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Kathy Georgiades

Professor
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Kathy Georgiades holds the David R. (Dan) Offord Chair in Child Studies and is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University and the Offord Centre for Child Studies. Her program of research seeks to improve child and vouth mental health and reduce inequities in access to effective mental health care. To achieve these goals, she works on designing, implementing, analyzing and disseminating evidence from epidemiologic studies in the general population. These studies are designed to inform decisions related to the allocation and targeting of resources by addressing fundamental questions related to population prevalence, incidence and determinants of child and youth mental disorders and access to care; and when repeated, permit evaluation of child and youth mental health policies and practices. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kathy established a national team of academic researchers and federal partners to design and implement a longitudinal follow-up of the 2019 Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth. Supported by a project grant from CIHR, a primary objective was to examine longitudinal, changes in child and youth health throughout the pandemic and identify population sub-groups and communities disproportionately affected.

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