Scientist, Women's College Research Institute
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto 
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto 

Dr. Robin Mason is a scientist in the Violence and Health Research Program at Women's College Research Institute and an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Mason is a qualitative researcher interested in knowledge translation and participatory action projects that address issues of violence and social justice. In collaboration with scientists at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and with funding from the province of Ontario, Dr. Mason recently developed a curriculum to help front-line practitioners to understand the links between mental health issues, substance abuse and interpersonal violence. Making Connections: When Domestic Violence, Mental Health, and Substance Use Problems Co-Occur was designed with input from more than 300 frontline health-care workers from across Ontario, as well as women with lived experience of violence, mental health and substance use issues. It aims to give front-line workers the tools they need to provide more comprehensive support for women with these co-occuring challenges.

Dr. Mason has also studied the perceptions of and responses to intimate partner violence in Toronto's Tamil community and is interested in extending this work to other newcomer communities to develop culturally appropriate violence prevention strategies. She is an investigator on a project exploring the influence of life in Canada on gender relations within Ethiopian couples and their patterns of adaptation to these changes.

Dr. Mason is responsible for the development of community-based partnerships for research on intimate partner abuse and its health impacts. She works directly with hospital staff at Women's College Hospital through the REACH initiative. Dr. Mason works with a number of community-based organizations including the Women Abuse Council of Toronto, Education Wife Assault, Family Service Association and Campaign 2000, among others. She is voluntary president of the board of North York Community House.