Ray Jewett (he/him)
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Research and Professional Interests
Ray is a community health geographer born in Oakville, Ontario. Ray’s family is white- European, from Belgium and France and settled in Canada 3 generations ago in rural Ontario and Saskatchewan. Ray currently lives in Hamilton and has lived in Calgary and Squamish. Ray co-founded and is the Chair of the GeoHealth Network, a student-focused organization that builds capacity for health geography through free geography education, resources and community events. Ray was a 2019 - 2020 CIHR Health System Impact Fellow with the Canadian Institute for Health Information and a 2020 Queen Elizabeth II Science and Technology Scholar. Ray contributed to the CIHR-IPPH lead project United Nations Research Roadmap for COVID-19 Recovery and has written policy on built and natural environmental indicators of community health that was presented at the 75th World Health Organization General Assembly. Ray’s research program integrates spatial information systems and geography theory into community health service planning and policy. Ray’s doctoral research measures the accessibility and utilization of primary care across Ontario. A secondary objective is to compare the concepts of accessibility with utilization to primary care, at local and global scales, in urban and rural communities, to better understand distinct community priorities and shared priorities for planning. This common ground reveals opportunities to meet regional and local responsibilities for collaboration to meet legislated health service responsibilities. This work takes a mixed-methods approach and centers the needs of the community and end-users of the information from the beginning of the research process.
Honours and Awards
- 2021 University of Toronto, Dept of Geography and Planning, Research Award
- 2020-2021 Esri Canada, University of Toronto, Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science & Technology
- 2020 UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research Conference – Poster Award 2020
- 2019-2020 University of Toronto, Dept of Geography and Planning, Research Award
- 2019-2020 Canadian Institutes for Health Research – IPPH, Health System Impact Fellowship – Doctoral Award
- 2018 Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE), Travel Award (IMGS 2019)
- 2018 University of Toronto – Dept of Geography, John D. Barnes Geodetic Sciences Fellowship
- 2016 Canadian Institutes for Health Research – IHSPR, Travel Award (Canadian Stroke Congress 2016)
- 2016 University of Calgary, School of Graduate Studies, Graduate Student Fellowship
- 2014 McMaster University, Experiential Education Grant Travel Award (CASPHR 2014)
- 2013 Canadian Stroke Network, Travel Award (Canadian Stroke Congress 2013)
- 2011-2014 Population Health Research Institute/McMaster University, Summer Studentship Grant (4x)
Teaching
Course Instructor/Sessional Instructor
- Geospatial Analysis for Public Health (HLSC 3Q90), Fall 2022, Department of Health Sciences, Brock University
- GIS for Population Health (GGR322), Winter 2022, Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment, University of Toronto Mississauga
- Geospatial Analysis for Public Health (HLSC 3Q90), Fall 2021, Department of Health Sciences, Brock University
- Introductory Analytical Methods (GGR270), Fall 2020, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto – St George
- Health Geography (GGR 340), Spring 2020, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto – St George
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Paper
- Friesen, E. L., Kurdyak, P., Jewett, R., Smith, B., Hobin, E., Tanuseputro, P., & Myran, D. (2022). Associations between the physical availability of alcohol and alcohol use: Regional variation across 15 major cities in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, jsad-21.
- Jewett R, Mah SM, Howell N, Larsen MM. (2021). Social Cohesion and Community Resilience During COVID-19 and Pandemics: A Rapid Scoping Review to Inform the United Nations Research Roadmap for COVID-19 Recovery. International Journal of Health Services. Doi: 10.1177/0020731421997092. Available online.
- SPOR Evidence Alliance (Atlantic). “The implementation of rapid point of care testing in non-traditional settings”. Halifax, NS. A rapid review for the Health Canada COVID-19 Testing and Screening Expert Advisory Panel. February 2021. Available on their website (https://sporevidencealliance.ca/) and at this link.
- United Nations (UN). “United Nations Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery”. New York, NY. November 2020. Available from: https://www.un.org/en/pdfs/UNCOVID19ResearchRoadmap.pdf. Contribution: scoping review for Pillar 5: Social Cohesion and Community Resilience during COVID-19 and Pandemics.
- Bielska IA, Embrett M, Jewett R, Buote R, Manis DR, Parikh M, Speicher DJ, Agarwal G, Nartowski R, Finnegan H, Bandara T, Hamilton CB, Moore E, Liu RH, Roher SIG, Lopatina E, Nguyen DTK, Lawrence L, Lukewich J (2020: In press). Canada’s Multi-Jurisdictional COVID-19 Public Health Response – January to May 2020. Public Health and Governance/Zdrowie Publiczne i Zarządzanie; 18(1):88-105.
- Greenwood-Lee J, Jewett R, Woodhouse L, Marshall DA. A categorisation of problems and solutions to improve patient referrals from primary to specialty care. BMC Health Services Research. 2018 Dec;18(1):986.
- Jewett R, Harroud A, Hill MD, Côté R, Wein T, Smith EE, Gubitz G, Demchuk AM, Sahlas DJ, Gladstone DJ, Lindsay MP. Secondary stroke prevention services in Canada: a cross-sectional survey and geospatial analysis of resources, capacity and geographic access. CMAJ open. 2018 Feb;6(1):E95-102.
- Holodinsky JK, Patel AB, Thornton J, Kamal N, Jewett R, Kelly PJ, Murphy S, Collins R, Walsh T, Cronin S, Power S. Drip and ship versus direct to endovascular thrombectomy: The impact of treatment times on transport decision-making. European Stroke Journal. 2018 Feb 14:2396987318759362.
- Jewett R, Mirian A, Connolly B, Silver FL, Sahlas DJ. Use of Geospatial Modeling to Evaluate the Impact of Telestroke on Access to Stroke Thrombolysis in Ontario. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 2017 Jul 1;26(7):1400-6.
- Barber CE, Jewett R, Badley EM, Lacaille D, Cividino A, Ahluwalia V, Averns H, Baillie C, Ellsworth J, Pope J, Levy D. Stand up and be counted: measuring and mapping the rheumatology workforce in Canada. The Journal of Rheumatology. 2016 Dec 1:jrheum-160621.
Organization White Papers
- Global Preparedness Monitoring Board. (2022). Global Monitoring of Upstream Determinants of Health Emergencies. Presented to the World Health Organization 75th General Assembly. May 2022. Contribution: Indicators of health emergencies in the built and natural environment. Available at https://www.gpmb.org/home Fall 2022.
- SPOR Evidence Alliance (Atlantic). “The implementation of rapid point of care testing in non-traditional settings”. Halifax, NS. A rapid review for the Health Canada COVID-19 Testing and Screening Expert Advisory Panel. February 2021. Available on their website (https://sporevidencealliance.ca/) and at this link.
- Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Merlin, Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research. (2021). “Primary Health Workforce Planning in Northern Ontario: A Preliminary Model for Human Capital Planning”. Sudbury, ON. A Report to the Ontario Ministry of Labour. Internal Communications with Government of Ontario.
- United Nations (UN). “United Nations Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery”. New York, NY. November 2020. Available from: https://www.un.org/en/pdfs/UNCOVID19ResearchRoadmap.pdf. Contribution: scoping review for Pillar 5: Social Cohesion and Community Resilience during COVID-19 and Pandemics.
Book Chapters
- Plue, R., Jewett, R., & Widener, M. J. (2020). Considerations When Using Individual GPS Data in Food Environment Research: A Scoping Review of ‘Selective (Daily) Mobility Bias’ in GPS Exposure Studies and Its Relevance to the Retail Food Environment. In Geospatial Technologies for Urban Health (pp. 95-112). Springer, Cham.
Conference Abstracts and Publications (*Speaker)
- Jewett R*. Integrating Geography into Health Services Research Study Design. UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research – Health Policy Conference. March 2020. Vancouver, Canada.
- Jewett R* and Widener MJ. Mapping Stroke Risk Factors and Services Across Canada. International Medical Geography Symposium. July 2019. Queenstown, New Zealand.
- Widener MJ, Lui D, and Jewett R. Comparing time use, transportation options, and dietary behaviours in three Toronto, Canada neighbourhoods: Initial results from the FASTT survey. International Medical Geography Symposium. July 2019. Queenstown, New Zealand.
- Kutty S, Oakes GH, Jewett R, Pardhan AM, Forsey A, and Kingsbury K. Cardiac Care Network of Ontario Clinical Registry Data to Evaluate Proposed Stand-Alone PCI programs in Ontario. National Cardiovascular Data Registry Conference. 2014, Washington, DC.
- Lindsay MP, Jewett R, Michael D, Swartz RH, Kamal N. Putting Stroke Services on the Map – Using Geospatial Analysis for Stroke System Planning. International Journal of Stroke. 2018 Oct;13(1):58.
- Jewett R*, Connolly BJ, & Sahlas DJ A Geoinformatic Analysis of the Impact of Telestroke on Access to Stroke Thrombolysis in Ontario. Stroke 2013;44(12):E179-E179. Canadian Association of Health Services Policy Research, 2014, Toronto, Canada.