Faculty of Medicine
Physical activity, sedentary lifestyle, chronic disease prevention, social connectedness, health promotion, community engagement, implementation and scale-up of effective health interventions,
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YouTube/ channel/UCkLpH1wVeU_5HR3GuDfkbWA/Exercise, cancer, elite athletes
work and health, social determinants of health, workers’ compensation, program evaluation, health policy, public policy
Immunology, stem cell biology, inflammation, allergy, asthma, cancer, Crohn’s disease, fibrosis, kidney disease, immunotherapy, animal models, innate lymphoid cells
Delusions, Schizophrenia, psychosis, Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), CBT for psychosis, neuropsychology, fMRI,
Bipolar disorder, quality of life, stigma, community based participatory research, depression, mental health, ehealth, self-management, advocacy, mental illness
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Socioeconomic determinants of health, climate change, macroeconomics and politics,
Disabled people with respect to mobility (wheelchairs), influence of self-efficacy with respect to participation in daily activity, social activity and general quality of life especially among disabled adults and elderly, wheelchair prescription, performance and function, outcome measurement in health care
Child and adolescent mental health, mood and anxiety disorders, family therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy for depression, mindful parenting, parenting, relationships, parental mental health, social determinants of health, school-based mental health, psychotherapy, emotion-focused therapies, physician wellness
Infection and pregnancy, HPV vaccine and cervical cancer prevention, HIV in women, HIV in pregnancy
HIV, AIDS, HIV Treatment, HIV Prevention, antiretroviral therapy, ART, HAART, HIV salvage therapy, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, HIV Drug Resistance, Treatment as Prevention, TasP, Targeted Disease Elimination,
pharmacare, health care policy, pharmaceutical policy, access to medicines, prescription drug pricing, prescription drug coverage, health care financing, health care spending, Canadian medicare,
Lyme disease, Syphilis, Helicobacter and West Nile virus and other zoonotic and vector-borne diseases
Psychiatry, Psychology, Mood & Anxiety Disorders, Mental Health, eHealth, mHealth, Quality of Life, Patient Engagement, Knowledge Translation,
Nutrition, diet, obesity, aging, public health, cancer, disease prevention, mobility, seniors, healthy eating, senior citizens
global public health, including outbreaks, emerging infections, and novel respiratory pathogens, and have published widely, including with clinical trials.
(Consultant to the World Health Organization, US CDC, and PHAC on these subjects)
Sarcoma, Molecular Oncology, Cancer Diagnostics,
Medical laboratory quality management, quality assurance of medical laboratories, medical laboratory safety, international standards for medical laboratories, laboratory errors
Sexual and reproductive health, health policy and service research, Public health, Contraception, Abortion services and methods, Population health intervention research, Family planning implementation research, Health professional task sharing research,
Adult trauma