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: 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

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Research interests: Critical perspectives on substance use and addictions; drug policy; harm reduction; opioid agonist therapies; substance use in small urban, rural, remote, and Indigenous communities; gender and substance use; housing and homelessness

Sole-Supervisory Privilege Status 2 (SSPS 2)

Research interests: interventions in occupational health; evaluation and measurement of health and safety management systems; risk assessment and standard setting in occupational health

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Research interests: incomplete/missing data, model selection, longitudinal models, computational statistics, signal saturation rate

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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

Sole-Supervisory Privilege Status 2 (SSPS 2)

Research interests: the social demography and health of Aboriginal peoples; social inequality, the welfare state, and the life course; population ageing and retirement

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

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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.

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: 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

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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

Sole-Supervisory Privilege Status 2 (SSPS 2)

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

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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

Sole-Supervisory Privilege Status 2 (SSPS 2)

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: aging and dementia, caregiving for persons living with dementia, health technologies, mixed methods research approaches 

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Research interests: Aging and mental health; psychiatric epidemiology; electronic health records

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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: infectious diseases, particularly foodborne, waterborne and enteric diseases; surveillance and burden of illness methods; survey research methods; epidemiology and epidemiologic methods; public health practice; systems approaches to food-related health outcomes; knowledge synthesis methods; knowledge brokering

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Research interests: dementia care, culture change, long-term care, retirement living

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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: health human resources, work-life balance, retention of midwives in Canada, women’s experiences of pregnancy, international students in Canada, and technology use in academic classrooms

Sole-Supervisory Privilege Status 1 (SSPS 1)

Research interests: Indigenous health, global health, health inequalities, Indigenous food systems, maternal nutrition and child feeding, maternal and child health, community health

Sole-Supervisory Privilege Status 2 (SSPS 2)

Research interests: Equitable healthcare access; tuberculosis/HIV healthcare delivery and quality of care; healthcare delivery and recovery from COVID-19; issues in global health

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Research interests: epidemiology, population and public health, chronic diseases, aging, cognition, major neurocognitive disorder, social determinants of health, systematic reviews, health-related quality-of-life

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Research interests: health services research, evaluation, performance measurement, health information systems, decision support, knowledge translation, mental healthcare, long term care

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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: human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work

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Research interests: cellular and molecular biology of the inner ear, age-related hearing loss and prevention, neuroprotection, biocomplexity, systems approaches to studying health and disease

Sole-Supervisory Privilege Status 1 (SSPS 1)

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

Sole-Supervisory Privilege Status 1 (SSPS 1)