Faculty Member
Kate Mulligan
- Email Address(es)
- kate.mulligan(at)utoronto.ca
- Website(s)
- LinkedIn, Twitter, Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing
- Division(s)/Institute(s)
- Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
- Position
- Assistant Professor
- SGS Status
- Associate Member
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
- Consultant, Canadian Red Cross (2021-present)
- Consultant, National Collaborating Centre for the Determinants of Health (2021-present)
- Consultant, Office of the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada (2021)
- Consultant, Pan American Health Organization (2021)
- Faculty Affiliate, School of Cities, University of Toronto (2018-present)
- Mentor, Public Health Policy, University of Toronto (2013-present)
- Board Member, Toronto Board of Health (2019-present); Association of Local Public Health Agencies (2019-2021); 8-80 Cities (2020-present)
Primary Teaching Responsibilities
- Instructor, Advocacy & Government Relations. DLSPH Certificate in Health Impact (May 2021)
- Instructor, “Government Relations, Advocacy and Communications” DrPH (Fall 2022)
- Instructor, CHL5809H Ecological Public Health
- Mentor, Collaborative Program in Public Health Policy
- Research and practicum supervision
Representative Publications
Morse, DF; Sandhu, S; Mulligan, K; Tierney, S; Polley, P; Chivas, B; Slade, S; Dias, S; Mahtani, K; Wells, L; Wang, H; Zhao, B; de Figueiredo, C; Meijs, JJ; Nam, HK; Lee, KH; Wallace, C; Elliott, M; Mendive, JM; Robinson, D; Palo, M; Herrman, W; Nielsen, RØ; Husk, K. (2022). Global Developments in Social Prescribing. BMJ Global Health 2022;7:e008524.
Mulligan K. 2022. Strengthening community connections: the future of public health is at the neighbourhood scale. Report to the Office of the Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO) at the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Using self-determination theory to understand the social prescribing process: a qualitative study.
Mulligan, K., Bhatti, S., Rayner, J., & Hsiung, S. 2019. Social Prescribing: Creating Pathways Towards Better Health and Wellness. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16249
Rayner, J; Muldoon, L; Bayoumi, I; McMurchy, D; Mulligan, K; Tharao, W 2018. Delivering Primary Health Care as Envisioned – A Model of Health and Wellbeing Guiding Community-Governed Primary Care Organizations. Journal of Integrated Care. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICA-02-2018-0014