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Christopher McLeod

ResearcherSociologyUniversity of British Columbia

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Christopher McLeod

Researcher

Sociology

Health Sciences

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
6 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 4 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (4 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 5 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2022.

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Research

Occupational Health Vulnerable Populations Health Inequity Social Determinants Of Health Substance Use Trades And Construction Covid19 Mixed-Methods

Latest papers

Managing risk and reward: Exploring immigrant platform workers' occupational safety and wellbeing through a sociotechnical lens.
Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2026 · senior author
Did implementation of no-fault auto-insurance in British Columbia, Canada, impact return to work following road trauma? Protocol for a before-after survival analysis.
BMJ open · 2023
Do patterns of past asbestos use and production reflect current geographic variations of cancer risk?: mesothelioma in Ontario and British Columbia, Canada.
Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2023 · senior author

All 9 publications

Latest funding

Substance Use, Work and Well-Being in Trades and Construction
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$1,870,424
Unequal Ageing Trajectories Across the Life Course: Environmental Pathways, Protective Factors, and Actionable Levers
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$719,100
Addressing suicide and substance use in construction: A Canadian industry-research partnership
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$150,000

All 17 grants and awards

9 publications.

Managing risk and reward: Exploring immigrant platform workers' occupational safety and wellbeing through a sociotechnical lens.

Yekta AR, Huot S, O'Brien H, McLeod C

Work (Reading, Mass.)2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/10519815261478116 PMID: 42613590

Did implementation of no-fault auto-insurance in British Columbia, Canada, impact return to work following road trauma? Protocol for a before-after survival analysis.

Chan H, Erdelyi S, Jiang A, McLeod C, Koehoorn M, Brubacher JR

BMJ open2023

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075858 PMID: 37739458

Do patterns of past asbestos use and production reflect current geographic variations of cancer risk?: mesothelioma in Ontario and British Columbia, Canada.

Slavik CE, Demers PA, Tamburic L, Warden H, McLeod C

Cancer causes & control : CCC2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s10552-023-01672-4 PMID: 36729166

Return-to-Work After Work-Related Injury in the Construction Sector: A Scoping Review.

Sharpe K, Afshar T, St-Hilaire F, McLeod C

Journal of occupational rehabilitation2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s10926-022-10028-9 PMID: 35178661

A Framework for Understanding How Variation in Health Care Service Delivery Affects Work Disability Management.

Sharpe K, McGrail K, Mustard C, McLeod C

Journal of occupational rehabilitation2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s10926-021-10016-5 PMID: 35138519

Occupational Exposure to Wood Dust and the Burden of Nasopharynx and Sinonasal Cancer in Canada

Mofidi A, Tompa E, Kalcevich C, McLeod C, Lebeau M, Song C, Kim J, Demers PA

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health202212 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19031144 PMID: W4205663723

Immigrant status, gender and work disability duration: findings from a linked, retrospective cohort of workers' compensation and immigration data from British Columbia, Canada.

Saffari N, Senthanar S, Koehoorn M, McGrail K, McLeod C

BMJ open2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050829 PMID: 34872998

The relationship between chronic conditions and absenteeism and associated costs in Canada.

Zhang W, McLeod C, Koehoorn M

Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health2016

DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.3583 PMID: 27510927

Prevention in dangerous industries: does safety certification prevent tree-faller injuries?

McLeod C, Sarkany D, Davies H, Lyons K, Koehoorn M

Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health2015First author

DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.3517 PMID: 26244646

Substance Use, Work and Well-Being in Trades and Construction

Principal investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Richardson, Lindsey; McLeod, Christopher B

Keywords: Health Inequity; Occupational Health; Social Determinants Of Health; Substance Use; Trades And Construction

$1,870,424

Unequal Ageing Trajectories Across the Life Course: Environmental Pathways, Protective Factors, and Actionable Levers

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Stringhini, Silvia

Keywords: Aging; Cohort; Disadvantage; Environment; Equity; Evidence; Life-Course; Mechanisms; Social Determinants

$719,100

Addressing suicide and substance use in construction: A Canadian industry-research partnership

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Catalyst Gr.: Partnering for Impact - Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction

Principal investigators: Carnide, Nancy; Martin, Kathy

Keywords: Administrative Data Analysis; Co-Production; Construction Industry; Construction Workers; Environmental Scan; Interventions, Programs, Resources; Self-Harm; Stakeholder Engagement; Substance Use; Suicide

$150,000

The impact of 12-hour overnight shifts on nurses' driving safety: A high-fidelity driver simulator study.

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Brubacher, Jeffrey R

Keywords: Automobile Driving; Cognition; Driving Simulator; Nurses; Quasi-Experimental Design; Road Safety; Shift Work; Sleep Deprivation

$451,352

Explaining life-course socio-economic inequalities in ageing trajectories

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant - PA: Population and Public Health - Early Career Investigator

Principal investigators: Stringhini, Silvia

Keywords: Aging; Cohort; Disadvantage; Environment; Life-Course; Social Determinants

$100,000

Trajectories of work productivity loss: Working from home and insights during COVID-19

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Catalyst Grant: Analysis of CLSA Data - IPPH Mandate Early Career Researcher

Principal investigators: Zhang, Wei

Keywords: Aging Working Population; Burden Of Illness; Covid-19; Employment; Presenteeism; Sex- And Gender-Based Analysis; Work Productivity Loss; Working From Home

$70,000

Understanding heat-related illness, injury, and differential vulnerability among workers in British Columbia

SupervisorCIHR2022Doctoral Research Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Guo, Xiaocong

Keywords: Case-Crossover; Climate Change; Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Extreme Heat; Heat Illness; Occupational Health And Safety; Workplace Injury

$105,000

Working in the time of COVID-19: Exploring the effect of COVID-19 policies on violence, bullying and harassment in the service sector in British Columbia

Nominated PICIHR2021Op. Gr.: Addr. Wider Impacts of COVID-Imp. on social/econ/pop iss/pbl outcomes

Principal investigators: McLeod, Christopher B; Deering, Kathleen N

Keywords: Covid19; Mixed-Methods; Violence/Bullying/Harrassment; Workplace; Young Workers

$487,604

School of Population and Public Health

SupervisorCIHR2017Canada Graduate Scholarships - Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements

Principal investigators: Minh, Anita

Keywords: Adolescence; Early Adulthood; Inequalities; Mental Health; Social Policies

$6,000

Immigration and work disability in the Canadian context

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Koehoorn, Mieke W

Keywords: Immigration; Occupational Epidemiology; Population-Based Data Linkage Study; Work And Health; Work Disability; Workers' Compensation

$340,426

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Christopher McLeod

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Managing risk and reward: Exploring immigrant platform workers' occupational safety and wellbeing through a sociotechnical lens.

Did implementation of no-fault auto-insurance in British Columbia, Canada, impact return to work following road trauma? Protocol for a before-after survival analysis.

Do patterns of past asbestos use and production reflect current geographic variations of cancer risk?: mesothelioma in Ontario and British Columbia, Canada.

Return-to-Work After Work-Related Injury in the Construction Sector: A Scoping Review.

A Framework for Understanding How Variation in Health Care Service Delivery Affects Work Disability Management.

Occupational Exposure to Wood Dust and the Burden of Nasopharynx and Sinonasal Cancer in Canada

Immigrant status, gender and work disability duration: findings from a linked, retrospective cohort of workers' compensation and immigration data from British Columbia, Canada.

The relationship between chronic conditions and absenteeism and associated costs in Canada.

Prevention in dangerous industries: does safety certification prevent tree-faller injuries?

Substance Use, Work and Well-Being in Trades and Construction

Unequal Ageing Trajectories Across the Life Course: Environmental Pathways, Protective Factors, and Actionable Levers

Addressing suicide and substance use in construction: A Canadian industry-research partnership

The impact of 12-hour overnight shifts on nurses' driving safety: A high-fidelity driver simulator study.

Explaining life-course socio-economic inequalities in ageing trajectories

Trajectories of work productivity loss: Working from home and insights during COVID-19

Understanding heat-related illness, injury, and differential vulnerability among workers in British Columbia

Working in the time of COVID-19: Exploring the effect of COVID-19 policies on violence, bullying and harassment in the service sector in British Columbia

School of Population and Public Health

Immigration and work disability in the Canadian context

Frequent collaborators

Mieke Koehoorn

Kimberlyn McGrail

Cameron Mustard

Wei Zhang

Heather O'Brien

Emile Tompa

Emile Tompa