Anita Kothari
BSc, MHSc (Toronto); PhD (McMaster)
Associate Professor - School of Health Studies
Core Faculty Member - Joint Program in Health Information Science
Office: Room 222 - Arthur and Sonia Labatt Health Sciences Building
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 81302
Lab: HSB 403; ext. 88109
Research Interests
- Knowledge translation and exchange
- Focuses on community-based organizations (public health units, homecare, early childhood development centres) as unique settings
- Evidence-informed decision making by practitioners, managers and policy makers - creating and testing strategies like communities of practice, networks, knowledge management tools; investigating the role of tacit and explicit knowledge
- Public health services
- Renewal of public health - study of policy interventions in public health, novel methods for public health research (social network analysis, concept mapping, intersectional analysis), complex adaptive systems theoretical lens
- Part of first research team in Canada funded by CIHR to develop the field of public health services research (includes government decision makers from two provinces)
Research Affiliations
- Research Associate - National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools in Public Health
- Research Affiliate - Population Health Improvement Research Network
- CIHR New Investigator Award (2010-2016)
Teaching Areas
- Knowledge translation
- Health Promotion
- Methods: Multilevel Modelling, Social Network Analysis
Graduate Student Supervision
- Master's
- PhD
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