Our people

Karla Boluk.

Karla Boluk

Assistant Professor, Recreation and Leisure Studies

Research interests: Social impact commitments of tourism businesses

Kitty Corbett.

Kitty Corbett

Professor, Public Health Sciences

Research interests: social research methodology, emerging infectious diseases, knowledge translation, health communication, quality improvement, and health promotion

Warren Dodd

Warren Dodd

Assistant Professor, School of Public Health Sciences

Research interests: migration and health, community food security, healthcare and social service access, and climate change and health

Susan Elliott

Susan Elliott

Professor, Geography

Research interests: global environmental health, water and sanitation, allergens

Geoff Fong

Geoff Fong

Professor, Psychology

Research interests: evaluation of tobacco control policies, behavioural interventions, founder and chief principal investigator of the International Tobacco Control Policy (ITC) Evaluation Project

Karen Grepin

Karen Grépin

Associate Professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong

Research interests: priority setting in health systems, institutional factors affecting the demand and supply of health services, the politics and effectiveness of development assistance for health, evaluation of maternal and child health programs

David Hammond

David Hammond

Professor, School of Public Health Sciences, Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Public Health Agency of Canada (CIHR/PHAC) Chair in Applied Public Health

Research interests: population health, health behaviour, health policy, tobacco, smoking, health communication, nutrition, diet, caffeine, energy drinks, global health

Rhona Hanning

Rhona Hanning

Professor, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, School of Public Health Sciences

Research interests: adolescent health, human nutrition and chronic disease, evidence-based practice, body composition

John Hirdes

John Hirdes

Professor, School of Public Health Sciences

Research interests: community and public health, health information systems, health policies, mental health, quality of life, knowledge translation

Susan Horton

Susan Horton

Professor, School of Public Health Sciences, Director, Global Health and Policy Innovation Research Centre

Research interests: economics of public health, economics of nutrition, development economics, poverty

Craig Janes

Craig Janes

Professor, Director, School of Public Health Sciences

Research interests: human-environment interactions, social inequities and health, global health governance, maternal and child health

Brian Laird

Brian Laird

Assistant Professor, School of Public Health Sciences

Research interests: heavy metal contaminants, contaminated sites, risk assessment, risk communication, hazards, toxicology, environmental health, First Nations, Inuit

Jennifer Liu

Jennifer Liu

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

Research interests: global health, emerging biomedical technologies, science and health governance and ethics, transnational knowledge production

Ellen MacEachen

Ellen MacEachen

Associate Professor, School of Public Health Sciences

Research interests: policy and program evaluation and implementation, organisational, social and policy determinants of work and health

Shannon Majowicz

Shannon Majowicz

Associate Professor, School of Public Health Sciences

Research interests: foodborne, waterborne and enteric infectious diseases, public health practice, systems approaches to food-related health outcomes, knowledge synthesis methods, knowledge brokering

Plinio Morita

Plinio Morita

Assistant Professor, School of Public Health Sciences

Research interests: mobile health and wearable technology design, ubiquitous sensors for smart homes, usage data and health data analytics

Kelly Skinner

Kelly Skinner

Assistant Professor, School of Public Health Sciences

Research interests: northern food systems and environments, nutrition and food insecurity, community-based health and food initiatives, program evaluation, access to healthcare in northern communities, and knowledge uptake and utilization

Alan Whiteside

Alan Whiteside

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Chair in Global Health Policy and Professor, School of International Policy and Governance, Wilfrid Laurier University

Research interests: shifting burdens of disease, immigrant and migrant health, economic and development impacts of HIV and AIDS