Peter Smith is the President and Senior Scientist at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto. He is also a professor (status only) in the department of epidemiology and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. His major research interests include the examination of how working conditions, in particular the psychosocial work environment, impact health; methods to integrate concepts of gender and sex into secondary data analyses; and understanding how changes in nature and availability of work in the Canadian market impact approaches to the primary and secondary prevention of work-related injury and illness. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in the area of work and health and is currently the Deputy Editor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, part of the BMJ group, and one of the most respected occupational health journals internationally.
