The SPARK study is a CIHR-funded national study that was birthed out of the lack of data on social determinants of health in primary care settings in Canada. Healthcar...
About
Joseph is a Research Coordinator for the SPARK Implementation and Scale-up Studies and the Project Dignify Evaluation study. Prior to joining Upstream Lab, Joseph worked as a Mental Health Housing Clinician with Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCH). He has coordinated various research projects including helping develop the VCH region’s first recovery college in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association North and West Vancouver branch.
Joseph holds an MSc degree from The University of British Columbia with a focus on health and sport psychology. For his master’s thesis, Joseph interviewed people who had experienced homelessness about their experiences playing in the Vancouver Street Soccer League and how it influenced their mental health and social identity. His research interests span mental health and well-being in community and clinical settings, community sport and physical activity, addressing social determinants of health, and community-based qualitative methods.
Projects
Project Dignify: Supporting seniors living with mental illness who experience homelessness
In Progress
Our study will evaluate Project Dignify, a new case management program at St. Michael’s Hospital that aims to provide older adults experiencing homelessness and mental...
The Quadruple Aim serves as a guide on how to optimize healthcare system performance. While it consists of goals for healthcare systems, public health shares the goal ...