Dr. Flora I. Matheson, Ph.D. is a medical sociologist and mental health and addictions specialist. She is particularly interested in how gender inequities and other social determinants of health affect people experiencing problem gambling and substance use, mental illness, poverty, homelessness and imprisonment. She has particular expertise in integrated knowledge translation approaches with community-based partners and with people with lived experience of addictions, mental health concerns and homelessness. She is a Scientist at the Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital; Scientist in the Mental Health and Addictions Program at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences; and, Associate Professor with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto.
Arthur is a postdoctoral fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto. He holds a PhD in Sociology from McMaster University.
As a sociologist who studies diverse social worlds—drug subcultures, seminaries, barbershops, refugee reception contexts, service agencies, addiction and reintegration programs—the moral order of everyday life has been a central theme that informs and integrates his research.
Arthur works with Dr. Matheson at MAP, where they are pursuing two streams of research: (1) problem gambling, poverty, and homelessness and (2) incarceration, traumatic brain injury, and comorbidities. This work is focused on developing evidence-based, stakeholder-informed mobile applications as an eHealth approach to reaching marginalized populations, providing them with tools for self-managing gambling, in the case of the former stream, and breaking the cycle of incarceration and enhancing the experience of reintegration, in the case of the latter stream. These projects represent one way Arthur has been extending beyond the academy to critically engage social issues in a public forum.
Arthur’s research has been published in multiple venues–such as Social Forces, Sociological Theory, Canadian Ethnic Studies, and Refuge—and received recognition from the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.
Dr. Lucas Seuren is a postdoctoral fellow in the Justice and Equity Lab at St. Michael’s Hospital. He is also a health services researcher at the University of Oxford. His research is focused on the implementation of digital health, such as smartphone applications and telehealth. He combines linguistics with sociology to understand the perspectives and experiences of potential service users and providers, and the barriers and facilitators to integrating technology in the delivery of health and social care.
Madison is a Research Coordinator in the Justice and Equity Research Lab. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Queen’s University and a Master’s of Public Health from Lund University.
Madison is interested in the field of addiction, specifically problem gambling. As a research coordinator, she is currently managing various projects, including a self-management app for people experiencing problem gambling with a focus on those experiencing homelessness, and supporting individuals with traumatic brain injury in the Ontario criminal justice system.
During her last semester at Lund University, she conducted a thesis project on the association between problem gambling and comorbid physical conditions, mental health problems, problematic substance use, and behavioural addictions with the goal of finding new opportunities for pathways to treatment. Prior to her role at St. Michael’s Hospital, Madison was a Research Assistant at the McGill Group for Suicide Studies, where she assisted with a scoping review investigating a wide variety of risk factors for suicide.
Sherry Hao is a Research Coordinator at the Justice and Equity Lab. She obtained a Master of Public Health Degree in Social and Behavioural Health with a Collaborative Specialization in Women’s Health from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Prior to her work at MAP, she participated in multiple community-based research projects related to homelessness and interpersonal violence. She has also worked as a youth advocate for youth experiencing homelessness in Sacramento, California. At MAP, she provides research support for a range of projects addressing health and social disparities. Currently, she is working on research related to COVID-19 disruptions in the mental health and addictions service sector and health disparities among criminal justice-involved individuals.
Shahroze is a Research Assistant II at the Justice and Equity Lab and holds a Honors Bachelor of Science degree in Human Biology and Psychology from the University of Toronto. He is interested in the intersection of biology, psychology and sociology, especially how these disciplines can be integrated to create effective solutions for many of the problems of today. At the lab, Shahroze provides assistance across projects throughout the lab. Currently he is working on a projects that aim to create eHealth tools for different issues, such as problem gambling and traumatic brain injury in the justice system.
Monique is the Administrative Assistant to Scientists Dr. Matheson and Dr. O’Campo in the Justice and Equity Research Program at the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions. She provides assistance with coordination of various activities, tracking requirements and scheduling meetings for both teams of the principal investigators. She also provides assistance on a number of funded projects and grant applications.
Prior to her position at LKSI she served as Senior Legal Assistant to the head of the Legal Department for a major securities company in Toronto and completed her education at Seneca College as a Court and Tribunal Agent.
