Professor
Charmaine Williams
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
PhD, MSW,B.A, BSc
Location
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
Address
246 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 1V4
Research Interests
Mental Health, women's health, HIV prevention, equity and health, anti-racism, LGBTQ, social work practice, Rehabilitation Health Services Studies, Social and Cognitive Rehabilitation Sciences
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Professor Charmaine C. Williams joined the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work in 2002. She is currently serving as Dean of the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.
Dr. Williams’s research bridges practice and access and equity issues that affect various populations including racial minority women, LGBTQ individuals in a local and international context, and individuals and families affected by serious and persistent mental illnesses. Topics of her research and scholarship include: HIV prevention in Black communities, mental health of Black Canadians, community-based research, women’s health and gender-based violence.
Recent Publications
- Kourgiantakis, T., Markoulakis, R., Lee, E., *Hussain, A., *Lau, C., Ashcroft, R., Goldstein, A., Kodeeswaran, S., Williams, C.C., & Levitt, A. (2023) Access to mental health and addiction care for youth and their families in Ontario: Perspectives of parents, youth, and service providers. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 17(4), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-023-00572-z.
- Williams, C.C., Gibson, M., Mooney, E., Curling, D., Steele, L., green, d. & Ross, L. (2023, online first). A structural analysis of depression and gender-based violence in the lives of sexual minority women and trans people. Affilia., 0(0), https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099231155887
- Bagby, R.M., Keeley, J.W., Williams, C.C., Mortezaei, A., Ryder, A.G. & Selborn, M. (2022). Evaluating the Measurement Invariance of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) in Black Americans and White Americans. Psychological Assessment, 34(1), 82-90. DOI: 10.1037/pas0001085.
- Middelton-Moz, J., Mishna, F., Martell, R., Williams, C. & Zuberi, S. (2021). Indigenous trauma and resilience: Pathways to ‘bridging the river’ in social work education. Social Work Education, DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2021.1998427
- Newman, P.A., Chakrapani, V., Williams, C., Massauoi, N., Tepjan, S., Roungprakhon, S., Akkakanjanasupar, P., Logie, C., Rawat, S. (2021). An eHealth intervention for promoting COVID-19 knowledge and protective behaviours and reducing pandemic distress among sexual and gender minorities: Protocol for a randomized controll trial (#SafeHandsSafeHearts). JMIR Research Protocols, 10(12): e34381.
- MacKinnon, K., Guta, A., Voronka, J., Pilling, M., Williams, C.C., Strike, C., & Ross, L.E. (2021). The political economy of peer research: Mapping the possibilities and precarities of paying people for lived experience. British Journal of Social Work. 51(3), 888-906. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa241
- Williams, C.C., Forbes, J.A., Placide, K., & Nicol, N. (2020). Religion, hate, love and advocacy for LGBT human rights in Saint Lucia. Sexuality Research and Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-020-00429-x.
- Husbands, W., Miller, D., McCready, L.T., Williams, C.C., Guy, L., Harriott, A., James, C.E., Luyobya, H., Mohidin, O., Ozzoude, C., Poon, M.K., & Tabi, E. (2019). Sexuality and Sexual Agency Among Heterosexual Black Men in Toronto: Tradition, Contradiction and Emergent Possibilities in the Context of HIV and Health. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 44(4), 399-424
- Williams, C.C. (2019) Critical oral history: Reflections on method and medium. Qualitative Social Work, 18(5), 787-799. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325018777902
- Logie, C., Williams, C., Wang, Y., Marcus, N., Kazemi, M., Cioppa, L., Kaida, A., Webster, K., Beaver, K., de Pokomandy, A., Loutfy, M. (2019). Adapting stigma mechanism frameworks to explore complex pathways between intersectional stigma and HIV-related health outcomes among women living with HIV in Canada. Social Science & Medicine, 232, 129-138. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.04.044
Honours and Awards
- 2022 – present | Sandra Rotman Chair in Social Work
- 2009 – 2019 | Factor-Inwentash Chair in Health and Mental Health