Bio
Dr. Flora Matheson is the Unity Health Toronto Chair in Homelessness, Housing, and Health. She is a Sociologist leading the Justice & Equity Lab located at MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital and is an Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto.
Her research program focuses on gender inequities and intersecting social determinants of health affecting criminal-legal-involved individuals. Her most recent research examines community supervision and re-entry programs for those with brain injury. With a network of partners, she provides education on brain injury to criminal-legal professionals. Together they advocate for more interventions that are brain injury focused in the criminal-legal system. They are implementing a program in Ontario to help criminal-legal-involved individuals with brain injury navigate health, legal, and social services in the community.
She is co-Chair of Unity Health Toronto’s Patient and Community Engagement in Research Committee. The strategic goal of this initiative is to establish a robust model of patient and community engagement in Research that is equitable, diverse and inclusive. Her own research is embedded in the community and engages people with lived expertise, as well as the service providers who support underserved communities.
Research Appointment: Scientist
Other Appointments & Affiliations
- Endowed Chair: Homelessness, Housing and Health
- Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
- Honourary Appointment, Adjunct Research Professor, School of Industrial Design, Carleton University
- Associate Professor, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
- Scientist, Mental Health and Addictions Program, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
- Associate Professor, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto
- Co-Chair: Patient and Community Engagement in Research Committee
- Board Member: Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association
