Adam Easterbrook

Program Head – Knowledge Translation, PHD

Dr. Easterbrook conducts qualitative research that embeds him within health systems, with the aim of identifying approaches to improve practice and policy. His research includes exploring how complex health systems differentially influence those who work in, or access, them. This holistic systems perspective allows for identifying approaches to facilitate change that consider the complexities inherent within medical systems and related contexts.

Research Interests

• Supporting and advocating for access and inclusion within health systems
• Examining the influence that barriers to access and inclusion have on equity deserving groups, including policies and practices to help mitigate these
• Exploring how to successfully implement and sustain change within health systems
• Qualitative methodologies that focus on knowledge translation, including community-based participatory research, developmental evaluation, and grounded theory
• Disability studies, seniors and long-term care, people who use drugs, LGBTQIA2S+ individuals

A cornerstone of Dr. Easterbrook’s research is a focus on the experiences of equity deserving groups. This involves applying an intersectional lens in his research, work, and teaching. Dr. Easterbrook aims to facilitate changes through practice and policy recommendations that create more inclusive and safer health systems.