Julia Woodhall-Melnik

Research

Administrative Data Linking Healthcare Use Housing Housing Instability Low-Income Mental Health Poverty Prospective Study

Latest papers

The impact of place on health: Neighbourhood & residential satisfaction as a contributor to physical and mental health in applicants for publicly subsidized housing
Health and Place · 2026
Housing First for Youth Who Experience Homelessness: A Systematic Review.
Urban affairs review (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2025 · first author
Housing and Support Intervention and Mortality Among Homeless Adults With Mental Illnesses: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA network open · 2025

All 10 publications

Latest funding

Troubling Disability in Housing Needs Assessments: A case study of people with intellectual and development disabilities in New Brunswick, Canada.
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$30,924
Advancing Socio-Economic Research for Evidence-Informed Public Health Decision-Making
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$63,190
Resilient Communities
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$215,000

All 5 grants and awards

10 publications.

01

The impact of place on health: Neighbourhood & residential satisfaction as a contributor to physical and mental health in applicants for publicly subsidized housing

Taylor NC, Woodhall-Melnik J, Lamont A, Dunn JR, Nombro E, Dutton DJ

Health and Place2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2026.103641

02

Housing First for Youth Who Experience Homelessness: A Systematic Review.

Woodhall-Melnik J, Monette C, Reiser C, LeBlanc Haley T

Urban affairs review (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)2025First author

DOI: 10.1177/10780874251314838 PMID: 40703848

03

Housing and Support Intervention and Mortality Among Homeless Adults With Mental Illnesses: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

Lachaud J, Nisenbaum R, Mejia-Lancheros C, Latimer E, Aubry T, Woodhall-Melnik J, Distasio J, Hinds A, Dutton D, Somers J, Moniruzzaman A, Stergiopoulos V, O'Campo P, Hwang SW

JAMA network open2025

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.24302 PMID: 40742585

04

High support housing for people with serious mental illness in Canada: a scoping review.

Sosnowski A, Ravazolli Martins M, Latimer EA, Sirotich F, Woodhall-Melnik J, Kerman N, Stergiopoulos V

Frontiers in psychiatry2025

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1612516 PMID: 40630758

05

Females and Housing First: An analysis of 18-month outcomes in a randomized controlled trial.

Isaak CA, Nelson G, Roebuck M, Aubry T, Macnaughton E, Kirst M, O'Campo P, Woodhall-Melnik J, Agha A, Faruquzzaman O, Purcell S

Journal of community psychology2024

DOI: 10.1002/jcop.23131 PMID: 39030977

06

Commentary on Vandenberg et al.: The next step of developing and testing evidence-based interventions for older adults who experience problem gambling and homelessness.

Woodhall-Melnik J, Matheson FI

Addiction (Abingdon, England)2022First author

DOI: 10.1111/add.15876 PMID: 35332967

07

Prevalence of Problem Gambling Among Women Using Shelter and Drop-in Services.

Matheson FI, Dastoori P, Hahmann T, Woodhall-Melnik J, Guilcher SJT, Hamilton-Wright S

International journal of mental health and addiction2022

DOI: 10.1007/s11469-021-00524-z PMID: 35966627

08

Associations of resilience with quality of life levels in adults experiencing homelessness and mental illness: a longitudinal study.

Mejia-Lancheros C, Woodhall-Melnik J, Wang R, Hwang SW, Stergiopoulos V, Durbin A

Health and quality of life outcomes2021

DOI: 10.1186/s12955-021-01713-z PMID: 33663538

09

Longitudinal interrelationships of mental health discrimination and stigma with housing and well-being outcomes in adults with mental illness and recent experience of homelessness.

Mejia-Lancheros C, Lachaud J, Woodhall-Melnik J, O'Campo P, Hwang SW, Stergiopoulos V

Social science & medicine (1982)2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113463 PMID: 33120207

10

Perceptions of Mental Health and Wellbeing Following Residential Displacement and Damage from the 2018 St. John River Flood.

Woodhall-Melnik J, Grogan C

International journal of environmental research and public health2019First author

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16214174 PMID: 31671838

Troubling Disability in Housing Needs Assessments: A case study of people with intellectual and development disabilities in New Brunswick, Canada.

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Haley, Elizabeth

Keywords: Housing; Intellectual Disability; Mixed-methods; Community-engaged research; New Brunswick

$30,924

Advancing Socio-Economic Research for Evidence-Informed Public Health Decision-Making

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Woodhall-Melnik, Julia

Keywords: Advancing Socio-Economic Research for Evidence-Informed Public Health Decision-Making; Social and economic impacts of climate change on public health; housing as a social determinant of health; climate disaster response policy

$63,190

Resilient Communities

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Woodhall-Melnik, Julia

Keywords: resilient communities; housing affordability; neighbourhood development; social capital; cultural capital; community-based research

$215,000

Resilient Communities

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Woodhall-Melnik, Julia

Keywords: resilient communities; housing affordability; neighbourhood development; social capital; cultural capital; community-based research

$240,000

The Maritime Community Health and Housing Initiative: Investigating the Impact of Public Housing Interventions on Mental Health and Healthcare Use in Low-Income Households in New Brunswick

Nominated PICIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Woodhall-Melnik, Julia R

Keywords: Administrative Data Linking; Healthcare Use; Housing; Housing Instability; Low-Income; Mental Health; Poverty; Prospective Study; Social/Public Housing

$466,650

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

Frequent collaborators

Li Ka Shing Knowledge
School of Nursing
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
Epidemiology Division
Nursing
Community Health and Epidemiology
Psychology
Other

1 shared papers, latest 2025

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Administrative Data Linking Dear Professor Woodhall-Melnik, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "The impact of place on health: Neighbourhood & residential satisfaction as a contributor to physical and mental health in applicants for publicly subsidized housing" (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Advancing Socio-Economic Research for Evidence-Informed Public Health Decision-Making" (2023), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]