| Professor James R Dunn, McMaster University, Ontario |
| Thu 18 Feb 2016, 17:00 - 19:00 |
| Lecture Theatre 5, Appleton Tower, Crichton Street |
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Jim is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University and a Scientist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. He is the Director of the McMaster Institute for Healthier Environments and holds adjunct appointments at the University of Toronto (Geography and Planning) and the University of Waterloo (Planning). Since 2011, he has been the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, and in 2011-12 he was the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Chair in Canadian Studies at Harvard University. He has published widely in geography, public health, urban planning and epidemiology journals over his career, and in 2012, he co-edited Rethinking Social Epidemiology: Towards a Science of Change with Patricia O’Campo (Springer).
His current research program focuses on the social determinants of health and the influence of economic and social policies, especially urban policies, on inequalities in health and child development, concentrating on urban housing and neighbourhoods. Specifically, his work includes projects on the health and social impacts of public housing redevelopment, such as Toronto’s Regent Park, health and child development, the effects of housing improvement more generally on health and child development, and the development of place-based cross-sectoral (between public health and urban planning) policy implementation solutions for urban health problems.