Position: Professor
Affiliation: York University
Email: sgaetz@edu.yorku.ca
Dr. Stephen Gaetz is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University, in Toronto, Canada. He is the President of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and the Homeless Hub at York University as well as co-Director of Making the Shift – Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab and the Toronto Centre of Excellence on Youth Homelessness Prevention. Dr. Gaetz works in collaboration with partners to conduct research and mobilize this knowledge so as to have a greater impact on solutions to homelessness, and in particular the prevention of homelessness. In 2017, Dr. Gaetz was awarded the Member of the Order of Canada.