Dr. Zahra Shakeri is an expert in health information visualization. Dr. Shakeri and the HIVE Lab team created databases integral to the projects Lead in Drinking Water and Patient Files.

Dr. Aaron Goodarzi and his team spent years gathering data and creating Canada’s largest set of residential radon test results. In early 2021, he shared this data with IJB and Toronto Star reporters and we collaborated to bring it to the public’s attention. Invisible Threat used never-before published national data revealing striking –– and growing –– levels of deadly radon gas inside millions of Canadian homes.

Dr. Blair Bigham was a key player into an investigation into nurses in the Niagara Health System who are facing overwhelming patient loads. Blair Bigham is an Assistant Professor and Senior Editor at the IJB, an award-winning journalist, and a physician who trained in emergency and critical care medicine at McMaster and Stanford Universities. 

Dr. Arthur Caplan is a professor and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Department of Population Health in New York City. Dr. Caplan is featured on Insights and Heliograph.

During the Investigative Journalism Bureau’s inaugural project Generation Distress, Neil Seeman served as the founder and CEO of RIWI, which was integral to collecting the opinions of more than 6,000 Canadian and American university and college students for the project.

Dr. Dan Werb brought a study, which found a 67 per cent reduction in overdose deaths in neighbourhoods within 500 metres of supervised consumption sites after they opened, to the IJB. The IJB brought in additional expert opinions, sought out voices, and co-published a story with the Toronto Star on the effect of safe consumption sites on overdose deaths.