Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Faculty Member

Kate Mulligan

Research Interests

I am interested in the role of community-scale leadership and intervention in the production of health and wellbeing. I lead high-impact advocacy and research for healthier, more equitable and more sustainable policy and practice.

I am also the Senior Director of the new Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing.

My interests include:

• Advocacy, media, community and government relations
• Health equity, healthy public policy and community wellbeing
• Community leadership, resilience and self-determination
• Community and public governance
• Social prescribing & determinants of health
• Political ecology & health geography

Education & Training History

• PhD, Geography, McMaster University (2013)
• M.A., Adult Education and Community Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto (2003)
• B Arts Sc., Arts & Science Programme, McMaster University (2001)

Other Affiliations

• Faculty Advisory Council, School of Cities, University of Toronto
• Special Graduate Faculty, School of Environmental Design & Rural Development, University of Guelph
• Mentor, Collaborative Program in Public Health Policy, University of Toronto
• Board Member, Toronto Board of Health
• Board Member, 8-80 Cities

Consultancies

• Canadian Red Cross
• National Collaborating Centre for the Determinants of Health
• Office of the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada
• Pan American Health Organization

Primary Teaching Responsibilities

• CHL5135H Ecological Public Health
• CHL5110H Theory and Practice of Program Evaluation
• Advocacy & Government Relations, DLSPH Certificate in Health Impact
• Government Relations, Advocacy and Communications, DrPH
• Mentor, Collaborative Program in Public Health Policy
• Research and practicum supervision

Representative Publications