Scientist, Women’s College Research Institute
Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Dr. Janice Du Mont is an applied psychologist and a scientist in the Violence and Health Research Program at Women’s College Research Institute. She is also an associate professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Du Mont examines the impact of gender-based violence on women's health, with a particular focus on the medical and legal responses to sexual assault. She is principal investigator on a client evaluation of hospital-based sexual assault and domestic violence adult and pediatric services. She was recently co-principal investigator on a two-year study examining the use of drugs in facilitating sexual assault, and was also an investigator on the HIV post-exposure prophylaxis project, which explored its usefulness for women who have been sexually assaulted.

Much of Dr. Du Mont’s research has also involved secondary data analyses of population-based surveys focused on victimization. She is currently principal investigator on a study examining mental, physical and behavioural consequences of intimate partner violence for immigrant women and men.

Dr. Du Mont has served as an advisor to a World Health Organization initiative to document the criminalization of sexual violence across regions. In 2007, Dr. Du Mont and her colleague Dr. Deborah White completed a global review of the impacts and uses of medico-legal evidence in sexual assault cases for the World Health Organization and Sexual Violence Research Initiative of the Global Forum for Health Research. A summary of this document is also available.

Dr. Du Mont was twice the holder of a New Investigator Award from the Institute of Gender and Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

For more about Dr. Du Mont see her profile in the University of Toronto's Edge Magazine.