Ray Jewett

Ray is a PhD Candidate in the Spatial Information Systems program at the Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto. Ray's doctoral thesis designs a spatial index and accompanying measurement framework to assess gaps in equitable access to public health services across Ontario. Ray's work integrates Critical GIS, mixed methods, health services and policy research, and institutional ethnography to improve measurement of the social environment in health service planning and funding.

Ray currently leads spatial data infrastructure design and equitable access measurement for the Northern Regions Business Intelligence and Analytics Unit with Ontario Health. Ray teaches Health Geography and GIS for Population Health, as well as Population and Society (Dept of Sociology).

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. Cheng, I., Rosychuk, R. J., Yeom, D. S., Jewett, R. L., Bielska, I. A., Hayward, J., ... & Canadian COVID-19 Emergency Department Rapid Response Network (CCEDRRN) Investigators. (2024). The association between neighbourhood marginalization and SARS-CoV-2 outcomes in patients presenting to emergency departments. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 1-12.

2. Global Preparedness Monitoring Board. (2023). Global Monitoring of Upstream Determinants of Health Emergencies - Annual Reports. https://www.gpmb.org/reports/m/item/global-monitoring-of-upstream-determ.... Contribution: Indicators of Health Emergencies Across the Built and Natural Environments and Policy Options.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.