The School of Public Health works closely with world-renowned research centres and leading scientists, industry experts and practitioners within the University of Saskatchewan. Along with providing education and training, our faculty have achieved national and international reputations for excellence in their respective fields.
| Faculty Members | Areas of Research Interests |
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| Allen Backman | Health policy; Health politics; Health ethics; Strategic planning and management ; Health Care Human Resources; Issues of retention, recruitment, satisfaction and skill mix utilization of health care providers |
| Yelena Bird | Smoking cessation policy; Domestic violence prevention; Environmental health; Women's health |
| Robert W. Buckingham | Hospice care; Global public health ; HIV/AIDS in South East Asia and Central America |
| John Campbell | Field epidemiology; Zoonosis and animal-human vectors of disease |
| Colleen Dell | Substance use and abuse; Addictions; Self-harm; Aboriginal women's health; Solvent abuse; Treatment and healing; Women's programming; Equine therapy; Criminalization |
| Carl D’Arcy | Research design; Population and community surveys; Administrative data files; Health determinants; Public mental health; Psycho-social epidemiology; Common psychiatric disorders; Health inequalities |
| Gerri Dickson | International health; Primary health care; Community-based participatory action research |
| Tasha Epp | Zoonotic diseases; Public health; Epidemiology |
| Marwa Farag | Health policy; Health economics; Health care financing in developing countries; Health program evaluation; Macroeconomics and health |
| Volker Gerdts | Development of neonatal vaccines, for example against pertussis (whooping cough); Innate immunity at the respiratory surfaces (antimicrobial peptides); Basic mechanisms of intestinal immunity, lymphocyte trafficking, mucosal immunology, chemokines; Enteric infections (such as e. coli in pigs); Knowledge transfer of basic research into applied clinical research and producers |
| Philip Griebel | Developmental immunology; Comparative immunology; Mucosal immunology; Innate immunity; Vaccine delivery |
| Beth Horsburgh | Adult self-care and caregiving in the context of chronic illness (Chronic Kidney Disease) |
| Emily Jenkins | Zoonoses (diseases that transmit between animals and people) in northwestern Canada, including environmentally-transmitted (Echinococcus, Baylisascaris, and Giardia), vector-borne (West Nile virus), rodent-borne (Hanta virus, plague), and food-borne diseases (Toxoplasma); Climate and landscape change and the ecology of zoonoses with wildlife reservoirs in northwestern Canada; Indigenous health and country food safety and security in Canada's North |
| Glenis Joyce | Conflict management; Advocacy |
| Rein Lepnurm | Health care policy and strategy; Medical care organization; Entrepreneurship |
| Lisa Lix | Analysis of longitudinal/repeated measures data; Methods for observational studies of population health and health service use; Multivariate analyses of quality of life and behavioural health outcomes |
| Janice MacKinnon | Fiscal policy; Health policy; Federal-provincial relations; Equalization; Carbon Tax |
| John Moraros | Cancer epidemiology in minority populations; Cancer prevention through lifestyle change, such as dietary practices and smoking behavior; Cancer screening practices; Health disparities; Aboriginal health; Immigrant and refugee health; Intimate partner violence; STI and HIV/AIDS; Alcohol and drug abuse |
| George Mutwiri | Vaccines, adjuvants and immunotherapeutic agents ; Vaccine formulation and delivery systems; Immunobiology of Toll-like receptors; Mucosal immunology |
| Sarah Parker | Diagnostic tests for surveillance of food borne disease; Risk factors for occurrence of pathogens during management at farm and during processing; Implementation and evaluation of disease control programs with respect to foodborne illness; Health risk analysis comparing pathogen loads and chemical residue levels; Epidemiology of food-borne disease |
| Andrew Potter | Bacterial pathogenesis; Subunit vaccine development; Vaccine formulation and delivery; Pathogenomics |
| Bruce Reeder | Epidemiology of obesity in Canada and the relationship between obesity and cardiovascular disease; Community-based promotion of physical activity and prevention of obesity; Preventive medicine and clinical health promotion; Health services for under-served populations; Global health |
| Rose Roberts | |
| Syed Shah | Preventive cardiology, particularly on identifying and modifying cardiovascular risk factors early in life to lower the risk of later cardiovascular disease ; Epidemiology of work-related injuries; Mental health; Global health |
| Suresh Tikoo | Molecular virology; Viral pathogenesis; Virus-host interactions; Vaccinology; Mucosal immunization; Viral vectors; Dendritic cell vaccines |
| Hugh Townsend | Infectious disease epidemiology; Public health; Vaccine formulation; Delivery and efficacy; Immune response to infection |
| Hassan Vatanparast | Nutritional epidemiology with emphasis on nutrition-related non-communicable diseases; Community-based health promotion; Public health nutrition; Nutritional assessment; Analysis of complex health survey data |
| Barbara von Tigerstrom | Health law; Public health law and policy; International law |
| Cheryl Waldner | Environmental epidemiology including effects of the oil and gas industry on health and livestock productivity; On-farm food safety including diagnosis of salmonella in swine herds, campylobacter in feedlots, and antimicrobial resistance in swine and cattle; Factors affecting the health and productivity of cow-calf herds in western Canada (this includes trace mineral nutrition, BVDV, IBR, neospora, and cryptosporidia spp. and giardia spp. in cow-calf herds); Multi-level and spatial analysis of epidemiological data |
| Stephen Whitehead | Community medicine and unmet needs in the community |
| Associate Faculty | Areas of Research Interests |
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| Sylvia Abonyi | Medical/health anthropology; Qualitative research methods; Aboriginal health; Global policies and local health; Population health; Participatory action research; Type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| Lalita Bharadwaj | Toxicologist; Human health risk assessment; Water and health; Community-based participatory research; Aboriginal research; Capacity building |
| Larry Brawley | Use of physical activity as a health promotion and disease prevention behavior; Social and psychological factors that influence adherence to physical activity for fitness, therapy and physical function; Related investigations of symptomatic and asymptomatic populations of young to older adults and selected physical disability populations; Barriers to physical activity and measurement of barriers; Group-mediated cognitive behavioural counseling for self-regulation and self-management; Individual and community-based interventions; Messaging and mass-media campaigns; Knowledge translation and mobilization |
| John Gordon | Allergic disease; Inflammation |
| Nancy Gyurcsik | Health promotion and chronic disease prevention through regular physical activity; Study of self-regulatory skills (e.g., identifying and coping with salient barriers, self-monitoring, relapse prevention, etc.) and related efficacy beliefs important to physical activity adherence; Self-regulatory interventions to promote physical activity adherence; Individuals with arthritis are of primary interest as well as adults in transition (e.g., into young adulthood, older adulthood) |
| Paul Hackett | Historical and geographical patterns of the health of western Canada’s First Nations |
| Lori Hanson | Global health and development (community-based approaches); Transformative pedagogies; Activism and social movements; Sexual and reproductive health (including midwifery, gender-based violence); Fair trade, gender and health; Community-based, participatory, and arts-informed research |
| James Irvine | Aboriginal health; Northern health; Public health; Environmental health assessment; Communicable disease control health promotion |
| Bonnie Janzen | Gender, multiple roles, and health; Social epidemiology; Population health |
| Shelley Kirychuk | Respiratory health of agricultural populations and occupational hygiene |
| Niels Koehncke | Occupational health screening and surveillance; Industrial hygiene; Occupational noise exposure; Aviation and aerospace medicine |
| Anthony Kusalik | Logic programming; Bioinformatics; Neural networks; Intelligent methods for VLSI design; Internet security |
| Ted Leighton | Pathology and epidemiology of non infectious and infectious diseases of wild animals; Disease surveillance; Disease management; Interpretation of science to the general public; Avian influenza viruses in wild birds; Transmission dynamics of chronic wasting disease; Epidemic disease in double crested cormorants |
| Hyun Ja Lim | Statistical methods for longitudinal data; Recurrent event models in survival analysis; Design and analysis of clinical trials; Epidemiologic studies; HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention studies |
| Debra Morgan | Rural health care delivery; Work life issues affecting nursing aides employed in rural long-term care facilities, including physical assault, training, workload, empowerment and job stress; Care of long-term care residents with dementia; Culture change in long-term care; Physical and social environments of long-term care facilities and their impact on residents and staff; Knowledge translation and exchange in long-term care, particularly in rural settings |
| Nate Osgood | Providing tools to inform understanding of population health trends and health policy tradeoffs |
| Punam Pahwa | Statistical modeling of longitudinal data and correlated survival data; Modeling of missing observations in longitudinal studies; Direct and indirect costs of farm injuries; Exposures of interest (grain dust, pesticide); Diseases of Interest (cancer, respiratory disease, farm injuries) |
| Jennifer Poudrier | Aboriginal health and wellness; Social studies of science and knowledge; Gender and health; Medical sociology; PhotoVoice; Community-based Aboriginal health research; Genetic science; Healthy body weight and body image; Breast Cancer |
| Louise Racine | Immigrant and refugee health across the lifespan; Cultural safety and marginalized populations; Family caregiving; Health care services; Qualitative research methodologies with an interest for all types of ethnographies, discourse analysis, and narrative inquiry |
| Donna Rennie | Respiratory epidemiology; Community health nursing; Asthma education |
| Karen Semchuk | Epidemiology |
| Kevin Spink | Group dynamics and the application of group interventions to promote exercise and adherence behaviour; Relationship between various social-psychological correlates/determinants and adherence to physical activity across the lifespan |
| Lynnette Stamler | Enablement; Teaching learning – with clients/patients; Nursing education: Community and acute focus |
| Caroline Tait | Contrasting the Canadian and American public health responses to substance abuse by pregnant women |
| Ulrich Teucher | Cultural concepts of health, illness and identity throughout the lifespan |
| Roanne Thomas-MacLean | Sociology of health and illness; Qualitative research; Gender; Sociology of the body; Primary health care |
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