Recruitment Hightlight Research Annual Report 2005

New Psychiatric and Addiction Nursing Research Chair

Dr. Carles Muntaner is an international leader in showing how workplace organization and social class have profound effects on physical and  mental health.

Recruiting the best people is an ongoing commitment of the Research Program, a commitment that allows us to improve the quality and extend the breadth of research at CAMH.

One of our recruitment highlights this year has been the appointment of Dr. Carles Muntaner as a senior scientist in the Culture, Community and Health Studies (CCHS) section of the Social, Prevention and Health Policy Research Department. In addition to this appointment, Dr. Muntaner is also the first recipient of the Psychiatric and Addiction Nursing Research Chair, a position co-sponsored by CAMH and the University of Toronto, where he is full  professor at the Faculty of Nursing and in the Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Muntaner brings to the CCHS section his outstanding scholarship in areas such as the social epidemiology of substance use and mental health, occupational health and international health. His work is best known for its study of inequalities in health-explaining how health, illness, death and health care access are unevenly distributed across  various social groups defined by, for example, social class, gender, race and ethnicity-and for showing how such inequalities are deeply rooted in social structures and economic systems. Dr. Muntaner is an international leader in showing how workplace organization and social class have profound effects on physical and mental health.

As we continue to develop the nursing research agenda for CAMH, Dr. Muntaner will also work closely with our advanced-practice nurses.

Dr. Muntaner has collaborated extensively with leading social epidemiologists and public health researchers from Spain, Sweden, Mali, Mexico, Chile and Venezuela. His outstanding achievements in conceptualizing and measuring social class and race, and assessing the effects of  work organization and neighbourhood contexts, earned him the opportunity to work with labour unions in the United States, Sweden and Spain.  He is currently helping the Ministry of Public Health in Venezuela to develop public health policy.

Raised and educated in Spain, Dr. Muntaner studied medicine and completed his PhD in medical psychology at the University of Barcelona (MD). He then moved to the United States for post-doctoral fellowship programs at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Johns Hopkins University (psychiatric epidemiology) and the National Institute of Mental Health. He served at the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health at the West Virginia University School of Medicine (assistant professor) and the University of Maryland Schools of Nursing Medicine (full professor), and was cross-appointed with the Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, until he and  his family moved to Toronto in 2004.

Dr. Muntaner has written more than 120 publications in professional journals and more than  35 book chapters, monographs and reports across various disciplines, from psychopharmacology to sociology. His latest book, Political and Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being: Controversies and Developments, was published in 2004 and co-edited with Vicente Navarro. He has received many national and international awards: Behavioral Pharmacology and Toxicology award from the Association for Behavioral Analysis, Fleming Award from Oxford University, Fulbright/Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs Fellowship and, in 2004, the prestigious Wade Hampton Frost Award from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association.

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