David De Wit

avid De Wit, Ph.D., is Senior Research Scientist with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health located in London, Ontario and an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Western Ontario. He is also an Associate Scientist with the Lawson Health Research Institute (also in London). His primary research interests include the evaluation of community interventions for vulnerable populations, environmental influences on child health and well-being, and risk and protective factors for child and youth mental health problems and substance addiction. He has led or co-led a number of grant-funded projects including a five year study funded by the National Institutes of Health to evaluate the effectiveness of a family skills-based intervention for children of parents struggling with alcohol problems. He recently received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (De Wit, P.I., $1.7 million) to study the impact of Big Brother Big Sister community match relationships across Canada on the health and well-being of children in need of an adult mentor. Throughout his career he has published in several scientific journals and delivered numerous presentations to the scientific and lay communities. He recently completed a five year term on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Marriage and the Family and currently serves as a grant reviewer for the Child Health Committee, Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He has given a number of guest lectures to students in both undergraduate and graduate level courses primarily dealing with statistical techniques for handling missing values and techniques for analyzing longitudinal data. He currently supervises one Masters level student and one Ph.D. student.