Hi Friend:
Welcome to my emeritus academic website.
An epidemiologist and social worker, I have done research on population health inequities over the past 35 years. The research questions that I have been most interested in involve the associations of key social resources such as health care and education with the health of diverse North American populations. My aim was to develop better understandings about the relative disadvantages experienced by diverse groups of people oppressed in various ways: the uninsured and underinsured, people living in poverty, people of color and other minoritized peoples. My research team and I accomplished a series of federally funded (NIH & CIHR) health systems comparisons between Canada and the United States: "Breast and colon cancer care in Canada and the US, 1985 to 2015: Advancing knowledge to maximize protections and minimize harms in low-income neighborhoods and underserved communities."
I have two scholarly goals for the next 25 years, God willing. First, moving from primary to synthetic comparisons of additionally informing high-income nations I hope to create "hardcover" resources for the next generation of researchers, decision makers and publics. These will be two research syntheses: "The skewed curve: Social solutions to America's social problems" and "Health care of people with low incomes in high-income nations: Best policies from around the world." Second, I hope to responsibly pass the scholarly baton off to the next generation of students, graduate and undergraduate, and junior investigators, academy and community-based.
Though now retired from routine academic work, I remain very interested in supporting student research. My collegial network of researchers and knowledge users includes social and biomedical scientists as well as practicing social workers, physicians and allied health professionals and legislative decision makers. So we can still support a number of professional, social or health scientific programs of study. In fact, our student protégés have been highly successful in winning scholarships in support for their research through CIHR, SSHRC, OGS and other student award programs.
Perhaps we will work, study, teach and learn together one day.
Semper Fi,
Kevin Gorey (he/him)
Email: gorey@uwindsor.ca Twitter: @DocGorey
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