Dr. McKinley is a medical anthropologist who specializes in the social determinants of adolescent mental health and suicide prevention in Ontario, Canada. Dr. McKinley is an Assistant Professor in the Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health where he teaches Social and Cultural Determinants of Health and Sustaining Environmental Health. Dr. McKinley utilizes narrative, ethnographic, and archival research methodologies while working in his research. His current research focuses on integrating social prescription programming into substance misuse prevention programs. He is also heading a team of researchers at Western University which is exploring the relationship between non-suicidal self-injury behaviours and social media use. He is an active member of the Indigenous Youth Futures Partnership Program in partnership with the Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority. Dr. McKinley is a member of the Walpole Island First Nation/Western University Ecosystem Health Research Team which is studying the long-term health effects of environmental stress on the community. Dr. McKinley is a Scholar-Mentor in the University of Michigan’s Integrative Well-Being and Inequality Program.