Anne Martin-Matthews
Scientific director for the Institute of Aging at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Contributor Biography
Dr. Anne Martin-Matthews was appointed the Scientific Director of the Institute of Aging on March 1, 2004 for a four-year term. She is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. She holds a B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from Memorial University of Nfld. (1971) and an M.A. (1974) and PhD (1980) in Sociology from McMaster University. Between 1978 and 1998, she was on faculty in the Dept. of Family Studies at the University of Guelph, where she was the founding Director of the Gerontology Research Centre.
Between 1990 and 1995, Dr. Martin-Matthews was one of four co-Principal Investigators on CARNET: The Canadian Aging Research Network, the first federal Network of Centres of Excellence-funded Aging Research Network, the first federal Network of Centres of Excellence-funded program to include researchers associated with all three federal funding Councils. She joined the faculty of UBC in January 1998. At UBC, she has held academic administrative positions as Director of the School of Family and Nutritional Sciences (1998-1999), Associate Dean Research and Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Arts (1999-2001) and Dean pro tem of the Faculty of Arts (2001-2002).
Her publications include two books: Widowhood in Later Life (1991) and Aging at the Intersection of Work and Home Life: Blurring the Boundaries (2008), and over 125 peer-reviewed articles and chapters on aging, formal and informal support, and health. Her current research on home care and human health resource issues is funded through CIHR, SSHRC's Major Collaborative Research Initiatives program, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
Dr. Martin-Matthews was Social Sciences Division Chair of the Canadian Association on Gerontology, Social Sciences editor for the Canadian Journal on Aging/La revue canadienne du vieillissement (1993-1996), and its Editor-in-Chief (1996-2000). She has served on review and/or advisory committees for the Ontario Mental Health Foundation, the Ontario Ministry of Health, the Gerontology Research Council of Ontario, and the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services; at the federal level, for the National Health Research and Development Program (NHRDP), the Health Promotion Directorate of Health and Welfare Canada, the Division of Aging and Seniors of Health Canada, and on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Seniors' Independence Research Program (SIRP) of Health Canada; and at the international level, for the Medical Research Council-UK. From 2001-2004 she was the Vice-Chair of the Institute Advisory Board of the Institute of Aging and from 2000-2004 also served as a member of the Research Advisory Council of BC's Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. She is currently a member of the Gerontological Advisory Committee of Veterans' Affairs Canada and the Advisory Council of SSHRC's Strategic Knowledge Cluster on Population Change and Lifecourse.
Anne Martin-Matthews is a Fellow of the (U.S.) Gerontological Society of America and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She received the Distinguished Alumni Award from McMaster University in 1997 and a Macdonald Institute Centenary Award from the University of Guelph in 2003.
