The School of Public Health and Health Systems is a division of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
Kelly Anthony
Lecturer
Research interests: 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
Associate Professor
Research interests: 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
Associate Professor
Research interests: interventions in occupational health; evaluation and measurement of health and safety management systems; risk assessment and standard setting in occupational health
Zahid A. Butt
Assistant Professor
Research interests: syndemics of infectious diseases, determinants of syndemics, methods for big data analysis, global health, spatial epidemiologic methods, development of a syndemic framework for non-communicable diseases and cancers
Ashok Chaurasia
Assistant Professor
Research interests: incomplete/missing data, model selection , longitudinal models, computational statistics, signal saturation rate
Helen Chen
Professor of Practice; Associate Director, Professional Practice Centre for Health Systems
Research interests: 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
Associate Professor
Research interests: the social demography and health of Aboriginal peoples; social inequality, the welfare state, and the life course; population ageing and retirement
Warren Dodd
Assistant Professor
Research interests: migration, food security, poverty, climate change, healthcare and social service access.
Joel Dubin
Associate Professor
Research interests: longitudinal data methodology and analysis, survival methodology and analysis, graphical methods, prediction models. Application areas include nephrology, cancer, smoking cessation, aging, and the environment.
Mark Ferro
Associate Professor
Research interests: epidemiology of child psychopathology, measurement of child psychopathology and quality of life, determinants and mechanisms of child multimorbidity, mental health service use
John Garcia
Professor of Practice; Associate Director, Graduate Professional Programs
Research interests: 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
Peter Hall
Professor
Research interests: social neuroscience of primary prevention; health neuroscience; lifestyle behaviours and brain health; behaviour change; brain health over the lifespan; social neurobiology of food cravings and consumption; obesity.
David Hammond
Professor
Research interests: population health, health behaviour, health policy, tobacco, smoking, health communication, media, nutrition, diet, public health, e-cigarettes, nicotine, caffeine, energy drinks, global health, international health, cannabis and harm reduction
Rhona Hanning
Professor
Research interests: human nutrition and chronic disease, evidence-based practice, body composition.
George A. Heckman
Associate Professor
Research interests: chronic disease management in frail seniors - focus on cardiovascular disease and long term care.
John Hirdes
Professor
Research interests: community and public health, health information systems, health policies, caregiving, aging, home care, mental health, long-term care, palliative care, quality of life, pharmacoepidemiology, knowledge translation.
Sue Horton
Professor
Research interests: economics of public health, economics of nutrition, development economics, poverty
Narveen Jandu
Assistant Professor
Research interests: molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis of communicable bacterial infectious diseases, public health prevention of infectious diseases through immunizations, appropriate health and hygiene practices, harm reduction programs
Craig R. Janes
Professor; Director, School of Public Health and Health Systems
Dr. Janes is a medical anthropologist interested in and committed to social science approaches to public health and global health policy. Janes has research strengths in human-environment interactions, social inequities and health, global health governance, and maternal and child health.
Sharon Kirkpatrick
Associate Professor
Research interests: dietary assessment, measurement error in diet, food access and food security among marginalized populations, food environments, food and nutrition policy, dietary guidance
Brian Laird
Associate Professor; Associate Dean, Graduate Studies
Research interests: contaminants; risk assessment; risk communication; hazard; environmental health; exposure; country food; aboriginal; First Nations; Inuit; mercury; arsenic; selenium; diet; mixtures; nutrient-toxicant interaction; toxicology; soil; bioaccessibility; bioavailability; contaminated sites; Dehcho region
Jane Law
Associate Professor
Research interests: 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
Professor; University Research Chair
Research interests: 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
Lili Liu
Dean of Applied Health Sciences; Professor
Research interests: aging and dementia, caregiving for persons living with dementia, health technologies, mixed methods research approaches
Ellen MacEachen
Associate Professor; Associate Director, Graduate Research Programs
Research interests: Broad focus on policy and program evaluation and implementation, with a view to the organisational, social and policy determinants of work and health