Dr. Andrea Rishworth

Andrea Rishworth

LTA
Geography, Geomatics and Environment

Andrea Rishworth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her work centers on the social, structural and ecological production of health and wellbeing and the uneven impacts for people and places.

She is particularly interested in examining how changing local and global health realities, policies and competing socio-ecological agendas shape disparate health outcomes for individuals and societies. Andrea roots her practice in social theory, mixed methods approaches and community partnerships. She actively collaborates with researchers, policy makers and community groups in Canada, the United States, Uganda and Ghana to support health equity with the ultimate goal of improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and places by identifying equitable, community-based solutions. Andrea also teaches courses in health geography, development and health in Sub-Saharan Africa, the geography of Canada and social research methods. 

Research interests

  • Health (in)equity 
  • Global health
  • Gender and health 
  • Political ecologies of health 
  • Care and responsibilization 
  • Migration and health
  • Opioid (mis)use 

Teaching interests 

  • Death and disease (Health geography)
  • (Under)development and health in Sub-Saharan Africa 
  • Global migration and health 
  • Geographies of Canada 
  • Social Research Methods in Geography
Education
PhD, University of Waterloo
MA, University of Western Ontario
BA, University of Western Ontario

Publications

(select publications)

  • Rishworth, A., King, B., & Holmes, L. M. (2024). Digital geographies of care: Telehealth landscapes of addiction treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health & Place, 89, 103296.
  • Rishworth, A., Wilson, K., Adams, M., & Galloway, T. (2024). Landscapes of inequities, structural racism, and disease during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of immigrant and racialized populations in Canada. Health & Place, 87, 103214.
  • Rishworth, A., Cao, T., Niraula, A., & Wilson, K. (2023). Navigating the quality-of-life impacts of a chronic inflammatory disease (CID) among South Asian children and parents. Social Science & Medicine, 326, 115914.
  • Rishworth, A., & Elliott, S. J. (2022). Multidimensional disparities, resisting inequities: A political ecology of aging in Uganda. Geoforum, 135, 25-36.
  • Rishworth, A., & Elliott, S. J. (2022). Walking the health geographers' talk: Aging and health inequalities in sub‐Saharan Africa. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien, 66(3), 497-511.
  • King, B., & Rishworth, A. (2022). Infectious addictions: Geographies of colliding epidemics. Progress in Human Geography, 46(1), 139-155.
  • Holmes, L. M., Rishworth, A., & King, B. H. (2022). Disparities in opioid overdose survival and naloxone administration in Pennsylvania. Drug and alcohol dependence, 238, 109555.
  • Rishworth, A., & Elliott, S. J. (2022). Walking the health geographers' talk: Aging and health inequalities in sub‐Saharan Africa. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien, 66(3), 497-511.
  • King, B., & Rishworth, A. (2022). Infectious addictions: Geographies of colliding epidemics. Progress in Human Geography, 46(1), 139-155.
  • Rishworth, A., & Elliott, S. (2022). Global Discourses and Local Disconnects: Gender, Aging, Health, and Well-Being in Uganda. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 112(6), 1519-1536.
  • Rishworth, A., & King, B. (2022). Aging,(un) certainty and HIV management in South Africa. Population, Space and Place, 28(4), e2552.
  • King, B., & Rishworth, A. (2022). HIV responsibilisation: Stigma, disclosure, and care in the age of 90‐90‐90. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47(2), 499-513.
  • Rishworth, A., & King, B. (2021). ‘There is a secret in love’: gender, care and HIV management in South Africa. Gender, Place & Culture, 28(11), 1561-1583.
  • Rishworth, A., & D’Alessandro, C. (2021). The world we want: The development we want. In Geography, Health and Sustainability (pp. 248-254). Routledge.