Alayne Mary Adams
Dr. Alayne M. Adams is an Associate Professor (tenured) and Global Health Director in the Department of Family Medicine. She holds adjunct professor and senior scientist positions at the BRAC School of Public Health and icddr,b, an international research population health institute, both in Bangladesh. In addition, she holds adjunct faculty positions in the Department of Public and Global Health and the Department of Ethics, Equity and Policy located in 九色视频鈥檚 School of Population and Global Health. She founded and co-leads the Social Prescription Collaborative at 九色视频, and Listen-Up, an inter-disciplinary initiative that centers the voice of youth in promoting mental health and well-being.
Training: A Commonwealth Scholar, Dr. Adams completed her MSc in Human Nutrition and PhD in Public Health at the London School of Tropical Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, followed by post-doctoral studies at Harvard University as a McArthur fellow.
Research Interests: An applied social scientist, Dr. Adams鈥� research focuses on innovative strategies to address the social and structural determinants of health equity and access to primary healthcare in both local and global contexts. She has led numerous interdisciplinary projects spanning the fields of social science, health systems, knowledge translation, and implementation science, utilizing qualitative, mixed, participatory and geospatial methodologies. Dr. Adams has a particular interest in community-engaged innovations in service delivery and holistic primary care models that integrate health and social services with an emphasis on co-design and equity-deserving populations.
Current projects: Social prescribing in primary care; gender-sensitive social prescription for women with heart failure,; intergenerational approaches to addressing youth mental health and climate change; the design of culturally tailored non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention and management programs; migrant health and social care; healthcare equity in racialized and culturally diverse populations; and integrated nutrition and gender-transformative rural health programs. These projects span community and healthcare settings in Montreal and international collaborations in Kenya, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Australia, Ghana, and Nigeria.
Educational Development: A passionate educator, Dr. Adams brings decades of experience in developing innovative academic programs in population and global health. Her accomplishments include co-founding the flagship Master of Public Health program at the BRAC School of Public Health in Bangladesh and its Centre for Urban Equity and Health, designing the MSc Concentration in Global Health in Family Medicine, and leading the development of the undergraduate Faculty Program in Population and Global Health, which she now co-directs.
Keywords: Social and structural determinants of health, health equity, adolescent mental health and nutrition, urban health & food systems, informal health & social care, urban private sector in LMICs, NCD prevention, social prescription, community mobilization, knowledge mobilization, implementation research, qualitative, mixed methods and participatory research.
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