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Overview

Kwame McKenzie is affiliated with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada. Their research spans several intersecting fields within psychology, health professions, and social sciences. Key areas of focus include mental health treatment and access, health disparities and outcomes, migration, health and trauma, homelessness and social issues, climate change and health impacts, schizophrenia research and treatment, and digital mental health interventions.

Their publication record reflects contributions in prominent venues such as:

  • The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
  • Journal of Urban Health
  • The Lancet
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

Some notable recent papers include:

  • "Guidelines for Training in Cultural Psychiatry" (2020), published in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Climate Change, Weather, Housing Precarity, and Homelessness: A Systematic Review of Reviews" (2021), published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Global Climate Implications for Homelessness: A Scoping Review" (2020), published in Journal of Urban Health
  • "Depression-level symptoms among Syrian refugees: findings from a Canadian longitudinal study" (2020), published in Journal of Mental Health
  • "Assessing Virtual Mental Health Access for Refugees during the COVID-19 Pandemic Using the Levesque Client-Centered Framework: What Have We Learned and How Will We Plan for the Future?" (2022), published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

The frequent coauthors collaborating with McKenzie are:

  • Sean A. Kidd
  • Andrew Tuck
  • Michaela Hynie
  • Mariya Bezgrebelna
  • Anna Oda

The scientist's work covers multiple subfields including General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, and Health. This interdisciplinary approach supports their focus on both clinical and social dimensions of health.

Best Publications

  • Social capital and mental illness: a systematic review

    Mary J De Silva;Kwame McKenzie;Trudy Harpham;Sharon R A Huttly

  • Incidence of schizophrenia in ethnic minorities in London: ecological study into interactions with environment

    J Boydell;J van Os;K McKenzie;J Allardyce

  • The association between cannabis use and depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.

    S. Lev-Ran;M. Roerecke;B. Le Foll;T. P. George

  • Social Capital and Mental Health

    Kwame McKenzie;Rob Whitley;Scott Weich

  • Cultural competence in mental health care: a review of model evaluations

    Kamaldeep Bhui;Nasir Warfa;Patricia Edonya;Kwame McKenzie

  • Premorbid social functioning in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: similarities and differences.

    Mary Cannon;Peter Jones;Catherine Gilvarry;Larry Rifkin

  • Discrimination and delusional ideation

    I.C.M. Janssen;M.S.S. Hanssen;M.L.F.J. Bak;R.V. Bijl

  • Understanding the excess of psychosis among the African-Caribbean population in England. Review of current hypotheses.

    M Sharpley;G Hutchinson;K McKenzie;R M Murray

  • The WPA-Lancet Psychiatry Commission on the Future of Psychiatry

    Dinesh Bhugra;Dinesh Bhugra;Allan Tasman;Soumitra Pathare;Stefan Priebe

  • Risk factors for suicide in young people suffering from schizophrenia: a long-term follow-up study

    Marc De Hert;Kwame McKenzie;Joseph Peuskens

  • Racism psychosis and common mental disorder among ethnic minority groups in England

    Saffron Karlsen;James Y. Nazroo;Kwame McKenzie;Kamaldeep Bhui

  • Parental separation, loss and psychosis in different ethnic groups: a case-control study

    Craig Morgan;James Kirkbride;Julian Leff;Tom Craig

  • What is mental health? Evidence towards a new definition from a mixed methods multidisciplinary international survey

    Laurie A Manwell;Skye P Barbic;Karen Roberts;Zachary Durisko

  • Racial/ethnic discrimination and common mental disorders among workers: Findings from the EMPIRIC study of ethnic minority groups in the United Kingdom

    Kamaldeep Bhui;Stephen Stansfeld;Kwame McKenzie;Saffron Karlsen

  • Prevalence of violent victimisation in severe mental illness.

    Elizabeth Walsh;Paul A Moran;Paul A Moran;Charles Scott;Kwame McKenzie

  • Health impacts of flooding in Lewes: a comparison of reported gastrointestinal and other illness and mental health in flooded and non-flooded households.

    M Reacher;K McKenzie;C Lane;T Nichols

  • Social capital and psychiatry: review of the literature

    Rob Whitley;Kwame McKenzie

  • Pathways to care and ethnicity. 1: Sample characteristics and compulsory admission. Report from the AESOP study.

    Craig Morgan;Rosemarie M. Mallett;Gerard Hutchinson;Hemant Bagalkote

  • Early psychological adjustment in breast cancer patients: a prospective study.

    Chiara Nosarti;Jonathan V Roberts;Timothy Crayford;Kwame McKenzie

  • Does racial discrimination cause mental illness

    Apu Chakraborty;Kwame McKenzie

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean A. Kidd
Sean A. Kidd Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Kamaldeep Bhui
Kamaldeep Bhui University of Oxford
Craig Morgan
Craig Morgan King's College London
Tony P. George
Tony P. George Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
David M. Ndetei
David M. Ndetei University of Nairobi
Larry Davidson
Larry Davidson Yale University
Samuel Noh
Samuel Noh University of Toronto
Aristotle N. Voineskos
Aristotle N. Voineskos Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Dinesh Bhugra
Dinesh Bhugra King's College London
Rob Whitley
Rob Whitley McGill University

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