and knowledge users have completed, which is offered through the University of Toronto. She is the Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.

Other Appointments & Affiliations

• Executive Director, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Unity Health Toronto
• Adjunct and Associate Graduate Faculty, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University
• Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
• Chair, JBI Scoping Review Methodology Group
• Member, Royal Society of Canada, 2021-2028
• Member, Research Training Centre (RTC) Advisory Committee, Unity Health Toronto, 2024-present
• Member of the Research Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (REDI) Task Force, Unity Health Toronto, 2021-2023
• Member of the St. Michael’s Hospital Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Community of Practice, 2020-2022
• Member of the Advisory Committee, Health Data Research Network Canada (HDRN), Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Canadian Data Platform (SPOR CDP), 2020-2023
• Member of the JBI Scientific Committee, North American Region Representative, 2020-2022
• Member, Editorial Board for BMC Medicine, Systematic Reviews, and JBI Evidence Reviews
• Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (2003-present)