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Media coverage about the Toronto Diabetes Atlas


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Podcasts of "Sick People or Sick Societies"

Podcasts of this two-part radio documentary on the social determinants of health, featuring CRICH scientist Rick Glazier, are available to download from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.

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Centre for Research on Inner City Health

Inner City Homelessness imageThe Centre for Research on Inner City Health (CRICH) is Canada's first and only transdisciplinary and hospital-based research centre dedicated to reducing health disparities and improving the health of socially and economically disadvantaged urban populations.

Our research agenda is intervention-oriented, patient and population-focused and policy-sensitive. Our overlapping population foci include: homeless and underhoused groups, urban aboriginals, women and children at risk, immigrants and refugees, people living with HIV/AIDS and people living with severe and persistent mental illness.

Our strategic objectives:

  • To advance the conceptualization of inner city health.
  • To create knowledge about health issues affecting inner city populations.
  • To work with our community partners through such avenues as community-based participatory research.
  • To educate researchers in the field of inner city health and to develop research capacity through graduate training.
  • To support the translation of new knowledge about urban health into appropriate practices and policies.

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Background

Founded in 1998, CRICH has rapidly become a magnet for North America's most influential researchers in the field of urban health. Our faculty and staff represent the full range of health and social sciences. Our areas of strength include social and clinical epidemiology, general medicine, psychiatry, preventive medicine and public health, biostatistics, economics, geography and GIS mapping techniques and bioethics.

The attendant health consequences of inner city poverty are global concerns. CRICH researchers have been leaders in establishing an international research agenda for urban health. We co-founded the International Society for Urban Health, have hosted international conferences, and fill roles on the ISUH executive and Journal of Urban Health.

Our monthly newsletter offers additional information about our current projects.