Paul Peters
Associate Professor
| Degrees: | MES (University of Waterloo), PhD (University of Texas, Austin) |
| Email: | paul.peters@carleton.ca |
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Primary field of Specialization:
Population Health; Rural Health; Spatial Data Analysis; Health Geography & Geographic Information Systems
Research Interests:
Despite decades of universal healthcare in Canada and elsewhere, there still remains pronounced inequalities in the social determinants of health and in health outcomes. These inequalities are manifest between social groups across a range of factors, such as income, education, or ethnicity. At the same time, these inequalities are spatially evident, with differences between provinces, regions, villages, and neighbourhoods. Perhaps counterintuitively, the patterns and processes of these inequalities can be measured using large data sources, sometimes termed “big data.” The focus of my research is on these persistent social and structural inequalities of health in small places and small spaces.
The substantive areas of my research are varied, but they are connected methodologically by the use of linked administrative and survey data, whether analysing problems manifest in small areas, or in small places. I prefer research projects that are collaborative in nature and engage with diverse international colleagues across disciplines and domains. My active research projects include development of the Canadian Accessibility and Remoteness Index (CARI+), Postal Code geocoding, small-area rate variation for high health system users in rural areas and, data methods for modelling environmental health. Each of these projects is grounded in a commitment to conduct research informed by the communities and the subjects under study.
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Select Recent Publications:
McGaughey T, Kephart G, Dang U, & PA Peters. (2025) 鈥淐reating an Inclusive Definition for High Resource Inpatient Hospital Users Between and Within Rurality.鈥� International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22(3), 381.
Golestani R, Farahani K, & PA Peters. (2025) 鈥淓xploring Barriers to Accessing Health Care Services by Young Women in Rural Settings: A Qualitative Study in Australia, Canada, and Sweden.鈥� BMC Public Health. 25:213. .
McGaughey, T. & Peters, P. A. (2024) 鈥淲here should we go – Estimating travel times for modelling accessibility to 24-hour emergency departments in Canada.鈥� Scientific Data 11, 853. .
Dissanayake A, Dupuis A, Burton CL, Soreni N, Peters PA, Gajaria A, Arnold P, Crosbie J, & R Schachar. (2024) 鈥淩acial/Ethnic Disparities in Youth Mental Health Traits and Diagnoses within a Community-based Sample.鈥� Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. .
Sheppard-Perkins M, McGaughey T, Peters PA & F Darroch. (2024) 鈥淓xploring the Use of Geographic Methods to Understand Sexual- and Gender-based Violence: A Scoping Review.鈥� Gender, Place & Culture. 1-29. .
Petrie S & PA Peters. (2023) 鈥淗ealth Service Implementation and Antifragile Characteristics in Rural Communities: A Dirt Research Approach.鈥� International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(14): 6418. .
LeBlanc M, McGaughey T, & PA Peters. (2023) 鈥淐haracteristics of High-Resource Health System Users in Rural and Remote Regions: A Scoping Review.鈥� International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(7): 5385. .
Petrie S, Carson D, Peters PA, Hurtig A-K, LeBlanc M, Simpson H, Barnabe J, Young M, Ostafichuk M, Hodge H, Glademan J, Smale M, & M Gonzalez Garcia. (2021) 鈥淲hat a Pandemic Has Taught Us 杏吧原创 the Potential for Innovation in Rural Health: Commencing an Ethnography in Canada, the United States, Sweden, and Australia.鈥� Frontiers in Public Health. 9: 768624 .
Petrie S & PA Peters. (2020) 鈥淯ntangling complexity as a health determinant: Wicked problems in healthcare.鈥� Health Science Inquiry. 11(1):131-135.
LeBlanc M, Petrie S, Paskaran S, Carson DB, & PA Peters. (2020) 鈥淧atient and Provider Perspectives of Rural eHealth Interventions.鈥� Rural and Remote Health. 20(3): 5754.
Peters PA, MT Hidalgo, & E Skop. (2020) 鈥淏uilding a Just City: A Retrospective of Social Segregation in Metropolitan Lima.鈥� Journal of Latin American Geography. 19(4): 269-279.
Asher K & PA Peters. (2020) 鈥淢eat reduction, vegetarianism, or chicken avoidance: U.S. omnivores鈥� impressions of three meat-restricted diets.鈥� British Food Journal. 123(1): 387-402.
Asher K & PA Peters. (2020) 鈥淕o the Whole Nine Yards? How Extent of Meat Restriction Impacts Individual Dietary Experience.鈥� Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 59(4): 436-458.
Johnson M, Brook J, Brook R, Oiamo T, Luginaah I, Peters PA, & JD Spence. (2020) 鈥淭raffic-Related Air Pollution and Carotid Plaque Burden in a Canadian City with Low-Level Ambient Pollution.鈥� Journal of the American Heart Association. 9(e013400).
Harris MA, MacLeod J, Kim J, Pahwa M, Tjepkema M, Peters PA, & PA Demers. (2020) 鈥淯se of a Canadian Population-Based Surveillance Cohort to Test Relationships Between Shift Work and Breast, Ovarian, and Prostate Cancer.鈥� Annals of Work Exposures and Health. 64(4): 387-401.