Ketan Shankardass

Scientist

Wilfrid Laurier University

Ketan Shankardass is an associate professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he also leads the Health Equity Systems Interventions research group at the Laurier Centre for Community Research Learning and Action. He received a doctorate in Epidemiology from the University of Southern California, and completed postdoctoral training in Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Health of Marginalized Populations at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St. Michael’s Hospital. Across his diverse program of research, Dr. Shankardass aims to use research to support innovative solutions for more equitable health systems.

Publications

Ta M, Shankardass K. Piloting the Use of Concept Mapping to Engage Geographic Communities for Stress and Resilience Planning in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021; 18(20):10977.

Elayan S, Sykora M, Shankardass K, Robertson C, Feick R, Shaughnessy K, Lawrence H, and Jackson T. Using Geo-The Stresscapes Ontology System: Detecting and Measuring Stress on Social Media. Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Social Media, 2020: 74-82.

Shankardass K, Robertson C, Shaughnessy K, Sykora M, Feick R. A unified ecological framework for studying effects of digital places on well-being. Social Science and Medicine. 2018. 227:119-27.