Tracie Affifi
Dr. Tracie Afifi is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Childhood Adversity and Resilience, a Professor in the College of Community and Global Health and cross-appointed to the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba, and a Research Scientist at the Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Child Abuse & Neglect. Dr. Afifi's primary research interests are in the areas of child maltreatment and mental health with a focus on resilience, intervention, and prevention. She has published over 265 peer-reviewed journal publications and has 230 conference presentations at national and international conferences. To date, she has been awarded $55 million in research funding as Principal or Co-Investigator. Dr. Afifi is an inducted college member of the Royal Society of Canada, the 2018 recipient of the Royal-Mach-Gaensslen Prize for Mental Health Research, the 2019 recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Gold Leaf Award, the 2020 recipient of the Alexander Leighton Award in psychiatric epidemiology, named Canada's 2021 top 100 most powerful women by the WXN Diversity Council of Canada, the 2023 recipient of the University of Manitoba Distinguished Alumni Award for Academic Innovation, and a 2025 inducted Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Research Discipline:
Social, Cultural, Environmental, and Population Health Research
Institution: University of Manitoba
Email: Tracie.Afifi@umanitoba.ca
Career Stage: Senior Investigator