James Dunn

Dr. Jim Dunn holds a Chair in Applied Public Health from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Public Health Agency of Canada on Interventions in Residential Neighbourhoods and Population Health. He is a Research Scientist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health (CRICH) at St. Michael's Hospital,Toronto, and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Geography and Planning and Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto.

His background is in the social geography of health, having earned a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University in 1999. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Social Science and Medicine andHealth Reports and has been a scientific advisor to a number ofpolicy-related bodies, including the Privy Council Office of Canada, Health Canada, the National Housing Research Committee ofCanada and the World Health Organization Regional Office forEurope. His research program focuses on questions regarding the social determinants of health and the influence of economic and social policies and programs on health inequalities, with a focus on urban housing and neighbourhoods.

He has several projects related to the role of housing and neighbourhood in the production of social inequalities in health. Among these is a project investigating the impact of the redevelopment of the RegentPark neighbourhood in Toronto, one of Canada's oldest and largest public housing developments, on adult mental health and children's developmental health and competencies.

See the St. Michael's Hospital website for more information.