Daniel Dutton

Bio

Daniel J. Dutton is an assistant professor in Community Health & Epidemiology at Dalhousie University since 2019. He joined CNODES in 2023 as the lead for the Atlantic Hub, based in Halifax. His interest in health services research comes from a background in economics prior to his PhD, and currently uses administrative data to study questions about health care system use (including drugs) as related to changes in policy.

Outside of pillar 3 research, his focus is on social epidemiology and public policy, namely, how can governments influence or mitigate the impact of social determinants of health like low income.

Most of this work is quantitative, utilizing large data sets and modeling strategies from economics and epidemiology. His primary interests are population-level exposures and their impact on poverty and health, how governments can address those exposures, and the distributional impacts of addressing those exposures. Currently that work focuses on homelessness, low income, food insecurity, and governmental policy.