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
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
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
- 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
- Drones for health
Treena Orchard
- Sexuality and sex work
- Gender construction and performance
- 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
Carla Filomena Silva
- Capabilities approach as a tool for exploring social justice
- Disability sport
- Qualitative methods
- Social cultural exploration of different bodies
- Philosophy and disablement
- Intellectual empathy and health studies
Maxwell Smith
- Values in health policy/public health policy
- Justice and health
- Ethics and health
- Infectious disease policy and ethics
- Cross-sectoral/intersectoral systems thinking for health
- Qualitative health research
- Empirical ethics methodology
Marnie Wedlake
- Mental Health and Wellness
- Resilience and the Creation of Wellbeing
- Post-traumatic Stress Injury and Trauma-informed Practice
- The Relationship Between Emotional Wellbeing and Academic Success in Undergraduate Students
- Relationships Between the Media and Mental Health Systems
- Arts and Humanities in Health Care
Aleksandra Zecevic
- Aging and health
- Gerontology
- Falls and injury prevention in the elderly (systems approach)
- Safety culture in health care
- Dementia, stroke, osteoporosis, arthritis
- Biomechanics (gait, balance, mobility)
- Age Friendly Cities
- Gerontological education
