Adjunct scientists

The Institute offers adjunct scientist appointments to collaborating researchers who make sustained contributions to IWH research projects or programs. Adjunct scientists also contribute to the Institute's working paper series and offer independent reviews of IWH studies.

is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada. Her research interests include examining the social determinants of health such as work, retirement, income security, gender and age. She is also involved in health behaviour studies such as how people make decisions about medication and how those with chronic illness use the health-care system.

is an associate professor in the Department of Health Studies and Gerontology at the University of Waterloo, and has an appointment in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Bigelow teaches courses in occupational health, risk assessment, and epidemiology and is a faculty member in the Collaborative PhD Program in Work and Health. He has had extensive field experience in occupational health and safety. His research is in the area of risk assessment and on the effectiveness of interventions to prevent occupational injuries and disease.

is an associate professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the University Medical Center in Groningen (UMCG), the Netherlands. Her research interests include the epidemiology of work and health, the impact of the psychosocial work environment on workers' health including mental health, and the prevention of work disability. She is involved in collaborative projects on work and health in Denmark and Canada.

is an associate professor of epidemiology in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She holds a Health Scholar Award from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. Her research focuses on psychological aspects of musculoskeletal disorders, with an emphasis on examining the interface between depression, coping, chronic pain disability and recovery from soft-tissue injuries.

is director of the Centre of Research Expertise in Improved Disability Outcomes (CREIDO) and a senior scientist in the Division Health Care and Outcomes Research at the Toronto Western Research Institute. He is also a professor of epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Cassidy's research interests include musculoskeletal and injury epidemiology, as well as evidence-based health care.

has taught at more than a dozen universities around the world. He currently holds the Ontario Chair in Health Policy and System Design at the University of Toronto. He holds an honorary doctorate in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics. He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Health Economics and has been on the boards of journals of health economics, medicine, medical ethics, social science and medical law. He was the vice-chair of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in London, England, and was IWH's chief scientist from 2003 to 2006.

is an economist and president of his company, DeRango Associates. He has a background in economics and political science, and earned his PhD at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in May 2000. DeRango is a visiting professor at Kalamazoo College in Michigan. From 1999 to 2007, he worked as a research fellow at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo. He has worked on several cost-effectiveness assessments of ergonomic interventions and has a continued interest in collaborating on these issues.

is a sociologist and qualitative research methodologist in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on work and health, particularly the relationship between health and the social relations of work. Most of her research has centred on prevention and return to work in small workplaces. Current/recent studies include home health-care work, return-to-work policy and practice, front-line service work in Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, and physicians' role in compensation.

is a clinical psychologist and an an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, at the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, and at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on return-to-work/stay-at-work processes and outcomes in workers with physical or mental health conditions. She has conducted systematic reviews, intervention studies and cohort studies. Dr. Franche is a consultant in work disability prevention, providing best practices development, implementation and evaluation; research grant planning and writing; writing of scientific and public documents; case management consultation; facilitation. Email: rfranche@sfu.ca

is a senior scientist with the Toronto Western Research Institute at the University Health Network in Toronto. She is also an associate professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto and co-scientific director of the Canadian Arthritis Network. Dr. Gignac is a social psychologist who studies coping and adaptation to chronic stress, especially working with a chronic illness and disability.

is an associate professor of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Texas School of Public Health at San Antonio. He is also a senior research associate of the Whitehall II Study in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health at University College London Medical School. His research focuses on occupational and social epidemiology, with emphasis on the measurement of employment status, work organizational exposures and workers’ health and health-related productivity, social inequalities in health and aging, and the use of multi-level statistical models.

is a physician, health economist and research scientist with the Health Systems Research and Consulting Unit at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. He is also a lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. His background is in medicine (psychiatry) and health policy, and his current research interests include psychiatric disability and workers' compensation. He recently completed a PhD in health policy (with an economics concentration) from Harvard University.

is a professor in the Department of Economics and in the Gerontology Studies Program at McMaster University in Hamilton. His research interests include issues related to health-care financing, such as the impact of supplemental health-care insurance on welfare, equity in financing, and regulation of universal coverage for the poor. He also conducts research on the economics of health-care distribution and delivery, including determinants and patterns of health-care consumption across income and age groups.

is chief scientific and medical director for the Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare in British Columbia. He is also assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia. His research interests relate to preventing disability in people with musculoskeletal injuries. His most recent publications deal with how to obtain sustainable disability prevention through collaborative action and how to best integrate the perspectives of different stakeholders into research.

is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health & Epidemiology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her research experience and expertise includes systematic review and meta-analysis methods, prognostic research and musculoskeletal health—specifically low-back pain.

is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. She also holds an associate graduate faculty appointment in the Department of Psychology at the University of Guelph. Hepburn specializes in organizational psychology. Her research interests include the impact of workplace factors—such as perceptions of justice or fairness, safety climate, workplace aggression and work-family balance—on employee well-being.

is director of the Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease (CREOD), which is based at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. She is an associate professor in the Departments of Public Health Sciences; Medicine; and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Her main research interests are occupational skin and lung disease, occupational health services program delivery, and workplace health and safety issues.

is an associate professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto, with cross appointments to the Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science and the Department of Psychiatry. She conducts research in community mental health and employment, and has investigated Canadian principles and practices in work integration for people with mental illness. Kirsh is currently studying the mental health and well-being of injured workers in Ontario.

is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia (UBC) and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar. She also holds an appointment with the School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene at UBC. Her research interests focus on the epidemiology of work-related musculoskeletal injuries, in particular among health-care workers. Koehoorn also conducts research on the relationship between work organization and the health of health-care workers, and the epidemiology of injuries among young workers.

is associate director at the Centre of Research Expertise for the Prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders (CRE-MSD) at the University of Waterloo. She is a research assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests are in knowledge transfer, diffusion of innovation, adult education, and organizational change in the construction, transportation, electrical utilities and manufacturing sectors. She is an adjunct professor in the School of Occupational and Public Health at Ryerson University. She teaches courses within Ryerson's certificate program in occupational health and safety.

is the interim director of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and interim chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences, commencing September 1, 2010 up to June 30, 2011. Professor Lemieux-Charles will continue to hold the position of chair of the Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation. She is a full professor and an expert in the study of the performance of health service delivery systems including leadership and evidence-based decision-making.
 

is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa and holds the Canada Research Chair in Occupational Health and Safety Law. Lippel specializes in legal issues relating to occupational health and safety and workers' compensation, and has authored several articles and books in this area. Her research interests include work and mental health; health effects of compensation systems; policy, precarious employment and occupational health; women's occupational health; and regulatory issues in occupational health and safety.

is a post-doctoral fellow in the College for Interdisciplinary Studies and associate faculty at the School of Population and Public Health and the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He has a PhD in population and public health from UBC. He is a key member of a partnership between UBC and WorkSafeBC that seeks to develop and use linked administrative data to support occupational health and compensation policy research. More broadly, he is conducting research to understand the influence of societal and institutional factors in reducing work-related health inequalities.

is an assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science at York University in Toronto. Her research interests include physical exposure assessment for work-related musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limb, occupational assessment and modeling of the upper limb during repetitive manual tasks. She is particularly interested in work-rest cycles and has used psychophysical adjustment approaches to assess acceptable demands on the hands during manual tasks.

is the Psychiatry and Addictions Nursing Research Chair, Social Equity and Health Section at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He is also professor of nursing, public health sciences and psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Muntaner's research focuses on social class, politics, work organization and health within a global perspective. He is the recipient of the Wade Hampton Frost award of the American Public Health Association and a chair of the Employment Conditions HUB of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health.

is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Ryerson University in Toronto. Neumann has been engaged in both epidemiological studies of low-back pain in the auto sector and in ergonomic intervention research. Dr. Neumann’s research now focuses on designing work systems that are both highly competitive and humanly sustainable through improved design processes and the development of human factors simulation tools.

is an occupational therapist and sociologist. She is chair of the Department of Occupational Sciences and Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto. She is also senior scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. Rappolt is studying the effectiveness of occupational therapy for sustained re-engagement work roles following illness or injury. She also conducts research in knowledge translation and exchange that focus on models for research use in clinical practice, and organizational capacity to support evidence-based professional practices.

is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Victoria. He is a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in the Social Determinants of Community Health and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar. Ostry conducts research on the social determinants of health with a focus on workplace health, nutrition policy and health, and rural and northern health.

is director of the Center for Disability Research at the Liberty Mutual Research Center for Safety and Health in the United States. He holds appointments at the University of Massachusetts in its medical school and School of Public Health, as well as the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Occupational and Environmental Health. His research interests are in disability and outcome measurement, particularly for work-related musculoskeletal disorders.

is director of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ). He holds a PhD in economics from Brown University. As a labour economist, he has a national reputation in the United States for his work on workers' compensation policy and the impact of disability on employment. He has written extensively on workers' compensation in California, New Mexico and other states. Reville is a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). 

trained in the United Kingdom in mathematics and statistics. He is a professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McMaster University, where he has been a faculty member since 1977. He also holds an appointment in public health sciences at the University of Toronto. He is a past president of the Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health (CARWH), and has published extensively in this field. Shannon's research interests include musculoskeletal and other work-related injuries and the relationship between work stress, workplace organization, and health and safety.

is a professor in the Departments of Kinesiology and Sociology at the University of Waterloo. She teaches courses in the sociology of health; work and health; and social aspects of injuries in sport and work. Theberge conducts research on participatory ergonomics (PE) and the social factors related to successful implementation of PE programs. She has a related research program on the professional practices of ergonomists and human factors engineers.

is a scientist at the Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment (THETA) Collaborative, and a scientific associate in the Division of Decision Making and Health Care Research, Toronto General Research Institute, University Health Network. Her work at THETA focuses on health technology assessment, including systematic review, meta-analysis and economic evaluation. Her research expertise also includes the measurement of health-related quality-of-life, including Rasch analysis of health instruments and valuation of health for economic evaluation.

is an epidemiologist at the Department of Health Sciences and the EMGO Institute of the VU University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is also coordinating editor of the Cochrane Back Review Group. Van Tulder is the author of many scientific papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has written several books and book chapters. His interests are in evidence-based practice and include trials, systematic reviews and economic evaluations of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions for musculoskeletal disorders. He also participated in or chaired several guideline committees on back pain.

is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo (UW) and director of the Centre of Research Expertise in Musculoskeletal Disorders (CRE-MSD). He is also the director of UW’s Ergonomics & Safety Consulting Service, which is an information dissemination and consulting centre. He specializes in applied mechanics as it applies to human function and injury. For the last decade, his main research and training interests have been work-related musculoskeletal disorders of the upper extremity and low back in industrial and office settings.

(P.Eng) is an associate professor in the School of Occupational and Public Health at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her research interests include the application of human factors engineering to occupational and public safety issues of human performance and error; interface design; accident investigation and safety inspection expertise, practices and tools; and disability and accessibility, particularly deafness and hearing loss.