Chronic disease prevention and management researchers

Research and teaching interests: digital health communication and social media in public health; health promotion strategies; digital food environments and public health nutrition; media literacy and consumption of health information

Research interests: Artificial intelligence (AI) for public and population health; real world evidence; health data quality and analytics; generative AI and synthetic data; AI for learning health systems; evaluation of GenAI in health; Ai in drug discovery

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Research interests: epidemiology of child psychopathology, measurement of child psychopathology and quality of life, determinants and mechanisms of child multimorbidity, mental health service use

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Research interests: social neuroscience of primary prevention; health neuroscience; lifestyle behaviours and brain health; behaviour change

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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

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Research interests: Indigenous wellness, research philosophies, methodologies, ethics, health training and mentorship, Indigenous women’s health

Research interests: dietary assessment, measurement error, equity, household food security, environmental sustainability, food and nutrition policy, dietary guidance, systems thinking

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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

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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

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Research interests: Broad focus on policy and program evaluation and implementation, with a view to the organizational, social and policy determinants of work and health

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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.

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Research interests: neurobiological embedding of adversity (e.g., poor nutrition, psychosocial stress); biological characteristics that influence outcome from brain injury

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

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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

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Research interests: health data science and analytics, unsupervised learning and knowledge discovery, digital health, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury and chronic pain, translational research, open science, data sharing and reproducibility

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Research interests: aging, Alzheimer’s disease, chronic diseases, cognitive reserve, dementia, epidemiology, healthy aging, multimorbidity

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Research interests: implementation science, health evaluation, population health, health promotion, youth health

Sole-Supervisory Privilege Status 1 (SSPS 1)