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Doug Angus
University of Ottawa
Doug Angus is a Health Economist and Full Professor in the School of Management, University of Ottawa. He also is the Director of the PhD Program in Population Health. Professor Angus has research activities at the international, national, provincial, and regional levels, particularly in the areas of health care reform, strategic management, health economics (cost analysis and economic evaluation of health programs), and health policy.
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Angèle Bilodeau
Université de Montréal
Short biography forthcoming.
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Ivy L. Bourgeault
University of Ottawa
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, PhD, is a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa. She is also the Associate Director of the Community Health Research Unit, one of eight system linked research units funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care. Dr. Bourgeault has garnered an international reputation for her research on health professions, health policy and women's health.
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Astrid Brousselle
Université de Montréal
Astrid Brousselle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Université de Sherbrooke and researcher at the Charles LeMoyne hospital research Center. She is the holder of a Canada Research Chair in Evaluation and Health system improvement- EASY (CIHR-FRQS). Dr. Brousselle contributes to the development of innovative evaluation approaches. Her objective is to use evaluation as a lever for health system improvement. She applies novative methods to various areas of research in public health and health system organization.
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Marni Brownell
University of Manitoba
Marni Brownell is a Senior Research Scientist with the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) and Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba. Dr. Brownell uses administrative health and social service databases to examine child health and well-being, with a particular focus on the social determinants of health.
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Malcolm Doupe
University of Manitoba
Malcolm Doupe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, and a Senior Research Scientist with the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Dr. Doupe conducts research in the area of health services utilization and the aging population, investigating risk factors of home care and nursing home use, factors that influence quality care and changes in functional status in nursing homes, and issues related to care continuity for older adults
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Jim Dunn
McMaster University
Jim Dunn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University and a Scientist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health (CRICH) at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto. His research program focuses on questions regarding the social determinants of health and the influence of economic and social policies and programs on inequalities in health and child development, with a focus on urban housing and neighbourhoods.
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Jim Frankish
University of British Columbia
Dr. Jim Frankish is chair of the Impact on Communities Coalition, a senior scholar at the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and professor and director at the Centre for Population Health Promotion Research, College for Interdisciplinary Studies, and School of Population and Public Health, UBC.
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Randy Fransoo
University of Manitoba
Randy received his PhD from the University of Manitoba in October 2007. His main research interests are in population health and health service use, child health and development, and epidemiology of heart health and cardiac care.
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Jacqueline Gahagan
Dalhousie University
Jacqueline Gahagan PhD is Professor of Health Promotion at Dalhousie University where she teaches graduate courses in measurement and evaluation and women's health. Her program of research focuses primarily on HIV/HCV/STI, gender and health promotion, health policy, program evaluation and research ethics.
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Sylvie Gendron
Université de Montréal
Sylvie Gendron holds a PhD in Public Health and is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Montreal. Her teaching focuses on the development of nursing practice in health promotion; study of phenomena in their complexity, according to a systemic approach and developing skills in qualitative research and partnership focused on practice. Her research focuses on the evaluation of a Quebec program for assistance to young parents, and the practice of frontline health promotion interventions with vulnerable populations.
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Dionne Gesink
University of Toronto.
Biography forthcoming.
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Michelle Giroux
University of Ottawa
Michelle Giroux, LL.L. (Ottawa), M.A. Medical Law and Ethics (London, UK) is Full Professor at the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section, at the University of Ottawa and Member of the Québec Bar. She teaches family law and Bioethics. She also collaborates in the multidisciplinary PhD Program in Population Health at the University of Ottawa.
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Lois Jackson
Dalhousie University
Lois Jackson is currently the Acting Scientific Director of the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre, and a Professor of Health Promotion (Dalhousie University). She holds appointments in the Women and Gender Studies programme, International Development Programme, and the School of Nursing (Dalhousie University). She is also a Scientist with the IWK Health Centre (Halifax, Nova Scotia). For over 15 years, Dr. Jackson has engaged in collaborative, participatory research. Her work focuses on addressing the multiple and complex forms of social, economic and political exclusion that impact the health of marginalized groups, including injection drug users and women involved in the sex industry.
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Alan Katz
University of Manitoba
Alan Katz is also an Associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine, where he serves as the Director of Research. His research interests are focused on Primary Care delivery, including quality of care indicators, knowledge translation and disease prevention.
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Sara Kirk
Dalhousie University
Sara Kirk holds a Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research at the School of Health Administration, with cross-appointments In the School of Health and Human Performance and the IWK Health Centre. Her research program uses a social-ecological approach to understand lifestyle factors influencing health status and health services utilization, particulary in relation to excessive weight gain.
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Ronald Labonte
University of Ottawa
Ronald Labonte is Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Ottawa, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan. For the past decade, Ron's work has focused on the health equity impacts of contemporary globalization.
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Renee Lyons
University of Toronto
Short biography forthcoming.
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Douglas Manuel
University of Ottawa
Short biography forthcoming.
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Patricia Martens
University of British Columbia
Dr. Patricia Martens is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba, and the Director of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, an internationally-acclaimed research centre for population health, through the use of population-based health and social services administrative databases.
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Debbie Martin
Dalhousie University
Dr. Martin's research and teaching efforts focus on issues related to Aboriginal peoples' health. Debbie is of mixed Inuit-European descent and a member of NunatuKavut (south-eastern Labrador Inuit). She holds deep regard for diverse Indigenous perspectives on health and wellbeing, and believes that much can be learned about social and environmental health inequities if Indigenous knowledge and wisdom are positioned at the forefront of knowledge generation. With this in mind, Dr. Martin's research is committed to incorporating diverse ‘ways of knowing' into her research practice through various indigenous and community-based research methodologies.
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Lynn McIntyre
University of Calgary
Lynn McIntyre is currently Professor and CIHR Chair in Gender and Health in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She joined the University of Calgary in July 2006. Prior to coming to Calgary, Dr. McIntyre served three terms as Dean of the Faculty of Health Professions at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Lindsay McLaren
University of Calgary
Short biography forthcoming.
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Patricia O'Campo
University of Toronto
As a social epidemiologist, Dr. O'Campo has conducted a number of longitudinal and cross-sectional studies in the areas of the social determinants of adult mental health, intimate partner violence, children's well-being (such as youth violence or school readiness and perinatal health) as well as clinic and community based evaluations of programs concerning smoking cessation, prevention of perinatal transmission of HIV, prevention of infant mortality and homelessness.
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Louise Potvin
Université de Montréal
Louise Potvin is interested in the evaluation of health promotion interventions; more specifically inter-sectoral interventions to reduce social health inequality. She is also interested in the development of evaluation as a specific research practice.
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Chris Richardson
University of British Columbia
Dr. Richardson's recent research activities include using structural equation modeling (e.g., latent growth trajectories) to examine emerging patterns of tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use in adolescents. He is also interested in assessing quality of life from psychometric and econometric perspectives and investigating patient risk perception and risk taking within the context of chronic disease management.
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Valéry Ridde
Université de Montréal
Short biography forthcoming.
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Melanie Rock
University of Calgary
Melanie joined the University of Calgary faculty in 2003, following doctoral studies in medical anthropology (at McGill University) and postdoctoral studies focused on health promotion in the context of social inequalities (at the Université de Montréal). Her primary appointment is with the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Ecosystem and Public Health in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Additional affiliations include the Faculty of Social Work and the Department of Anthropology. Her research program brings together critical theory, human-animal studies, and public health.
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Click here for Melanie's recent presentation to the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research at the University of Toronto.
Click here for Melanie's recent interview on the effects of pet ownership on population health.
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Jason Scott Robert
Arizona State University
Jason Scott Robert is the Franca Oreffice Dean's Distinguished Professor in the Life Sciences and the Lincoln Professor of Ethics in Biotechnology and Medicine at Arizona State University, where he also directs the Bioscience Ethics, Policy, and Law Program. Dr Robert works at the intersection of bioethics and the philosophy of science, with a special interest in population and public health research, practice, and policy.
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Jean Shoveller
University of British Columbia
Professor Shoveller holds the CIHR/PHAC Applied Public Health Chair in Improving Youth Sexual Health in the School of Population & Public Health at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She also holds a Senior Scholar Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree and her master of arts degree, both with a specialty in health education, from Dalhousie University. Prof. Shoveller obtained a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at University of British Columbia in 1997, and completed postdoctoral training at the BC Research Institute for Children's and Women's Health. She assumed her current faculty position in 1999.
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Dawn Smith
University of Ottawa
Dr. Smith's research and activities are based on critical socio-ecological theory, and use strengths-based stakeholder engagement and intervention science to better understand and take action to promote socially just systems, policies, programs and relationships.
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Sanjeev Sridharan
University of Toronto
Sanjeev Sridharan is an Associate Professor, Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He is extremely interested in teaching at both the post-graduate and graduate levels in evaluation, public health, and methodology.
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Kathi Wilson
University of Toronto
Kathi Wilson's research focuses on understanding the links between health and place. She is particularly interested in examining inequalities in health and access to health care as they pertain to Aboriginal populations and recent immigrants with a specific focus on neighbourhoods.
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