Over the past decade, Dr. Ouellette-Kuntz has directed a national study of the epidemiology of autism and created the National Epidemiologic Database for the Study of Autism in Canada. As director of the Southeastern Ontario Community-University Research Alliance in Intellectual Disabilities and principal investigator of the Multidimensional Assessment of Providers and Systems Research Program, she directs an extensive research partnership focusing on the impact of social inclusion policy across a service system. Since 2011, Dr. Ouellette-Kuntz has led a study that uses administrative health data to examine disparities in health and healthcare access experienced by adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Ontario.
Since 2008, Dr. Ouellette-Kuntz has served as secretary for the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and is an active member of its Physical Health Special Interest Research Group.
Research Interests
Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, family members, service providers, and policy makers, and has included analysis of administrative datasets in British Columbia, Manitoba, and Ontario