Rachelle Ashcroft, MSW, PhD
University of Toronto (Ontario)
Rachelle Ashcroft is an Associate Professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto, and cross-appointed to the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. She received her BSW and MSW from the University of Manitoba, and her PhD in Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University. She completed the Social Aetiology of Mental Illness training program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and was a TUTOR-PHC trainee in the 2010-2011 cohort. She is a health systems researcher with focus on strengthening interprofessional primary health care, and collaborative mental health care. She has a number of projects underway including: mixed-methods investigation of patients' experiences with virtual care in primary care; mixed-methods examination of the role of social work in primary care; mixed-methods examination of the role of pharmacists with mental health in primary care; and a qualitative study examining primary care’s contributions to COVID-19 vaccination distribution. Dr. Ashcroft is a core-funded investigator of INSPIRE-PHC.
