Charmaine Williams

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

1. 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.   
2. 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 
3. 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. 
4. 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 
5. 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.  
6. 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 
7. 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. 
8. 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 
9. 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 
10. 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

• Sandra Rotman Chair in Social Work 2022 – present 
• Factor-Inwentash Chair in Health and Mental Health 2009 – 2019