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 |
| Lalita A. Bharadwaj | Barriers and Key Issues to the Access of Safe and Sustainable Drinking Water Sources in First Nations Communities ; Community Based Participatory Research with Indigenous Communities ; Human and Environmental Health Risk Assessment; Community-Based Education |
| 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 |
| Colleen Anne Dell | Substance use and abuse; Addictions; Self-harm; Aboriginal women's health; Solvent abuse; Treatment and healing; Women's programming; Equine therapy; Criminalization; Program Evaluation |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Suresh Tikoo | Molecular virology; Viral pathogenesis; Virus-host interactions; Vaccinology; Mucosal immunization; Viral vectors; Dendritic cell vaccines |
| 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 |
| 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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| 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 |
| James Irvine | Aboriginal health; Northern health; Public health; Environmental health assessment; Communicable disease control health promotion |
| 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 |
| Nate Osgood | Providing tools to inform understanding of population health trends and health policy tradeoffs |
| 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 |
| Ulrich Teucher | Cultural concepts of health, illness and identity throughout the lifespan |
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