The School of Public Health Sciences is a division of the Faculty of Health
Warren Dodd
Assistant Professor
Research interests: migration, food security, poverty, climate change, healthcare and social service access.
Rhona Hanning
Professor
Research interests: human nutrition and chronic disease, evidence-based practice, body composition.
Craig R. Janes
Professor; Director, School of Public Health Sciences
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, equity, household food security, environmental sustainability, food and nutrition policy, dietary guidance, systems thinking
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
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
Shannon E. Majowicz
Associate Professor
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
John G. Mielke
Associate Professor
Research interests: neurobiological embedding of adversity (e.g., poor nutrition, psychosocial stress), biological characteristics that influence outcome from brain injury
Plinio Morita
Associate Professor
Research interests: mHealth and wearable technology design, ubiquitous sensors for smart homes, usage data and health data analytics, technology for aging.
Hannah Neufeld
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Indigenous health, global health, health inequalities, Indigenous food systems, maternal nutrition and child feeding, maternal and child health, community health
Kelly Skinner
Associate Professor
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.
Geoff Bardwell
Assistant Professor
Contact information
Office: LHN 3707
Email: gbardwell@uwaterloo.ca
Twitter: @geoffbardwell
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