Dr. dANA WILSON
Dana will begin her position as a Foundational Standard Specialist in Health Equity at the Sudbury and District Health Unit in August 2014. Dana is a health geographer by training and her research broadly focuses on how places and people interact to produce varying health outcomes among populations, with a particular focus on vulnerable populations including young people. Dana is skilled in mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative research) and her research focuses on social determinants of youth development, health inequalities, neighbourhood contexts for health and health-related behaviours such as gambling and risky behaviours, crime prevention, settlement issues for newcomers, and social policy development and evaluation.
Dana’s research interests include youth health-related behaviours like recreation and after school activities; formal and informal sources of support for parents of young children; policy, practice and system changes required to support children and youth; and efforts to reduce health inequalities among vulnerable populations including young people.
Dana is committed to community-based research and gained extensive experience working on community issues related to health, youth development, and crime and well-being through her time in Peel Region (2009-2013) as Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga (www.utm.utoronto.ca), Research Manager at the Peel Children and Youth Initiative (www.pcyi.org), and Vice-Chair of Safe City Mississauga (a non-profit crime prevention organization in Mississauga, www.safecitymississauga.on.ca).
For recent work on recreation and after school activities among youth click here: http://www.pcyi.org/peel-student-research
For recent work on sources of support for parents of young children click here: http://www.pcyi.org/research-parentpolling
Email: [email protected]
Dana’s research interests include youth health-related behaviours like recreation and after school activities; formal and informal sources of support for parents of young children; policy, practice and system changes required to support children and youth; and efforts to reduce health inequalities among vulnerable populations including young people.
Dana is committed to community-based research and gained extensive experience working on community issues related to health, youth development, and crime and well-being through her time in Peel Region (2009-2013) as Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga (www.utm.utoronto.ca), Research Manager at the Peel Children and Youth Initiative (www.pcyi.org), and Vice-Chair of Safe City Mississauga (a non-profit crime prevention organization in Mississauga, www.safecitymississauga.on.ca).
For recent work on recreation and after school activities among youth click here: http://www.pcyi.org/peel-student-research
For recent work on sources of support for parents of young children click here: http://www.pcyi.org/research-parentpolling
Email: [email protected]
