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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

Dan Belliveau

Three-dimensional representations of anatomy and their enhancement of the learning environment
The influence of competition on learning

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

Louis Charland

Mental health diagnosis
Psychopathology of affectivity
Decisional capacity
Addiction
Cross-cultural psychiatry

Jennifer Irwin

Obesity prevention and treatment
Motivational interviewing and life coaching interventions
Promotion of health-related physical activity and dietary intake behaviours
Tobacco and smoking behaviours

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

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

Marita Kloseck

Health promotion
Community capacity building
Age-friendly cities and communities
Community health, aging and optimizing seniors’ health and independence
Health and function of older individuals living in the community
Threats to independence with advancing age
Peer-led education models to improve chronic disease outcomes

Anita Kothari

Knowledge translation and exchange
Public health services

Chris Lee

Golden Section Hypothesis

Tara Mantler

Women's Health
Mental Health (PTSD, Depression, Anxiety)
Intimate Partner Violence
Antenatal Health
Rural and Remote Health
Health Promotion

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

Treena Orchard

Sexuality
Gender and Health
Community-based research with a range of different populations, including female sex workers, Aboriginal men and women, gay men and youth

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 Sibbald

Public Health, Health Promotion and Population Ethics
Interdisciplinary Research
- Combining the methods and theories from a variety of disciplines to create innovative solutions to health systems challenges
Knowledge to Action and Implementation Science
- How communities of practice share knowledge
- How knowledge flows through primary health teams
Integrated Knowledge Work
- How policy makers use evidence in decision making
- How executive leaders manage organizational knowledge