Faculty profile
James Dunn
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Research
Latest papers
Direct and indirect effects of perceived social support on health-related quality of life in persons living with HIV/AIDS
AIDS Care · 2013
Housing Characteristics and their Influence on Health-Related Quality of Life in Persons Living with HIV in Ontario, Canada: Results from the Positive Spaces, Healthy Places Study
AIDS and Behavior · 2012
Standardized observation of neighbourhood disorder: does it work in Canada?
International Journal of Health Geographics · 2010 · senior author
Latest funding
- $12,500
CIHR-IPPH Trailblazer Award 2025 - Senior Career
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
- $25,000
Implementation of Municipal Housing Interventions to improve Healthy Aging and Quality of Life in Canadian Cities
CIHR · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $75,000
A retrospective cohort using multilevel modelling of administrative data to predict and prevent movement of low-income older adults from social housing into Long Term Care facilities: Development of the Keeping Low-income Older adults in Social housing hEalthy at home ('KLOSE') Tool
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
4 publications.
Direct and indirect effects of perceived social support on health-related quality of life in persons living with HIV/AIDS
Bekele T, Rourke SB, Tucker R, Greene S, Sobota M, Koornstra J, Monette L, Rueda S, Bacon J, Watson J
Housing Characteristics and their Influence on Health-Related Quality of Life in Persons Living with HIV in Ontario, Canada: Results from the Positive Spaces, Healthy Places Study
Rourke SB, Bekele T, Tucker R, Greene S, Sobota M, Koornstra J, Monette L, Bacon J, Bhuiyan S, Rueda S
Standardized observation of neighbourhood disorder: does it work in Canada?
Parsons JA, Singh G, Scott AN, Nisenbaum R, Balasubramaniam P, Jabbar A, Zaidi Q, Sheppard A, Ramsay J, O'Campo P
Unmet healthcare need, gender, and health inequalities in Canada
Bryant T, Leaver C, Dunn J
CIHR-IPPH Trailblazer Award 2025 - Senior Career
Principal investigators: Dunn, James R
Keywords: Aging; Child Development; Housing; Knowledge Mobilization; Social Epidemiology; Urban Socio-Economic Inequalities
Implementation of Municipal Housing Interventions to improve Healthy Aging and Quality of Life in Canadian Cities
Principal investigators: Agarwal, Gina (Ragini); Poll, Amy; Dunn, James R; Wyndham-West, Catherine M
Keywords: Chronic Diseases; Evidence-Based Interventions; Health Services; Healthy Aging; Homelessness; Housing; Implementation Science; Mental Health; Older Adults; Quality Of Life
A retrospective cohort using multilevel modelling of administrative data to predict and prevent movement of low-income older adults from social housing into Long Term Care facilities: Development of the Keeping Low-income Older adults in Social housing hEalthy at home ('KLOSE') Tool
Principal investigators: Agarwal, Gina (Ragini)
Keywords: Access To Healthcare; Administrative Data; Chronic Disease Profile; Health Geography; Health Inequities; Low Income; Older Adults; Prevent Transition To Long Term Care (Ltc); Social Housing; Vulnerable Population
Housing needs, neighborhood quality and mental health
Principal investigators: Riva, Mylene; Kaiser, David
Keywords: Housing; Mental Health; Neighborhood
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
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
Interventions research in homelessness, housing, and health
Principal investigators: Hwang, Stephen W
Keywords: Health Care Delivery Systems; Health Inequities; Health Policy; Homelessness; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Interventions Research; Population Health; Social Determinants Of Health
Housing and Indigenous peoples' health: A knowledge synthesis of research and housing initiatives in support of practice, policy, and advocacy.
Principal investigators: Riva, Mylene; Bruneau, Suzanne; Fletcher, Christopher
Keywords: Housing Conditions; Housing Interventions; Indigenous Peoples' Health; Systematic Literature Review
CANadian Urban Environmental (CANUE) Health Research Consortium
Principal investigators: Brook, Jeffrey R; Stieb, David M; Awadalla, Philip; Brauer, Michael; Hu, Howard; McGrail, Kimberlyn M; Subbarao, Padmaja
Keywords: Air Quality; Climate Change; Cohorts; Environmental Exposure; Greenness; Noise; Urban Form; Walkability
Evaluating Hamilton's "Neighbourhood Action Strategy": A community-based approach to reducing neighbourhood-level health inequalities
Principal investigators: Wakefield, Sarah E
Keywords: Health Equity; Intervention Research; Neighbourhood Effects; Population Health; Process Evaluation
Better Access and Care for Complex Needs (BeACCON)
Principal investigators: Anderson, Geoffrey M; Kennedy, Nancy; Bhattacharyya, Onil
Keywords: Community-Based Primary Health Care; Cost-Effective; Cross-Jurisdictional Comparisions; Engagement Of Sectors Within And Outside Of Health; Health System Transformation; Individuals With Complex Needs; Innovations; Integrated Health Care; Patient/Family Co-Design; Program Evaluation
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
- Centre for Research on Inner City Health
- Health, Aging & Society
- Social Work
- Medicine
- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
- Family Medicine
- Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Jim Dunn
Health, Aging & Society
4 shared papers, latest 2013
Saara Greene
Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2013
Sergio Rueda
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2013
Saara Greene
Social Work
2 shared papers, latest 2013
Chad Leaver
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
1 shared papers, latest 2009
Shafi Bhuiyan
Clinical Public Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2012
Rosane Nisenbaum
Biostatistics Division
1 shared papers, latest 2010
Dale Guenter
Family Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Jason Ramsay
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
1 shared papers, latest 2010
Patricia O’Campo
Epidemiology Division
1 shared papers, latest 2010
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