Nicole Kozloff

Nicole Kozloff is a child and youth psychiatrist in the Slaight Centre Early Intervention Service and a scientist and director of the Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth & Family Mental Health at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. She is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. She completed her MD at Queen’s University, residency training in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Toronto, a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and a CIHR Fellowship at the Centre for Urban Health Solutions at St. Michael’s Hospital. Her research focuses on understanding and improving health services for youth with serious mental illness. She is a champion for scientific mentorship, particularly of clinician-scientists and women in science. 

Research Synopsis

Dr. Kozloff studies mental health services for transition-age youth with serious mental illness. She uses a variety of methods in her research, including analysis of health administrative databases and large surveys, pragmatic clinical trials, longitudinal cohort studies, and qualitative analysis. Her work engages key knowledge partners, particularly youth with lived experience of mental illness. Her work aims to improve access to and effectiveness of services for young people with serious mental illness.