Dr. Christine Sheppard is a credentialed evaluator and post-doctoral fellow at St. John’s Rehab Research Program at Sunnybrook Research Institute. She completed her MSW specializing in Gerontology at the University of Toronto before moving to the University of Waterloo to complete her PhD in Health and Gerontology, with a focus in aging and the life-course. Christine’s research focuses on enhancing health and wellbeing of community-dwelling seniors, and she works collaboratively across sectors to develop and evaluate evidence-based programs and policies to foster healthy aging. Her work in program development and evaluation has been recognized by the Canadian Association on Gerontology and the Canadian Evaluation Society. Currently, Christine is serving as an embedded research unit at the City of Toronto to support the development, implementation and evaluation of a new housing services model for low-income seniors living in Toronto Community Housing.