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Blair Wheaton is a Professor of Sociology and holds the S.D. Clark Chair at the University of Toronto. Based on the St. George campus, they are available for supervising graduate students and work at the intersection of Computational and Quantitative Methods, Health & Mental Health, and Life Course and Aging.
- Role: Professor of Sociology, S.D. Clark Chair
- Institution: University of Toronto
- Research Focus: Mental health disparities, social stress processes, life course analysis, and migration impacts
Blair Wheaton's research spans mental health sociology, with a focus on socioeconomic disparities, stress modeling, longitudinal data analysis, and cross-cultural adaptation. Their recent work examines how welfare policies and country-of-origin factors shape mental health outcomes, alongside methodological contributions in regression models and contextual population research. Articles highlight the interplay of social stressors, life transitions, and structural determinants across lifespan stages.
Key trends in their publications include:
- Quantitative frameworks for stressor measurement
- Socioeconomic and policy-driven mental health equity
- Migration-related trauma and adaptation
- Life course effects on psychiatric disorders
- Neighborhood and contextual influences on well-being
- Temporal dynamics of stress processes
