Dr.

Samuel Noh

Faculty

Ph.D.

Full Professor

Equity, Gender and Population

Co-Director of Equity, Gender and Population Division
Head of Culture, Community and Health Studies Program

CAMH – Spadina Avenue Site

33 Russell Street

T-305 Tower Building

Toronto, ON

M5S 2S1

416-535-8501

4688

samuel_noh@camh.net

David Crombie Professor of Cultural Pluralin in Health
Co-Director of Equity, Gender and Population Division
Department of Psychiatry
Professor, Institute of Medical Science
University of Toronto
Senior Scientist, Social and Epidemiological research
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Dr. Noh is a social and cultural epidemiologist, and his research focuses on the critical issues of understanding health disparities by studying the ways social status and context exert effects as major determinants of health and health disparities. Using the stress and life course perspectives, his research has illustrated that the combination of personal resources and social capital account for a large proportion of the class-distress association. While his early research produced findings virtually identical to classic studies of social distributions and social consequences of mental disorders since 1990, Dr. Noh has been investigating diverse issues concerning the social determinants of health and health disparity in immigrant and racial and ethnic minority groups. Recent publications report the first comprehensive analysis of racial/ethnic distribution of depression in Canadian population, psychosocial processes of discrimination and mental health, confluence of race, family and neighbourhood ecology on adolescent depression, and mental health service use among immigrants in Toronto. Dr. Noh’s current research projects investigate the dynamics and processes that explain how ascribed social status (e.g., sex, race, and ethnicity) and achieved social status (e.g., education, occupation, and poverty), ecological context (e.g., community social pathology or poverty, public attitudes, and health policy), and public and personal stigma of mental illness contribute to the onset of mental disorders and help seeking behaviours and health care service use among diverse immigrant and ethnic groups. His projects and collaborations include studies of mental and addiction disorder stigma among high school students, ethnic identity and self-concept among youth, use of alternative medicine and natural health products among patients of psychosis, cultural competence in mental health care professionals, perceived discrimination and risk behaviour and hep-seeking behaviour in immigrants, somatization in Asians and Asian Canadians, and community-based participatory research in mental health promotion and HIV prevention in immigrant ethnic communities.

Sample Publications:

Noh, Samuel, Ann Kim, Marianne Noh. (In Press). Korean Immigrants in Canada: Perspectives of Migration, Settlement and Family. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press.

Srirangsan, Apisamai, Kednapa Thavorn, and Samuel Noh. (In Press). “Mental Health Needs in the Thai Immigrants in Toronto, Canada.” International Journal of Culture and Mental Health.

Wu, Zheng, Christoph M. Schimmele, Margaret J. Penning, Chi Zheng, and Samuel Noh (In Press). “The effect of marital status on duration of treatment for mental illness.” Canadian Studies in Population.

Flora, Nina, Sandy Simpson, Howard Barbaree, Samuel Noh, and Kwame McKenzie. (In Press). Pathways to Law and Mental Health Care.” Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.

Noh, Samuel, Aya Kimura Ida, R. Frank Falk, Nancy B. Miller, and Miea Moon (In Press). “Ethnic Identity and Self-concept among Korean Canadian Youth.” In Samuel Noh, Ann Kim & Marianne Noh (Eds.) Korean Immigrants in Canada: Perspectives of Migration, Settlement, and Family, Toronto: University of Toronto press.

Noh, Samuel and Miea Moon (In Press). “Acculturative Stress among Korean Immigrants,” in Korean Immigrants in Canada: Perspectives of Migration, Settlement, and Family, In Samuel Noh, Ann Kim & Marianne Noh (Eds.) Korean Immigrants in Canada: Perspectives of Migration, Settlement, and Family, Toronto: University of Toronto press.

Hamilton, Hayley, Robert Mann, and Samuel Noh. (2011). Adolescent Immigrant Generation and Stigmatizing Attitudes Toward Drug Addiction. Addiction Research & Theory, 19:344-351.

Noh, Marianne, Sergio Rueda, T Bekele, Haile Fenta, S Gardner, Hayley Hamilton, TA Hart, Alan Li, Samuel Noh, Sean B Rourke, and the OCS Cohort Study Team (2011). “Stress and Depressive Symptoms among Immigrant Adults Living with HIV.” Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Available on line

Fenta, Haile, Ilene Hyman, Sean Rourke, Miea Moon, and Samuel Noh. (2010). Somatization among Ethiopian Immigrants and Refugees in Toronto. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, 3:1-15.

Wickrama, KAS, Samuel Noh. (2009). The Long Arm of Community: The Influence of Childhood Community contexts Across the Early Life Course. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39:894-910.

Wickrama, K. A. S., Samuel Noh, and Glen Elder (2009) “An Investigation of Family SES-Based Inequalities in Depressive Symptoms from Early Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood.” Advances in Life Course Research, 14:147-161.

Noh, Samuel, Violet Kaspar and K.A.S. Wickrama. (2007). Overt and Subtle Racial Discrimination and Mental Health: Preliminary Findings for Asian Immigrants. American Journal of Public Health, 97:1269-1274.

Noh, Samuel and Violet Kaspar. (2003). Perceived Discrimination: Moderating Effects of Coping, Acculturation, and Ethnic Support. American Journal of Public Health, 93:232-238.

Noh, Samuel, Morton Beiser, Violet Kaspar, Feng Hou and Anneke Rummens (1999). Perceived Racial Discrimination, Coping, and Depression Among Asian Refugees in Canada. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 40, 193-207.

Editorial Board
Asian Canadian Studies Book Series, University of Toronto Press
International Journal of Culture and Mental Health
Journal of Society and Mental Health
Psychiatric Investigation
Journal of Health and Social Behavior