Dr.

John Cairney

Faculty

Associate Professor

Health Systems

CAMH – Russell Street Site

33 Russell Street

T320

Toronto, ON

M5S 2S1

416-535-8501

6319

john_cairney@camh.net

416-979-4703

John Cairney has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Western Ontario. He has completed post-doctoral training in psychiatric epidemiology at the Canadian Centre for Studies of Children at Risk (now Offord Centre for Child Studies), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neuroscience, McMaster University with Dr. Dan Offord and Dr. Michael Boyle. His research interests are, broadly, in the areas of psychiatric sociology, population health and epidemiology. In particular, his research has explored the social and economic determinants of psychological well-being including the influence of socioeconomic status on self-reported health among older adults, the relationship between age and depression, and the effect of age on gender differences in depression. His doctoral dissertation (2002) was an examination of the combined impact of age and socioeconomic status on stress, psychosocial resources and psychological distress.

More recently, his work has focused on issues related to mental health care use in vulnerable and/or marginalized populations. Dr. Cairney has extensive experience analyzing large, population-based health surveys including the 1994-95 National Population Health Survey, 1991 General Social Survey, the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, and the 1990 Ontario Mental Health Supplement. He has published 29 articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented at more than 50 national and international scientific conferences. He also holds several peer-reviewed grants on topics related to single parenthood and mental health care use, Developmental Coordination Disorder in Children, and Psychiatric Disorders in Older Adults from CIHR
and SSHRC.