Public Health

Michael Noble, MD, FRCPC

Professor

Medical laboratory quality management, quality assurance of medical laboratories, medical laboratory safety, international standards for medical laboratories, laboratory errors

John Innes

John Innes

Professor

Forestry, forest management, forest certification, aboriginal forestry, biodiversity, climate change, communities and livelihoods, conservation, ecosystems, forest management, forest policy, social impact, sustainability, drought, forest fires, wildfires, heat waves, people’s responses to heat waves, impact of heat waves on forests, adaptation of forests to climate change, responses of resorts (such as Whistler) to climate change, biological diversity, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy

Professor

Crystallography, iron metabolism, protein structure

Robert Brunham, MD

Professor

Chlamydia, immunology, pelvic inflammatory, pathogenesis, chronic infection, vaccine development, disease prevention, clinical investigation, animal models infection, emerging infectious diseases and disease outbreaks

Jerry Spiegel, MSc, PhD

Professor

Director, Global Health Research Program

Global health, international health, environmental health, Cuba, Latin America

Dr. Sally Thorne, PhD, RN, DSc (Hon), FAAN, FCAHS, FCAN

Dr. Sally Thorne, PhD, RN, DSc (Hon), FAAN, FCAHS, FCAN

Professor

Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs

Health Care, Philosophy/Ethics, Communication, Cancer, End-of-Life, Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), Palliative care, Supportive Care, Nursing,

John Oliffe, PhD

John Oliffe, PhD

Professor

Men’s health, men’s depression, suicide, prostate cancer, men’s sexual health, immigrant men’s heart health, masculinities, gender and health, men’s smoking, cancer communication, mental illness

Muhammad Morshed, BSc, MSc, PhD

Clinical Professor

Lyme disease, Syphilis, Helicobacter and West Nile virus and other zoonotic and vector-borne diseases

Anthony Chow, MD

Anthony Chow, MD

Professor Emeritus

Division of Infectious Diseases

Infectious diseases, emerging and re-emerging, epidemiology, public health, diagnosis and treatment, superbugs, animal models of infection, microbial pathogenesis, new drug discovery, antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial stewardship, toxic shock syndrome, superantigens, host immunity, defences

Lawrence Frank, PhD

Lawrence Frank, PhD

Professor

Health and environmental impacts of transportation and urban planning (land use) decisions, transportation, transit, public health, sustainability, sprawl, neighbourhood walkability, physical activity, urban planning, sustainable development, public transport, public transit

Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc, PhD, RN, FSAHM, FCAHS, FAAN, FCAN

Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc, PhD, RN, FSAHM, FCAHS, FAAN, FCAN

Professor and Director

SOGI education, LGBTQ2S+ health, adolescent health, nursing, public health nursing, trans and non-binary youth, homeless youth, stigma and discrimination, youth sexual health, youth mental health, adolescent substance use,

Michael Curry, LLB/JD, MD, CCFP(EM), FCLM, FCFP

Michael Curry, LLB/JD, MD, CCFP(EM), FCLM, FCFP

Clinical Associate Professor

Emergency medicine, emergency room, emergency doctor, emergency physician, stroke, heart attack, trauma, accident, illness, influenza, superbug, MRSA, E coli, medicolegal, medical legal, medical law, legal medicine, medical ethics, health care ethics, malpractice, ethics, doctor, coronavirus,

Tracy L. Friedel, PhD

Tracy L. Friedel, PhD

Retired Associate Professor

Youth resistance, non-formal learning, land-based pedagogy, place-based learning, environmental education, outdoor education, oral histories, labour history, injury prevention

Sabrina Wong, RN, PhD

Sabrina Wong, RN, PhD

Professor and Director

Primary care, primary health care, health policy

Judith Lynam

Judith Lynam

Professor

Her research examines approaches to health care delivery that foster child health equity. In particular she has studied the impact of a social pediatrics model of service delivery on child health and developmental outcomes in Vancouver’s inner city.

Jennifer Black, PhD

Jennifer Black, PhD

Assistant Professor

Neighbourhood-level and social determinants of health, nutrition, healthy eating, healthy diet

Joseph Ragaz, MD

Clinical Professor, Medical Oncology

Breast cancer, population trends and control, breast cancer incidence, mortality trends in China versus Canada, hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer, molecular testing (signatures) of human malignancies – and its practical use

Dr. Mariana Brussoni, PhD

Dr. Mariana Brussoni, PhD

Professor

Child development, children’s outdoor play and risky play, parent and educator perspectives of risk, design of child-friendly neighbourhoods

Lindsay Eltis

Lindsay Eltis

Professor

Bacterial catabolism, pollutant degradation, steroid degradation, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, biocatalysts

Kendall Ho, MD

Professor, Dept. of Emergency Medicine

Director, eHealth Strategy Office

eHealth, knowledge translation, educational research, continuing professional development, interprofessional education, evidence informed policy, eLearning, global eHealth