Our Team
Dr. Samantha Biglieri, MCIP, RPP (she/her)
Director - HAP Lab + Associate Professor
Samantha Biglieri is an Associate Professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University and Director of the Health, Access + Planning Lab. As a Registered Professional Planner, her research uses critical approaches at the intersection of planning and health/wellbeing, making connections with practice to build inclusive and accessible communities. She researches the intersections of built form, health/ wellbeing, socio-spatial relationalities, care, accessibility and disability, older adults, and people living with dementia.
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Salma Abdalla
Research Assistant
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Venus Cheung
Research Assistant
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Madalynne Lawrence
M.Pl. Student
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Brian Ogryzlo
Research Assistant
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Jeffery Wong
Research Assistant
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Roslyn Vijayakumar
Research Coordinator
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Omar Hirji
Research Assistant
Affiliated Researchers
Maxwell Hartt (Queen's University)
Rachel Weldrick (Concordia Univeristy)
Laura Middleton (University of Waterloo)
Kimberly Lopez (University of Waterloo)
Lorenzo De Vidovich (Università di Trieste)
Roger Keil (York University)
Timothy Ross (Holland Bloorview)
Marisa Turesky (University of Southern California)
HAP Lab Alumni
Lauren White
Dustin McDonald
Sophia Luu
Morgan Baker
Merve Kolcak