Centre for Research on Inner City Health (CRICH)
Centre for Research on Inner City Health (CRICH), Keenan Research Centre, St. Michael’s Hospital (affiliated with the University of Toronto)
The research agenda is intervention-oriented, patient and population-focused and policy-sensitive.The overlapping population foci include: homeless and under-housed groups, urban aboriginals, women and children at risk, immigrants and refugees, people living with HIV/AIDS and people living with severe and persistent mental illness.
Our strategic objectives:
--To advance the conceptualization of inner city health
--To create knowledge about health issues affecting inner city populations
--To work with our community partners through such avenues as community-based participatory research
--To educate researchers in the field of inner city health and to develop research capacity through graduate training
--To support the translation of new knowledge about urban health into appropriate practices and policies
Urban health, homelessness, mental health
Workshops, discussions
Fields of research in publications do not seem to be housing-related: violence, HIV, mental health, diseases.
Among 16 researchers, three conduct housing-related research.
There is some work by James R. Dunn on neighborhoods, including two housing-related publications—“Does Affordable Housing Make us Healthier?” and “Effects of Re-Housing into Social Housing on Adult and Child Mental Health in the GTA West". Dunn is also co-investigator with David Hulchanski in a 5 year CURA project entitled, “Community gentrification and building inclusive communities from within: A case study of Toronto’s west-central neighborhoods”.
Stephen W. Hwang and Rosane Nisenbaum have research interests in housing and homelessness, but none of their publications are listed on the website.
Contact information
70 Richmond Street East
Toronto, Ontario M5C 1N8
70 Richmond Street East
Toronto, Ontario M5C 1N8
