Biography
I was born and grew up in Hamilton, Ontario . I did my undergraduate
degree in geography at the University of Toronto (B.A. Honours, 1975)
before going to the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
to do my M.Sc. (Geography, 1976) and Ph.D. . (1980). I taught at the University
of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Ottawa and Carleton
University and worked as a pollster with Angus Reid and a research consultant
with J.F. Hickling Management Consultants before joining the Department
of Geography at Queen’s in 1985.
During my sabbatical leaves, I have been a visitor in the Departments
of Geography at the LSE ( London, England ), the University of Nottingham
(Nottingham, England ), Department of Health Care and Epidemiology and
the Institute of Health Promotion Research at the University of British
Columbia ( Vancouver, British Columbia ) and the Department of Geography
at the University of Canterbury ( Christchurch, New Zealand ).
In 1999, I received the Canadian Association of Geographers’ Award
for Service to the Profession of Geography. Recently, I was invited to
be a 2001 Visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch,
New Zealand .
I am the Chairperson of the International Geographic Union (IGU) Commission
on Health and the Environment, Secretary-General of the North Ameri ca
n Regional Council of the International Association of Gerontology and
Treasurer of the Canadian Federation of Demographers. I also serve as
the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal on Aging, am one of the North
Ameri ca n Editors of Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy
and am on the editorial boards of Canadian Public Policy and Health and
Place.
Teaching Interests
In recent years at Queen’s, my main teaching interests have been
in medi ca l and population geography and research methods. I am currently
teaching GPHY 331* Population Geography and GPHY 339* Medi ca l Geography
at the undergraduate level. At the graduate level, I am teaching GPHY
854* Approaches to Data in Geographic Enquiry and GPHY 887* The Geography
of Health and Health Care.
Recent graduate research that I have supervised includes analyses of
the restructuring of Ontario ’s hospital system, women’s access
to breast screening services, and how municipal restructuring affects
voluntary organisations. I am currently supervising graduate research
on the everyday geographies of ca regiving for the elderly population,
the role of the voluntary sector in rural communities, the geographies
and experiences of children with severe chronic health problems and the
impli ca tions for ca regiving by their families and public participatory
research with the HIV/AIDS community. Increasingly, the graduate student
with whom I work are employing research designs, which combine the use
of qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the multi-dimensionality
of complex issues in the geography of health and health care.
Research
In medical geography, I recently completed a four year project on the
geographies of women’s health funded by Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). There are three elements to this project:
understanding why rates for surgi ca l procedures specific to women vary
geographically; explaining the utilisation of health services through
analyses of the National Population Health Survey; and using qualitative
research methods, to investigate how women navigate and negotiate through
the health care system in their everyday lives. Recently, I led a team
of international researchers who carried out workshops on health and the
environment and produced a series of reports (http://geog.queensu. ca
/h_and_e/healthandenvir/index.htm). This project was principally funded
by the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), the United Nations
Environmental Progamme (UNEP) and SSHRC. I am now involved in a follow-up
project being funded mainly by the German National Committee for Geographic
Research. I also recently completed a four year study where I was the
principal investigator of a multidisciplinary, two university team of
researchers who examined the determinants of seniors' independence (http://post.queensu.
ca /~jlj/dsirp/). My graduate students and I also continue to do research
on various issues linked to the geographic distribution and access to
health services in Ontario and Canada .
New projects include a three year study of the voluntary sector (2004-2007),
Geographies of Volunteerism, funded by SSHRC where the key goal is to
examine how the restructuring experiences of the 1990s affected voluntary
organizations and volunteers at various geographic scales. Using the the
Canadian Community Health Survey, we have completed an Atlas of Mental
Health of Ontario funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term
Care and expect to do more work on this topic and Health Canada is supporting
research on public private partnerships in the delivery of health services.
In the field of ageing and population studies, I have been engaged in
a series of studies examining changing demographic, socio-economic and
geographic characteristics of various groups within the Canadian population.
These studies have included research on the elderly population, the demographic
profiles of Ontario 's disabled population and the characteristics of
their everyday lives, where immigrants go once they arrive in Canada,
and various aspects of Canada’s Native Peoples. Much of this research
was funded by a five year program of research on Canada ’s ageing
population as part of a broader program of research entitled the Social
and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population (SEDAP) (http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca
/sedap/) funded by the SSHRC. SEDAP II (2005 to 2009) has now been funded
by SSHRC and over the next five years, I will be doing new projects on
access to health services by Canada ’s elderly population and on
the evolving needs of seniors among Canada ’s Native Peoples.
I am completing a four year multidisciplinary study entitled Aging across
Canada: Comparing Service Rich and Service Poor Communities funded by
the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). This project looks
at how those people responsible for delivering services, advo ca tes for
seniors and key decision makers in communities see the strengths and weakness
of their communities in providing services for seniors.
What ties all of these projects together is their direct links to current
debates in public policy. This is reflected in both the sources of funding
I receive and the places where my research is published.
Publications
Skinner, Mark W. and Mark W. Rosenberg, “Informal and voluntary
care in Canada : caught in the act?” in Landscapes of Voluntarism:
New Spaces of Health, Welfare and Governance . C. Milligan and D. Conradson,
eds. Bristol : Policy Press (forthcoming).
Wiles, Janine, L. Mark W. Rosenberg and Robin Kearns, “Narrative
analysis as a strategy for understanding interview talk in qualitative
geographic research”, Area (forthcoming).
Rosenberg, Mark W. and Kathleen Wilson “Remaking medical geography”
Territoris (forthcoming).
Skinner, Mark W., and Mark W. Rosenberg, “Co-opting voluntarism?
Exploring the implications of long-term ca re reform for the non-profit
sector in Ontario ”, Environment and Planning C: Government and
Policy. 2005, Vol. 23, pp. 101-121.
Wilson, Kathi and Mark W. Rosenberg, “Accessibility and the Canadian
health care system: squaring perceptions and realities”, Health
Policy. Vol. 67, No. 2, 2004, pp. 137-148.
McWilliam, Carol L., Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown, John Feightner,
Mark W. Rosenberg, Gloria Gutman, Margaret Penning, Miriam Stewart, Robyn
Tamblyn and Grace Morfitt, “Promoting evidence-based health policy,
programming and practice for seniors: lessons from a national knowledge
transfer project”, Canadian Journal on Aging. Vol. 22, No. 4, 2003,
pp. 415-430.
Wiles, Janine, L. and Mark W. Rosenberg, “Paradoxes and contradictions
in Canada ’s home care provision: informal privatization and private
informalization”, International Journal of Canadian Studies. 2003,
Vol. 28, pp. 63-89.
Wilson, Kathleen and Mark W. Rosenberg, “ Exploring the determinants
of health for First Nations Peoples in Canada : can existing frameworks
accommodate traditional activities?” Social Science and Medicine
. Vol. 55, 2002, pp. 2017-2031
Wilson, Kathleen and Mark W. Rosenberg, “ The geographies of crisis:
exploring accessibility to health care services in Canada,” The
Canadian Geographer. Vol. 46, No. 3, 2002, pp. 223-234.
Rosenberg, Mark W. and Kathleen Wilson, “Exploring the links between
health and housing: the limitations of population health surveys,”
GeoJournal. Vol. 53, No. 2, 2001, pp. 109-116.
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Dr.
Mark W. Rosenberg 
Biography