The School of Public Health and Health Systems is a division of the Faculty of Health
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, translational research in healthcare and medicine, health system integration, semantic interoperability, healthcare decision making and decision support, health data analytics, Machine Learning and AI in Public Health; Real World Evidence, 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.
Mark Stewart Dolson
Lecturer
Research interests: qualitative approaches to structural violence, social suffering, homelessness, and mental health in urban contexts; critical approaches to the neoliberal restructuring of workfare/welfare programs in Canada and Iceland; critical approaches to biomedicine; interface between informal, community-based models of care and care-giving and biomedical approaches
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
Peter Hall
Professor
Research interests: social neuroscience of primary prevention; health neuroscience; lifestyle behaviours and brain health; behaviour change
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 Faculty of Health; Professor
Research interests: aging and dementia, caregiving for persons living with dementia, health technologies, mixed methods research approaches
Ellen MacEachen
Professor; Acting Director, School of Public Health and Health Systems
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