Ray Jewett

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 Toronto, Calgary and Squamish. Ray’s research program integrates spatial information systems and geography into community health 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, across scales, to better understand shared priorities for planning. This work takes a mixed-methods approach and centers the needs of community partners and end-users of the information from the beginning of the research process.

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.

Publications

1. Global Preparedness Monitoring Board. (2023). Global Monitoring of Upstream Determinants of Health Emergencies - Annual Reports. https://www.gpmb.org/annual-reports/overview/item/global-monitoring-of-u....

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.