Weizhen Dong

Associate Professor

Female faculty member

PhD (Toronto)

MA (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague)

weizhen@uwaterloo.ca

519-888-4567 x 47768

Research and teaching areas

Research areas:

  • Social Policy
  • Population Health
  • Healthcare Systems

Teaching areas:

  • Social Policy Analysis
  • Sociology of Health
  • Comparative Healthcare Systems
  • Research Design

Graduate Supervision: Social Justice and Equity, Health and Wellbeing, Healthcare Systems, Policy Analysis

Recent publications

  • Dong W (2022) “Adult Day Programs in the New Reality of High Prevalence of Dementia” European Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, Volume-4, Issue-1. Pp27-34 DOI:10.24018/ejmed.2022.4.1.1206

  • Mursal A & Dong W (2022) “Should Canada Pay for Refugee Healthcare? A Social Justice Analysis of the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP)”. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2022.2128492

  • Dong W (2022) “Informal Caregiving and Its Hidden Cost to National Economy: With a Toronto Case Study”. EJ-MED Volume-4, Issue-1. Pp15-23 https://www.ej-med.org/index.php/ejmed/article/view/1186 DOI: 10.24018/ejmed.2022.4.1.1186

Affiliation: 
University of Waterloo

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