Researchers
Full Team
Dr. Vicki L Kristman
Director and Scientist
- CIHR New Investigator Award in Community-based Primary Health Care
- Associate Professor, Department of Health Sciences
- Associate Professor, Northern Ontario School of Medicine
- Associate Scientist, Institute for Work & Health
- Expertise: epidemiologic methodology, injury and work disability prevention
Dr. Kathryn Sinden
Associate Scientist
- Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology
- Assistant Professor (Part time), School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University
- Affiliate Member, Centre for Research in Occupational Safety and Health
- Expertise: applied ergonomics, work and health, gender and work, knowledge Translation
Dr. Lori Chambers
Senior Scientist
- Professor, Women's Studies
- Expertise: Sex, gender and law
Dr. Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio
Associate Scientist
- Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
- Director, Centre for Health Care Ethics
- Associated Medical Services (AMS) Phoenix Fellow
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Sciences
- Expertise: mental health and addictions, resilience and well-being, narrative inquiry, ethics and moral distress
Dr. Anna Koné Péfoyo
Associate Scientist
- Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences
- Expertise: Epidemiology and biostatistics; health services research and outcomes
Dr. Lynn Martin
Scientist
- Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Health Sciences
- Expertise: Health and service utilization of vulnerable populations (intellectual or developmental disabilities, mental health disorders, older adults)
Dr. Christopher Mushquash
Scientist
- Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Mental Health and Addiction
- Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
- Associate Professor, Northern Ontario School of Medicine
- Director, Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research
- Psychologist, Dilico Anishinabek Family Care
- Expertise: Indigenous mental health and addiction, Indigenous health
Dr. Kathy Sanderson
Associate Scientist
- Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business Administration
- Expertise: Ostracism in the workplace
Dr. Deborah Scharf
Associate Scientist
- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
- Healthcare access for poor and underserved groups, behavioural health delivery systems
Dr. Amanda Maranzan
- Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
- Expertise: Stigma, mental health, and wellness
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Dr. Jo-Ann Vis
Scientist
- Associate Professor, School of Social Work
- Expertise: Participatory Action Research (PAR) Mental Health/Peer support; Occupational Stress injury
Adjunct Members
Dr. Monique Gignac
Adjunct Scientist
- Associate Scientific Director & Senior Scientist, Institute for Work & Health
- Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
- Expertise: psychosocial aspects of work; chronic disease and employment; disability management and accommodation; aging and work; survey methods; measurement; qualitative methods
Dr. William Shaw
Adjunct Scientist
- Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut Health Center
- Expertise: Clinical psychology, occupational health and safety, return-to-work, musculoskeletal disorders
Dr. Arif Jetha
Adjunct Scientist
- Scientist, Institute for Work & Health
- Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Dr. Manal Alzghoul
Associate Scientist
- Associate Professor, Brock University
Dr. Salimur Choudhury
Asociate Scientist
- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Computing, Queen’s University, ON, Canada
- Expertise: Use of information technology
Dr. Rebecca Schiff
Scientist
- Dean, Faculty of Human and Health Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia
- Expertise: poverty, housing and homelessness, food security, indigenous health, rural and remote health, social exclusion, sustainable development
Dr. Joshua Armstrong
Associate Scientist
- Research Scientist at the Alzheimer Society of Canada
Dr. Fergal O'Hagan
Associate Scientist
- Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Trent University
- Registered Kinesiologist with the Ontario College of Kinesiologists
Dr. Afshin Vafaei
Associate Scientist
- Centre for Studies in Primary Care, Queen's Family Medicine