The School of Public Health and Health Systems is a division of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
Samantha Meyer
Associate Professor
Research interests: trust and risk in medical decision making; access to and uptake of preventative services in Canada and Australia (specifically vaccination and cancer screening); access to and social determinants of bariatric surgery; food regulation and policy; and trust in food.
Plinio Morita
Assistant Professor
Research interests: mHealth and wearable technology design, ubiquitous sensors for smart homes, usage data and health data analytics, technology for aging.
Chris Perlman
Associate Professor
Research interests: health services research, evaluation, performance measurement, health information systems, decision support, knowledge translation, mental healthcare, long term care
Paul Stolee
Professor
Research interests: Geriatrics, health care systems, rehabilitation, patient and citizen engagement, health information systems and databases, health outcome measurement, and knowledge translation