Acting Chair
National Children’s Study Federal Advisory Committee Member
Dr. O’Campo is Director of the Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St. Michael’s Hospital and Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. As a social epidemiologist, she has been conducting research on the social determinants of health and well-being among women and children for over 20 years. She has focused on methods development as part of her research, including application of multilevel modeling to understand residential and workplace contexts on health; the application of concept mapping to increase community input and perspectives into research; and more recently, realist systematic review to understand how complex interventions bring about change and improvements in health. She has conducted a number of survey-based cross sectional and longitudinal studies in the areas of the social determinants of adult mental health, intimate partner violence and children’s well-being, as well as clinic and community based evaluations of programs concerning smoking cessation, prevention of perinatal transmission of HIV, prevention of infant mortality, and more recently, a large intervention for homeless individuals with severe mental illness. She has been widely recognized for her contributions to the well-being of women and children through the receipt of early and mid-career awards given by national U.S. organizations, such as the American Public Health Association, the National Academy of Sciences, and the U.S. Coalition for Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology.