Ellen MacEachen, professeure, University of Waterloo, School of Public Health and Health Systems

Anne Hudon, professeure adjointe, Université de Montréal, Faculté de Médecine, École de réadaptation, Programme de physiothérapie

Katherine Lippel, professeure et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche éminente en droit de la santé et de la sécurité du travail, Université d’Ottawa, Faculté de droit, Section droit civil (Décédée le 23 septembre 2021)

Pamela Jean Hopwood, étudiante à la maitrise, University of Waterloo

Tauhid Khan Hussain, ancien étudiant au doctorat, University of Waterloo

Alex Medley, ancien étudiant, Université d’Ottawa, Faculté de droit, Section Common Law

Sue Sherifali, ancienne étudiante au doctorat, University of Waterloo

Bureau des conseillers des employeurs de l’Ontario (BCE)

Bureau des conseillers des travailleurs de l’Ontario (BCT)

IAVGO Community Legal Clinic

Khan, T.H., MacEachen, E., Premji, S. et al. Self-employment, illness, and the social security system: a qualitative study of the experiences of solo self-employed workers in Ontario, Canada. BMC Public Health 23, 643 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15471-8

Hudon, A., MacEachen, E., Lippel, K. Framing the care of injured workers: An empirical four-jurisdictional comparison of workers’ compensation boards’ healthcare policies. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s10926-021-10021-8.

Ståhl, C., De Wispelaere, J., MacEachen, E. (2022) The work disability trap: manifestations, causes and consequences of a policy paradox. Disability and Rehabilitation

Hopwood, P., MacEachen, E., Neiterman, E., Malachowski, C., McKnight, K., Crouch, M., McDnald, E. A standpoint approach to return-to-work coordination: Understanding union roles. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 2022.

Khan, T., MacEachen, E., Dunstan, D. What social supports are available to self-employed people when ill or injured? A comparative policy analysis of Canada and Australia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022, 19(9), 5310.

MacEachen, E., Meyer, S.B., Majowicz, S., Hopwood, P., Crouch, M., Amoako, J., Jahangir, Y.T., Durant, S., Ilic, A. Perceived COVID-19 health risks faced by digital platform drivers and measures in place to protect them: a qualitative study. American Journal of Industrial Medicine (E-pub June 28, 2022).

Meyer, S.B.; Rotolo, B.; Majowicz, S.; Amoako, J.; Crouch, M.; Hopwood, P.; Jahangir, Y.T.; MacEachen, E. (SRA), Perceptions of COVID-19 related risks by platform-based couriers: An analysis of user comment threads on Reddit. WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, 2022.

Hopwood, P., MacEachen, E. (SRA), Majowicz, S., Meyer, S., Amoako, J. “We need to talk to each other”: Crossing traditional boundaries between public health and occupational health to address COVID-19. Frontiers in Public Health, 2022

Ellen MacEachen, Sonja Senthanar & Katherine Lippel, (2021)« L'indemnisation des travailleurs précaires en Ontario : résistance des employeurs et droit de parole limité pour les victimes de lésions professionnelles», Revue Pistes

MacEachen, E., Senthanar, S., Lippel, K. Workers’ compensation claims for precariously employed workers in Ontario: employer resistance and workers’ limited voice. PISTES, 2021, 23(1), 1-17.

Sears. J.M., Edmonds, A.T., MacEachen, E., Fulton-Kehoe, D. Workplace improvements to support safe and sustained return to work: suggestions from a survey of workers with permanent impairments. American Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 64 (9), 731-743.

Sears. J., Edmonds, A., MacEachen, E., Fulton-Kehoe, D. Appraisal of Washington State workers’ compensation-based return-to-work programs and suggested system improvements: A survey of workers with permanent impairments. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2021, 64 (11), 924-940.

Cote, D., Durand, S., MacEachen, E., Majowicz, S., Meyer, S., Huynh, A., Laberge, M. Dube, J. A rapid scoping review of COVID-19 and vulnerable workers: intersecting occupational and public health issues. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2021, 64, 551-566.

Dol, M., Varatharajan, S., Neiterman, E., McKnight, E., Crouch, M., McDonald, E., Malacowski, C., Dali, N., Giau, E., MacEachen, E. Systematic review of the impact on return to work of return-to-work coordinators. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 2021, 31 (4), 675-698.

Stahl, C., Karlsson, E.A., Sandqvist, J., Hensing, G., Brouwer, S., Friberg, E., MacEachen, E.. Social insurance literacy: A scoping review on how to define and measure it. Disability and Rehabilitation, 2021, 43(12), 1776-1785.

Khan. T., MacEachen, E., Hopwood, P., Goyal, J. Self-employment, work and health: a critical narrative review. Work, 2021, 70, 945-957.

Berger, I., Beck, L., Jones, J., MacEachen, E., Kirsh, B. Exploring the needs of cancer survivors when returning to or staying in the workforce. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 2020, 30(3):480-495.

Lippel, K., MacEachen, E. & Senthanar, S. (2020) Workers' compensation in Canada: experiences of precariously employed workers in the return to work process after injury. In Prue Vines & Arno Akkermans (Eds), Unexpected Consequences of Compensation Law, Hart Publishing, 79-99.

Sonja Senthanar, Ellen MacEachen & Katherine Lippel, «Return to work and ripple effects on family for precariously employed injured workers», Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation 30 (4), 72–83 (2020)

Anne Hudon, Katherine Lippel, & Ellen MacEachen, «Mapping first-line healthcare providers’ roles, practices and impacts on care for workers with compensable musculoskeletal disorders in four jurisdictions: a critical interpretive synthesis», (2019) 62(7) American Journal of Industrial Medicine, DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22972, published online May 9th 2019.

9-12 November 2022     MacEachen, E. and (in alphabetical order); de Rijk, A., Dyreborg, J., Fassier, J.B., Fletcher, M., Hopwood, P., Koivusalo, M., Majowicz, S., Meyer, S., Ståhl, C., Welti, F. Insights during the COVID-19 pandemic about how laws, policies and collective agreements protect employment and occupational health of low-wage and digital platform workers. European Public Health Conference, Berlin.

April 29, 2022    MacEachen, E. Understanding mental health and opioids during return to work. Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers Mayday, Mayday Workplace Mental Health Series 2022, Toronto.

May 20, 2022     MacEachen, E. Return-to-work coordinators: the promise and the challenges. Linkoping University Seminar, Linkoping, Sweden.

6-10 February, 2022        * Hudon, A., MacEachen, E., Lippel, K. A four-jurisdiction qualitative analysis of workers’ compensation healthcare policies. 33rd International Congress on Occupational Health, Melbourne, Australia.

6-10 February 2022.       *  Khan, T., MacEachen, E. A furnished house without walls: Examining the work and health support systems of self-employed workers in Ontario, Canada. 33rd International Congress on Occupational Health. Melbourne, Australia.

1-3 June 2021    * Hopwood, P., MacEachen, E., Neiterman, E., McKnight, E., Crouch, M., (June 1, 2021). Return to work for ill and injured workers: coordinator perspectives of union involvement. Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies. Congress 2021 Conference, London, Ontario.

1-3 June 2021    *  Varatharajan, S., MacEachen, E. Health privacy for injured workers: a critical realist grounded perspective of the experiences of return-to-work. Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies, Congress 2021 Conference, London, Ontario.

May 27-June 4 2021        *  Khan, T., MacEachen, E. Dunstan, D. Self-employment and social supports in Canada and Australia: A comparative policy analysis. Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies Conference, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.

21-23 June 2021              * Varatharajan, S., MacEachen, E. Critical realist grounded theory: analysing health privacy during return-to-work management in Canada using the retroduction framework. 37th Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference, London, Ontario.

20-23 September, 2021 MacEachen, E. Return-to-work policy across social security systems: where have we arrived 30 years after the introduction of activation policies? XXII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, Toronto, Canada.

20-23 September, 2021 MacEachen, E., Senthanar, S., Lippel, K. Developing workers’ compensation policy for all workers: gaps facing the precariously employed in Ontario. XXII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, Toronto, Canada.

23 September, 2021       * Hudon, A., MacEachen, E., Lippel, K. Rehabilitation care for injured workers: highlighting how policies frame professional practices in four jurisdictions. European Forum on Rehabilitation Research, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

September 29, 2021        MacEachen, E., Neiterman, E., McKnight, E., Malachowski, C., Crouch, M. RTW Coordination: Insights for mental health and challenges for RTW process and injured workers. Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups Webinar. Thunder Bay, Ontario.

MacEachen, E., RTW and mental health: Canadian RTW Coordinator’s accounts of challenges and practical strategies, Webinar presented as part of a Webinar Series organized by the RTWPP project team, August 27 2020.  

Ellen MacEachen, « "Je pourrais facilement être remplacée" : Comment la précarité d’emploi façonne les conditions de retour au travail en Ontario », XXième Journée en droit social et du travail, UQAM, Montréal, le 15 mars 2019.

Ellen MacEachen, “Precarious employment and return to work after work injury: An Ontario Portrait” at the Symposium on Return to Work in a Changing World of Work, University of Ottawa, May 16 2019.

Sonja Senthanar, “Family impacts relating to injured workers who attempt to return to work after a work injury” at the Symposium on Return to Work in a Changing World of Work, University of Ottawa, May 16 2019.

Maryth Yachnin, IAVGO community legal clinic, Toronto, Margaret Keys, Office of the Worker Advisor of Ontario – OWA, Michael Zacks, Office of the Employer Advisor of Ontario – OEA, “Feedback from the partners on the Ontario and Quebec research” at the Symposium on Return to Work in a Changing World of Work, University of Ottawa, May 16 2019.