[3] In Algoma, he also helped to create a community psychiatric program to provide support for adults with mental illness in their own homes to prevent what he called "the revolving door syndrome" where people coping with chronic mental illness would repeatedly find themselves in hospital.
[6] Previously, he taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and was involved as a researcher in public health issues.
[citation needed] The chief public health officer was the head of PHAC until the 2014 omnibus budget bill, in which the government of Stephen Harper decided to reorganize the management structure of PHAC to institute a parallel presidential structure to govern the organization that then could be staffed by non-medical and non-scientific personnel.
[8] After a stroke in 2012, Butler-Jones stepped down as chief public health officer in June 2013 to focus on rehabilitation.
He has also been recognized by the College of Family Physicians and Scotiabank Family Medicine Lectureship and received the Medal of Service from the Canadian Medical Association for "his outstanding and exceptional contribution to health care in Canada" as well as the President's Award of the Public Health Physicians of Canada.