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Researcher Area of Focus
Kelly Anthony Attitudes regarding public policies (both US and Canadian) designed to protect disadvantaged groups; prejudice; attitudes towards, and responses to, dying and the death process; individualism and collectivism and culture.
Jose F. Arocha Health informatics and socio-cognitive studies of human-computer interaction, principles of HCI design, health education and modelling understanding of health and disease.
Philip Bigelow Interventions in occupational health; evaluation and measurement of health and safety management systems; risk assessment and standard setting in occupational health
Roy Cameron Health behaviour change, disease prevention, tobacco, population level intervention, evidence-based practice.
Sharon Campbell Cancer prevention, health policy, tobacco control.
Feng Chang Safe, effective, and efficient medication use in older people; new applications for pharmacists as a health care resource particularly in rural and smaller communities
Helen Chen Health Informatics, Translatonal Research in Healthcare and Medicine, Health System Integration, Semantic Interoperability, Healthcare Decision Making and Decision Support, Health Data Analytics, Medical Imaging Informatics, Patient Safety
Martin Cooke The social demography and health of Aboriginal peoples; Social inequality, the welfare state, and the life course; Population ageing and retirement.
Joel Dubin Longitudinal data methodology and analysis, survival methodology and analysis, graphical methods.  Application areas include nephrology, cancer, smoking cessation, aging, and the environment.
Susan J. Elliott Environment and health, medical geography, global environment, urban social geography, philosophy and method.
Nancy E. Fenton Medical geography, Emotional Geography, Risk Perception, Children and Youth, Quality of Life, Child-centred methodologies, Qualitative and Post-structural methods, Communities of Practice, Mentorship competencies
John Garcia Population-based chronic disease prevention, health of Nunavummiut, knowledge exchange, capacity building, implementation, practice-based evidence, public health policy and systems, qualitative and mixed methods, realistic evaluation
Kelly Grindrod Pharmacy practice and therapeutics, eHealth technologies
Peter Hall Health psychology, social neuroscience, health promotion, ecological factors
David Hammond Population health, tobacco control, nutrition policy, risk communication, harm reduction, global health, policy evaluation
Rhona Hanning Human nutrition and chronic disease, evidence-based practice, body composition.
George Heckman Chronic disease management in frail seniors - focus on cardiovascular disease and long term care.
Primary Panel Canadian Consensus Guidelines on Heart Failure.
Lead Geriatrician Waterloo-Wellington LHIN: developing plan to integrate seniors health services. 
John P. Hirdes Gerontology, mental health, health informatics, assessment, health policy, international comparisons, performance measurement, health care funding
Laurie Hoffman-Goetz In Public Health: health literacy, risk communication, consumer health informatics, mass media and health education

In Biohealth:  physical activity and cancer prevention, exercise immunology, behavioural immunology, lymphocyte apoptosis
Sue Horton Economics of public health, economics of nutrition, development economics, poverty
Janice Husted Prognosis of rheumatic conditions specifically psoriatic arthritis; and mental health
Linda L. Jessup Impact of normative and alternate developmental transitions and pathways on healthy lifespan development
Jane Law Health geomatics; healthy communities; disease mapping; measurement error, data uncertainty, and missing data adjustment in public health research; Bayesian spatial modelling and analysis in health research; determinants of health outcomes; health and crime; diet and health outcomes.
Scott Leatherdale Health Behaviour Surveillance (Physical Activity, Obesity, Alcohol and Drug Use, Tobacco Use, Eating Behaviour, Sedentary Behaviour) ; Built Environment and Behaviour; Impact of Policies / Programs on Behaviour; Co-Morbid Health Behaviours; Internet Gambling and Problem Gambling; Knowledge Translation and Exchange Systems; Cancer Epidemiology; Social Epidemiology
Shannon E. Majowicz Infectious diseases, particularly foodborne and enteric diseases, surveillance and burden of illness methods, epidemiology and epidemiologic methods, public health practice, systems approaches to food-related health outcomes, knowledge synthesis methods, knowledge brokering
Steve Manske Content: tobacco control, physical activity, healthy eating; Settings: schools, community, health systems; Topics: knowledge synthesis (best practices), knowledge exchange (e.g., knowledge brokers, communities of practice), evaluation & planning systems. For more details, visit my research page.
Colleen Maxwell Pharmacoepidemiology, Aging, Dementia, Depression, Frailty, Assisted Living
Stephen McColl Environmental health, occupational health, risk assessment and management, health policy.
Paul McDonald My research informs the development and implementation of public health policies, communication campaigns, and programs, especially those related to the prevention of chronic diseases and reducing health inequalities. My most recent work has focused on building capacity in public health research, using “systems thinking” to improve the impact of population health interventions and health care systems, reducing health inequalities, and ways to improve health warnings on tobacco products. 
Ian McKillop Design and use of health information systems; costing and performance measurement of health services; data standards, security and privacy of health information.
John Mielke

Neurobiological embedding of adversity (e.g., poor nutrition, psychosocial stress)

Neuroplasticity during learning and following injury (e.g., ischaemia)
Anita Myers Health program evaluation,  gerontology. Current projects include: evaluating licensing policies and procedures, assessing medically at risk drivers, and examining naturalistic driving behavior (using in-vehicle devices and GPS) in healthy drivers and those with neurological disorders (such as Parkinson's).
Carlos Rojas-Fernandez Geriatric pharmacotherapy, appropriate medication use, psychopharmacology, falls medication adherence, pain management, long term care setting, dementia, depression.
Barb Riley Politics of prevention, dissemination, public health system, chronic disease and prevention, knowledge translation, research-policy interface, population interventions.
Paul Stolee Geriatric health services, rehabilitation, long-term care, home care, health information systems and databases, health outcome measurement, optometric practice, and the integration and use of knowledge and information in practice. Current major research focus on better use of information systems in the rehabilitation of older persons.
Suzanne Tyas Epidemiology of aging and epidemiologic methods. More specifically, the spectrum of cognition in aging, encompassing cognitive impairment, cognitive reserve and healthy aging.
Patricia Wainwright Brain and behavioural development (drugs and nutrition).
Glenn Ward Development of the adrenal response to stressors, prenatal and neonatal nutrition, neurobehavioural toxicology and teratology, neurobehavioural genetics.