Elizabeth Lee Ford Jones, MD, FRCPC
University of Toronto
Social Factors, Child Well-being
Dr. Elizabeth Lee Ford-Jones is a Professor of Paediatrics at The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto. Since June 2007, Dr. Ford-Jones has led a new educational initiative in Social Pediatrics addressing disadvantaged children and youth, recognizing that conditions with social causes and social consequences require special consideration in prevention and management. In this role, she has developed a clinical elective in Social Pediatrics for Medical Students and through community links is providing new project opportunities for Pediatric Residents.
Dr. Ford-Jones spearheaded the production of the first edition of the Canadian Paediatric Society book Well Beings – a guide to promote the physical, health, safety and emotional well-being of children in child care centers and family day care homes. As well as research into the prevention of infection in child care centers, her other academic interests have included hospital acquired infections, vaccine preventable diseases and vaccine safety, encephalitis and infections in pregnancy and infancy. She is a Graduate of Queens’ Medical School and undertook her Pediatric Residency and ID Fellowship at Montreal Children’s (1974-1981).
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Commentaries by Dr. Elizabeth Lee Ford Jones:
Childhood hunger is a Canadian public health crisis // Une nouvelle crise en matière de santé publique?
The kids aren’t all right
