| Contact Information: | katiemdp@yorku.ca |
| Current Appointment: | Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, York University |
| Degrees Completed: | Ph.D. (Health Policy and Equity; York University) M.A. (Health; York University) B.A. (Honours, Major Psychology, Minor Health Studies; Queen's University) |
Research Interests:
Her research focuses on understanding the tensions between policy and practice in the move towards integrative, person-centered mental health care. Guided by Mad activism, critical psychiatry, and the theory of institutionalism, Katie aims to expose social and structural inequities that influence access to services and supports responsive to individual mental health needs.
Katie has co-authored several research papers examining fragmented accountability in mental health governance and the challenges of implementing collaborative care models and local networks to foster service coordination and policy accountability. Her extensive experience in global mental health includes participation in a SSHRC-funded international research project investigating service user experiences with coercive practices in mental health. This project aimed to promote equity and human rights in community-based mental health care.
Honours and Awards:
2025 - 2026: SSHRC Explore Award; York University
Select Publications:
Di Pierdomenico, K. (forthcoming, under contract with Palgrave Macmillan). [Mental Health Policy Reform in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia].
Di Pierdomenico, K., Bucsea, O., Hashemi, H., Leguia, A., Lovegrove, A., Cribbie, R., & Pillai Riddell, R. (2025). Universal digital mental health interventions for children and youth: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Manuscript submitted for publication, npj Digital Medicine.
Di Pierdomenico, K., Bucsea, O., Hashemi, H., Leguia, A., Lovegrove, A., Cribbie, R., & Pillai Riddell, R. Universal digital mental health interventions for children and youth: A scoping review. Frontiers in Digital Health, 7, 1665975. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1665975
Di Pierdomenico, K., Kamau, V., Njenga, M., Morrow, M., & Warkentin, R. (2024). Mental health in Kenya: Tensions between human rights approaches and colonial care. Studies in Social Justice, 18(3), 515-532. https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v18i3.4066
Rawson, E., Zirnsak, T. M., Di Pierdomenico, K., Edan, V., & Brophy, L. (2024). Access
and Injustice: An Intersectionality-informed Analysis of Victorian Mental Health Policy in Australia. Studies in Social Justice, 18(3), 499-514. https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v18i3.4657
Wiktorowicz, M. E., Di Pierdomenico, K., Buckley, N. J., Lurie, S., & Czukar, G. (2020). Governance of mental healthcare: Fragmented accountability. Social Science & Medicine, 256: 113007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113007
Wiktorowicz, M., Abdulle, A., Di Pierdomenico, K., Boamah, S. (2019). Models of concurrent disorder service: Policy, coordination and access to care. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10: 61. February 2019. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00061 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00061/full