Meet Our Faculty

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
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
Marwa Farag	Health policy; Health economics; Health care financing in developing countries; Health program evaluation; Macroeconomics and health
Cindy Xin Feng	Spatial statistics and disease mapping; Statistical methods for survival and longitudinal data; Environmental and ecological statistics; Infectious disease surveillance; Functional data analysis
Philip Griebel	Developmental immunology; Comparative immunology; Mucosal immunology; Innate immunity; Vaccine delivery
Rein Lepnurm	Health care policy and strategy; Medical care organization; Entrepreneurship
Janice MacKinnon	Fiscal policy; Health policy; Federal-provincial relations
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
Michael Szafron	Monte Carlo simulations; Statistical methods associated with Monte Carlo data; Computational biomodelling of the structure/function of biopolymers ; Statistical methods for the health sciences including survey data
Suresh Tikoo	Molecular virology; Viral pathogenesis; Virus-host interactions; Vaccinology; Mucosal immunization; Viral vectors; Dendritic cell vaccines

Associate Faculty	Areas of Research Interests
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
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; Worklife issues affecting nursing aides employed in rural long-term care facilities; 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
Donna Rennie	Respiratory epidemiology; Community health nursing; Asthma education
Karen Semchuk	Epidemiology
Natalie Shiff	Pediatric Rheumatology
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; quality care from multiple perspectives; internationally educated nurses, teaching learning – with clients/patients, nursing education, community and acute focus
Ulrich Teucher	Cultural concepts of health, illness and identity throughout the lifespan
Sylvia van den Hurk	DNA vaccines; Bovine herpesvirus-1 (BHV-1); Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV); Hepatitis C virus (HCV)

	Areas of Research Interests