Eric Latimer, PhD

Dr Latimer is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry. A health economist, his research interests have focused on community-based supports for people with severe mental illness, particularly their economic aspects. Evidence-based practices he has studied have included: Assertive Community Treatment, the Individual Placement and Support model of supported employment, Strengths Model Case Management, and Housing First. The latter is an intervention specifically for people experiencing homelessness who also have mental illness. He is currently engaged, as a co-PI, in a CIHR-funded study of high support housing for people with severe mental illness as well as several projects related to homelessness. He has served as consultant to the Québec government as well as research teams in Europe and North America.

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Selected Articles

Weight C, Mambro A, Dussault C, Chalifoux S, del Balso L, Petropoulos A, Lim M, Halavrezos A, Lebouché B, Sebastiani G, Klein MB, Cox J, Latimer E* and Kronfli N* (*: co-senior authors) (2026), A cost-effectiveness analysis of a multidisciplinary model of care on cure of hepatitis C care among people released from provincial prison in Quebec, Canada. International J of Drug Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.105136.

Luigi M, Imbeault A, Crocker AG, Latimer E (2025), “Economic data on interventions for reducing aggression and restrictive interventions in inpatient mental health: A systematic review,” Int J of Mental Health Systems, 20 (1): 2. Doi: 10.1186/s13033-025-00692-8.

Lachaud J, Nisenbaum R, Mejia-Lancheros C, Latimer E, Aubry T, Woodhall-Melnik J, Distasio J, Hinds A, Dutton D, Somers J, Moniruzzaman A, Stergiopoulos V, O'Campo P, Hwang SW (2025), “Housing and Support Intervention and Mortality Among Homeless Adults With Mental Illnesses: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial”, JAMA Network Open. 2025 Jul 1;8(7):e2524302. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.24302.

Latimer EA, Aubry T, Barrett B, Bergeron-Leclerc C, Briand C, Durbin J, Goscha R, Krupa T, Roebuck M, Vallée C, Setliff A, Yauck M (2022), “Association between fidelity to the strengths model of case management and client outcomes: A quasi-experimental study”, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 45(3): 280-290.

Groff, M, Latimer E, Joober R, Iyer SN, Schmitz N, Abadi S, Abdel-Baki A, Casacalenda N, Margolese HC, Jarvis GE, Malla A, “Economic Evaluation of Extended Early Intervention Service vs Regular Care Following 2 Years of Early Intervention: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial” (2021), Schizophrenia Bulletin, 47 (2): 465-473 (corresponding author).

Chu C*, Moodie EEM, Streiner DL, Latimer EA (2020), “Trajectories of Homeless Shelter Utilization in the At Home/Chez Soi trial of Housing First”, Psychiatric Services 71(7): 648-655.

Latimer EA, Rabouin D, Cao Z, Ly A, Powell G, Aubry T, Distasio J, Hwang SW, Somers JM, Bayoumi AM, Mitton C, Moddie EEM, Goering PN (2020), "Cost-effectiveness of Housing First with Assertive Community Treatment: Results from the Canadian At Home/Chez Soi trial", Psychiatric Services, 71(10), 1020-1030.

Latimer E, Bordeleau F, Méthot C, Barrie T, Ferkranus A, Lurie S, Whitley R (2020), “Implementation of supported employment in the context of a national Canadian program: Facilitators, barriers and strategies”, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, March, 43 (1), 2-8.

Latimer EA, Rabouin D, Cao Z, Ly A, Powell G, Adair CE, Sareen J, Stergiopoulos V, Somers JM, Moodie EEM, Pinto AD, Veldhuizen S, Goering PN (2019), “Cost-effectiveness of Housing First with Intensive Case Management for homeless people with mental illness: Results from the multi-site Canadian At Home/Chez Soi trial”, August 21, JAMA Network Open.

Latimer E, Rabouin, D, Cao Z, Ly, A, Powell, G, Aubry T, Distasio J, Hwang, SW, Somers, JM, Stergiopoulos V, Veldhuizen S, Erica E.M. Moodie, E.E.M., Lesage, A, Goering, PN (2017), “The costs of services for homeless people with mental illness in five Canadian cities : Results from a large prospective follow-up study”, CMAJ Open 5(3), E576-E585, DOI:10.9778/cmajo.20170018. 

Powell G*, Adair C, Streiner D, Mayo N, Latimer E (2017), “Changes in quality of life from a homelessness intervention: true change, response shift, or random variation”, Quality of Life Research 26: 1853 – 1864, DOI 10.1007/s11136-017-1522-8.

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