Melanie Barwick

Faculty Member

Accepting Students

Melanie Barwick, Ph.D., C.Psych, is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Implementation Science and Practice and Senior Scientist in the Child Health Evaluative Sciences Program of the SickKids’ Research Institute and the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health. She also leads professional training and resource development in Dissemination and Implementation Research and Practice within the Knowledge Translation Program of the SickKids’ Learning Institute. 

At the University of Toronto, she is a Professor-Affiliated Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, and Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, and the Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation). 

Her community work includes past-Chair of the Governing Board for Children’s Mental Health Ontario, and membership on the Editorial Board for the SIRC journal Implementation Research and Practice.

An adapted early warning signs and symptoms (EWSS) intervention to improve early recognition and referral of childhood cancers in Kenya and Cameroon

An adapted early warning signs and symptoms (EWSS) intervention to improve early recognition and referral of childhood cancers in Kenya and Cameroon: An Effectiveness Implementation Study. 5 years. Cancer accounts for a growing proportion of global childhood mortality. There are […]

Alyssa Kelly

PhD Graduate Student

Thesis: Exploring how health equity is conceptualized, operationalized, implemented, and evaluated in Ontario hospitals

Supervisors: Melanie Barwick

Luma Samawi

PhD Graduate Student

Thesis: Improving implementation outcomes of the World Health Organization mental health Gap Action Program (WHO mhGAP) in Jordanian Primary Healthcare

Supervisors: Melanie Barwick