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Jordan Edwards

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Assistant Professor (Part-Time)PediatricsMcMaster University

Jordan Edwards

Assistant Professor (Part-Time)

Pediatrics

Faculty of Health Sciences

McMaster University

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

In this role since 2025

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Supervision signals

Adjunct, part-time and visiting faculty usually co-supervise alongside a core faculty member.
No graduate courses on record.
39 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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822

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Contact

edwarj25@mcmaster.ca

Research

Dr. Edwards is an Epidemiologist, Health Services Researcher, Assistant Professor (Part-time) in Pediatrics, and is the Research and Evaluation Lead for the Extensive Needs Program at Hamilton Health Sciences (Canada). Dr. Edwards’s research is focused on producing evidence to inform practice and policy aimed at reducing health and social disparities among children, youth, and families in Canada. His research applies innovative design and methodology to study the epidemiology, implementation, and evaluation of innovative models of care that support families with children and youth with extensive mental and neurodevelopmental health needs. His work is interdisciplinary, rooted in social, pediatric, and psychiatric epidemiology, and incorporates diverse quantitative and mixed methodologies. Dr. Edwards’s work strives to prioritize underserved and diverse populations, employ inclusive, representative, and rigorous methodology, and actively engage in knowledge translation aimed at policy makers to improve equitable delivery of care.

Research areas, by share of publications

Mental Health Treatment and AccessPsychology
Schizophrenia research and treatmentMedicine
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology
Migration, Health and TraumaPsychology
Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationMedicine

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51 publications.

Initial diagnosis patterns of coexisting mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions in autistic children and youth: Evidence from a nationally representative sample in Canada

Chen Y, Lai M, Georgiades S, Duku E, Edwards J, Nolan E, Szatmari P, Miller R, Cost K, Georgiades K

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry20262 citations

DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.70039

“I felt like that was a safe place to go”: a qualitative study of help-seeking experiences for early psychosis in primary care

Rodrigues R, Madakadze C, Edwards J, Booth R, Archie S, Palaniyappan L, Chan S, Nagy K, Anderson KK, co-investigators OBOTP

Journal of Mental Health20262 citations

DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2025.2595617

Longitudinal Trajectories of Child and Youth Mental Health Symptoms Across Distinct Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A population-based study in Ontario, Canada

Georgiades K, Chen Y, Johnson D, Miller R, Wang L, Sim A, Nolan E, Dryburgh N, Edwards J, O’byrne S

20261 citations

DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.02.26350051

Development and implementation of measurement-based care for children and youth with complex mental and neurodevelopmental needs: early experiences from Ontario’s Extensive Needs Service

Rombos V, Salami ZO, Ferguson G, Baysarowich R, Decker K, Denomey N, Drmic I, Edwards J, Hayawi L, Jeyabalan T

Frontiers in Psychiatry20261 citations

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1704325

‘I Call Them Our Village’: Experiences Of Caregivers in Ontario's Extensive Needs Service

Rombos V, Salami ZO, Denomey N, Ferguson G, Baysarowich R, Newhook D, Sutherland S, Drmic I, Edwards J, Sharma S

Child: Care, Health and Development2026

DOI: 10.1111/cch.70347

Interpersonal Predictors of Youth Internalizing Symptom Trajectories During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Dryburgh NSJ, Miller R, Duku E, Cost KT, Chen Y, Edwards J, Nolan E, Georgiades K

Journal of Adolescence2026

DOI: 10.1002/jad.70245

Sex-specific drivers of non-affective psychotic disorders within migrant groups: A 25-year retrospective cohort study of 2 million migrants

Khan JA, Edwards J, Le B, Lizotte D, Anderson KK

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology2026

DOI: 10.1007/s00127-026-03152-x

Family dynamics and self-harm and suicidality in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Hammond NG, Semchishen SN, Geoffroy M-C, Sikora L, Wafy G, Hsueh L, Khan H, Edwards J, Gravel C, Ferro MA

The Lancet Psychiatry202518 citations

DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00217-2

Child abuse prevalence estimates in Canada; comparisons of nationally representative data from 2012 to 2022: a population-based study

Afifi TO, McCarthy J-A, Osorio A, MacGowan L, Taillieu TL, Stewart-Tufescu A, Sareen J, MacMillan HL, Tonmyr L, Colman I

The Lancet Regional Health. Americas202513 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.lana.2025.101072

Parental employment quality during childhood and mental health in adolescence: a 10-year longitudinal study

Shahidi FV, Wang L, Comeau J, Edwards J, Wahi G, Siddiqi A, Georgiades K, Fuller AE

Social Science and Medicine20256 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118482

Roles and appointments

Early Career Scientist, Hamilton Health Sciences
Core Member, Offord Centre for Child Studies
Adjunct Scientist, ICES McMaster