Lucie Richard

Lucie Richard is a health geographer and health services researcher currently serving as an Adjunct Scientist at MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, part of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at Unity Health Toronto. Her research is dedicated to identifying and addressing health and healthcare disparities driven by social determinants of health, with a particular focus on homelessness.

 Ms. Richard is an advocate for using secondary data sources wherever appropriate to minimize burden on research participants. She led the creation and validation of a method to identify homelessness within Canadian health administrative databases, which is now used in numerous works across Canada to describe and assess the health and healthcare patterns of patients experiencing homelessness. Ms. Richard specializes in employing this method to conduct research and evaluation work in Toronto and Ontario, both alone or in combination with primary research cohorts. She also advises on novel adaptations to the use of this methodology.