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Faculty Members

Faculty members in the School of Health Studies are engaged in impactful research across a number of health-related areas. Click on a faculty member's name to view their full profile and learn more about their research.

Research Supervisors and Interests

Dominic A. Alaazi

Population aging
Long-term care
Immigrant health
Environmental health promotion
Health disparities

Anushka Ataullahjan

Sexual and reproductive health; Family Planning
Inequity, Social Exclusion, and Marginalization
Humanitarian Crisis
Qualitative Methods; Ethnographic approaches
Global Health (Geographic focus on Pakistan)

Shauna Burke

Infant, child, and youth health
Childhood obesity
Measurement and promotion of physical activity in children and adults
Breastfeeding and infant feeding practices
Health promotion
Group dynamics

Obidimma Ezezika

Implementation Science
Global Health Innovation
African Development
Food Security & Nutrition
Experiential Education

Rachel Forrester-Jones

Life course of people living with intellectual disabilities and people living with mental health issues
Social inclusion of vulnerable adults through social support networks
Research ethics
Social protection
Legal interventions to support vulnerable citizens and communities.
Contemporary social issues in the Middle East and North Africa

Lesley Gittings

HIV & sexual and reproductive health
Adolescence
Gender
Eastern and Southern Africa; Canada
Climate change and health
Qualitative, arts-based, participatory, community-engaged approaches

Jennifer Irwin

Health Promotion
Motivational interviewing and coaching interventions
Promotion of movement behaviours
Kindness and resilience
Health-related behaviour change

Andrew Johnson

Neural efficiency, information processing speed
Interaction between cognition and motor function
Identification of patient values within an evidence-based practice framework
Identification of concussion, and tracking concussion symptoms

Tarun Katapally

Digital epidemiology and population health
Active living
Child and youth health
Climate change
Food security and sovereignty
Global health
Indigenous health
Infectious diseases
Mental health
Substance misuse

Ken Kirkwood

Ethics of ingestion
Moral understandings of things humans put in their bodies
Recreational and performance-enhancing drug use
Food ethics
Social class issues and disparities of health and health care provision

Anita Kothari

Supporting the use of research and knowledge in healthcare decision-making (knowledge translation)
Integrated knowledge translation or research co-production (partnered research)
The impact of research and evidence
Public health systems and services
Health equity

Tara Mantler

Intimate partner violence
Maternal and child health
Women’s health
Mental Health
Rural and Remote Health

Elysée Nouvet

Global Health and Global Health Research: Perceptions, power, ethics
Humanitarian healthcare
Social determinants, responses to, and impacts of suffering
Pain and palliative care across cultures
Best practices in research with marginalized populations
Drones for health

Treena Orchard

Gender and sex work
Digital sexuality and dating practices
The politics of health and post-colonialism
Marginalized communities
Ethnography and collaborative research
Arts-based methodologies
Creative writing and memoir

Jessica Polzer

Sociology of health and illness
Social theories of health, risk and the body
Experiences of health and risks to health
Social and ethical impacts of technologies in health
Biotechnology, gender and medicalization
Critical theories of health promotion
Foucault, biopolitics and governmentality

Marie Savundranayagam

Communication and formal and informal caregiving
Person-centered care for individuals with Alzheimer's disease or related dementia
Caregiver interventions

Jacob Shelley

Proper limits and role of law in promoting public health and preventing chronic disease
Issues that arise at the interface of law, health science, and ethics

Shannon L. Sibbald

Interdisciplinary Health and Health Systems Research
- Combining the methods and theories from a variety of disciplines to create innovative solutions to health systems challenges
Implementation Science
- Evidence-based approaches to implementing healthcare innovations
Interprofessional Teams
- How high performing health care teams work
- How current education and training can prepare students for interprofessional work
- Patient-centred models of care for chronic disease management