HSPR Talks: 2026 Article of the Year
“Task-Sharing and Telemedicine Delivery of Psychotherapy to Treat Perinatal Depression: A Pragmatic, Noninferiority Randomized Trial”
Presented by Dr. Daisy Singla
Monday, November 30, 2026
12:00pm - 1:00pm ET
Dr. Daisy Singla is a womenmind Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Dr. Singla has pioneered research on scalable, effective, and patient-centered psychotherapies and collaborated with global leaders and local NGOs across rural Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and India. She now brings these lessons to health systems in Canada and the United States. In 2018, she became the youngest recipient of a $13.1M USD Pragmatic Clinical Study Award from the Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute to lead the Scaling Up Maternal Mental health by Increasing access to Treatment (SUMMIT) Trial for pregnant and postpartum populations. Dr. Singla has received numerous awards recognizing her leadership and innovation, including from the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Psychotherapy Research. In sum, Dr. Singla aspires to increase access to evidence-based mental healthcare to enrich the lives of women, children and families in Canada and worldwide.
This award reflects the collective contributions of the SUMMIT Team, whose interdisciplinary scientific, clinical, and lived-experience expertise have been central to its success.
Join us virtually!
Monday, November 30, 2026
12:00pm - 1:00pm ET
About the Moderators
Maggie Keresteci is the Executive Director at CAHSPR. She is an active participant in many provincial and pan-Canadian advisory panels where she provides strategic advice on achieving integration in the health system, including insights about the importance of patient, caregiver and family partnership in research, co-design of care and clinical interactions. Throughout her career Maggie has influenced the delivery of programs and models of care, conceived of and tested health services hypotheses that led to the development of evidence driven policies and leveraged innovation to improve care. She is a volunteer Board director with Emily’s House, Toronto’s only paediatric hospice and is a member of the core group for one of the newly announced Ontario Health Teams.
Dr. Rick Glazier is Scientific Director of the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and a Senior Core Scientist at ICES. He is also a staff family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and a Scientist in its Centre for Urban Health Solutions, a Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, and Dalla Lana School of Public Health. His research interests include evaluating health system transformation, primary care health services delivery models, health of disadvantaged populations, management of chronic conditions, and population-based and geographic methods for improving equity in health.
