Rachelle Ashcroft, MSW, PhD
University of Toronto (Ontario)
Alumni - 2010
Rachelle Ashcroft is an Associate Professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto, and cross-appointed to the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. As the Chair of the InterFaculty Curriculum Committee (IFCC), Dr. Ashcroft provides leadership for the development, implementation, and evaluation of the Interprofessional Education (IPE) curriculum at the University of Toronto. She received her BSW and MSW from the University of Manitoba, and her PhD in Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University. Following completion of a PhD, Dr. Ashcroft completed the Social Aetiology of Mental Illness training program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and was a TUTOR-PHC trainee in the 2010-2011 cohort. She is a health systems researcher with focus on strengthening organization and policy contexts for interprofessional primary health care, as well as collaborative mental health care. Dr. Ashcroft is a core-funded investigator of INSPIRE-PHC.
