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Faculty Research

Kelly Anthony, BA, MA, PhD
Lecturer
(519) 888-4567, ext 32802
e-mail: kanthony@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Attitudes regarding public policies (both US and Canadian) designed to protect disadvantaged groups; prejudice; attitudes towards, and responses to, dying and the death process; individualism and collectivism and culture.

Jose F. Arocha, Licentiate, MA, PhD
Associate Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext 32729
e-mail: jfarocha@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Health informatics and socio-cognitive studies of human-computer interaction, principles of HCI design, health education and modelling understanding of health and disease.

Philip Bigelow, PhD
Associate Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext 38491
e-mail: pbigelow@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Interventions in occupational health; evaluation and measurement of health and safety management systems; risk assessment and standard setting in occupational health

Roy Cameron, BA, MA, PhD
Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext 32055
e-mail: cameron@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Health behaviour change, disease prevention, tobacco, population level intervention, evidence-based practice.

Propel Centre for Population Health Impact

Sharon Campbell, BN, MN, PhD
Research Associate Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext. 34583
e-mail: sharoncm@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Cancer prevention, health policy, tobacco control.

Propel Centre for Population Health Impact

Feng Chang, BScPhm, PharmD

Assistant Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext. 21321
e-mail: feng.chang@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Safe, effective, and efficient medication use in older people; new applications for pharmacists as a health care resource particularly in rural and smaller communities

Helen Chen, BA, MSc, PhD

Agfa Scientist-in-Residence, Assistant Research Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext. 32131
e-mail: helen.chen@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Health Informatics, Translatonal Research in Healthcare and Medicine, Health System Integration, Semantic Interoperability, Healthcare Decision Making and Decision Support, Health Data Analytics, Medical Imaging Informatics, Patient Safety

Martin Cooke, BA, MA, PhD
Associate Professor
Joint Appointment with the Department of Sociology
(519) 888-4567, ext 36585
e-mail: cooke@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

The social demography and health of Aboriginal peoples; Social inequality, the welfare state, and the life course; Population ageing and retirement.

Joel Dubin, BA, MS (Villanova), MS (UC Davis), PhD
Associate Professor
Joint Appointment with Statistics & Actuarial Science
(519) 888-4567, ext 37318
e-mail: jdubin@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Longitudinal data methodology and analysis, survival methodology and analysis, graphical methods.  Application areas include nephrology, cancer, smoking cessation, aging, and the environment.

Susan J. Elliott, BA, MA, PhD
Professor
Dean, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
Joint Appointment with Department of Geography and Environmental Management
(519) 888-4567, ext 31346
e-mail: elliotts@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Environment and health, medical geography, global environment, urban social geography, philosophy and method.

Nancy E. Fenton, RD, PhD

Assistant Professor (Adjunct)

(519) 888-4567, ext 35516
e-mail: nfenton@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Medical geography, Emotional Geography, Risk Perception, Children and Youth, Quality of Life, Child-centred methodologies, Qualitative and Post-structural methods, Communities of Practice, Mentorship competencies

John Garcia, BSc, MSc, PhD

Associate Professor

Associate Director, Professional Graduate Programs

(519) 888-4567, ext 35516
e-mail: jmgarcia@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Population-based chronic disease prevention, health of Nunavummiut, knowledge exchange, capacity building, implementation, practice-based evidence, public health policy and systems, qualitative and mixed methods, realistic evaluation

Kelly Grindrod, BSc Pharm, MSc Pharm, PharmD

Assistant Professor

(519) 888-4567, ext 21358
e-mail: kgrindrod@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Pharmacy practice and therapeutics, eHealth technologies

Peter Hall, BA, PhD

Associate Professor

(519) 888-4567, ext 38110
e-mail: pahall@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Health psychology, social neuroscience, health promotion, ecological factors

David Hammond, BA, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext 36462
e-mail: dhammond@uwaterloo.ca

website:  www.davidhammond.ca

Research Areas

Population health, tobacco control, nutrition policy, risk communication, harm reduction, global health, policy evaluation

Rhona Hanning, BASc, PhD
Associate Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext. 35685
e-mail: rhanning@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Human nutrition and chronic disease, evidence-based practice, body composition.

George Heckman,
Associate Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext 31028
e-mail: ggheckma@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Chronice disease management in frail seniors - focus on cardiovascular disease and long term care.
Primary Panel Canadian Consensus Guidelines on Heart Failure.
Lead Geriatrician Waterloo-Wellington LHIN: developing plan to integrate seniors health services.

John P. Hirdes, BSc, MA, Dipl. in Gerontology, PhD
Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext 32007
e-mail: hirdes@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Gerontology, mental health, health informatics, assessment, health policy, international comparisons, performance measurement, health care funding

interRAI

Laurie Hoffman-Goetz, BA, MA, MPH, PhD
Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext 33098
e-mail: lhgoetz@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

In Public Health: health literacy, risk communication, consumer health informatics, mass media and health education

In Biohealth:  physical activity and cancer prevention, exercise immunology, behavioural immunology, lymphocyte apoptosis

Sue Horton, BA, MA, PhD
Professor, CIGI Chair in Global Health Economics
(519) 888-4567, ext 35129
e-mail: sehorton@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Economics of public health, economics of nutrition, development economics, poverty

Janice Husted, BScN, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext 35129
e-mail: jhusted@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Epidemiology, mental health (schizophrenia), quality of life, rheumatology, epidemiologic methods, public health.

Linda L. Jessup, BScN, BA, MA, PhD
Continuing Lecturer, Associate Director Undergraduate Studies
(519) 888-4567, ext 35642
e-mail: ljessup@uwaterloo.ca

 

Jane Law, BSc, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext 38369
e-mail: j9law@uwaterloo.ca
Joint Appointment with the School of Planning

Research Areas

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.

Scott Leatherdale, BPHE, MA, PhD

Associate Professor & CCO Research Chair

(519) 888-4567, ext  37812

email: sleather@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Health Behaviour Surveillance (Physical Activity, Obesity, Alcohol and Drug Use, Tobacco Use, Eating Behaviour, Sedentary Behaviour) ; Built Environment and Behaviour; Impact of Policies / Programs on Behaviour; Co-Morbid Health Behaviours; Internet Gambling and Problem Gambling; Knowledge Translation and Exchange Systems; Cancer Epidemiology; Social Epidemiology

Shannon E. Majowicz, BSc, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor
(519) 888-4567 ext 31790
email: smajowicz@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Infectious diseases, particularly foodborne and enteric diseases, surveillance and burden of illness methods, epidemiology and epidemiologic methods, public health practice, systems approaches to food-related health outcomes, knowledge synthesis methods, knowledge brokering


Steve Manske, BSc, MSc, EdD
Research Associate Professor / Scientist
(519) 888-4518
email: manske@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Content: tobacco control, physical activity, healthy eating; Settings: schools, community, health systems; Topics: knowledge synthesis (best practices), knowledge exchange (e.g., knowledge brokers, communities of practice), evaluation & planning systems. For more details, visit my research page.

Colleen Maxwell, BSc, MA, PhD
Professor
(519) 888-4567 ext 21396
email: colleen.maxwell@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Pharmacoepidemiology, Aging, Dementia, Depression, Frailty, Assisted Living

Stephen McColl, BSc, PhD
Associate Professor; Associate Director Graduate Studies
(519) 888-4567, ext 32720
e-mail: mccoll@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Environmental health, occupational health, risk assessment and management, health policy.

Paul McDonald, BA, MA, PhD
Professor, School Director
(519) 888-4567, ext 35839
e-mail: pwmcdona@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

My research informs the development and implementation of public health policies, communication campaigns, and programs, especially those related to the prevention of chronic diseases and reducing health inequalities. My most recent work has focused on building capacity in public health research, using “systems thinking” to improve the impact of population health interventions and health care systems, reducing health inequalities, and ways to improve health warnings on tobacco products.          

Ian McKillop, BIS, DiplBusAdmin, MASc, PhD
Associate Professor
Executive Director, University Health Research, Office of Research
(519) 888-4567, ext 37127
e-mail: ian@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Design and use of health information systems; costing and performance measurement of health services; data standards, security and privacy of health information.

John Mielke , BSc, BEd, PhD, CBiol
Assistant Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext 38606
email: jgmielke@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Neurobiological embedding of adversity (e.g., poor nutrition, psychosocial stress)

Neuroplasticity during learning and following injury (e.g., ischaemia)

Steven Mock , BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext 38796

email: smock@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Lifespan Development, Sexual Minority Development, Social Nature of Coping and Decision-Making, Retirement Planning

Anita Myers , BA, MA, PhD
Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext 33664
e-mail: amyers@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Health program evaluation,  gerontology. Current projects include: evaluating licensing policies and procedures, assessing medically at risk drivers, and examining naturalistic driving behavior (using in-vehicle devices and GPS) in healthy drivers and those with neurological disorders (such as Parkinson's).

Carlos Rojas-Fernandez, BSc (Pharm), PharmD

Assistant Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext 21326
e-mail: crojas-f@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Geriatric pharmacotherapy, appropriate medication use, psychopharmacology, falls medication adherence, pain management, long term care setting, dementia, depression.

Barb Riley, BPE, MSc, PhD
HSFC/CIHR Health Policy Research Fellow
Research Assistant Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext 37562
e-mail: briley@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Politics of prevention, dissemination, public health system, chronic disease and prevention, knowledge translation, research-policy interface, population interventions.

Propel Centre for Population Health Impact

Paul Stolee, PhD
Associate Professor
(519)888-4567, ext 35879
e-mail: stolee@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Geriatric health services, rehabilitation, long-term care, home care, health information systems and databases, health outcome measurement, optometric practice, and the integration and use of knowledge and information in practice. Current major research focus on better use of information systems in the rehabilitation of older persons.

Geriatric Health Systems Group

Suzanne Tyas, BSc, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor
(519)888-4567, ext 32890
e-mail: styas@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Epidemiology of aging and epidemiologic methods. More specifically, the spectrum of cognition in aging, encompassing cognitive impairment, cognitive reserve and healthy aging.

Patricia Wainwright, BSc, MA, PhD
Professor Emerita
(519) 888-4567, ext 33924
e-mail: wainwrig@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Brain and behavioural development (drugs and nutrition).

Glenn Ward, BSc, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor
(519) 888-4567, ext 36234
e-mail: grward@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas

Development of the adrenal response to stressors, prenatal and neonatal nutrition, neurobehavioural toxicology and teratology, neurobehavioural genetics.