Faculty

Programs in the School of Public Health and Social Policy are delivered by faculty newly hired to the school, existing faculty from related schools within the Faculty of Human and Social Development, as well as experienced practitioners in the field of public health.

NameAreaContact
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health and Social Policy
harm reduction, opioid policy, substance use, community drug checking, safe consumption, overdose prevention, health equity, social justice, health policy, women’s health, community-based research, international policy
Office: 285A Health and Wellness Building (HWB)
Assistant Professor
Public Health and Social Policy
Office: HSD 242B
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health and Social Policy
Gerontology; technology and aging; Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer plus (2SLGBTQ+) aging; global 2SLGBTQ+ health; health equity; community-based research; virtual community building and social connectivity; health promotion.
Associate Teaching Professor and Undergraduate Advisor
School of Public Health and Social Policy
Community health; scholarship of teaching and learning; cultural safety; program evaluation; relational practice; health promotion; mental health, health education
Office: HSD B202b
Professor Emeritus
School of Public Health and Social Policy
Public health systems and services research; health promotion; healthy cities and communities; health and nature; healthy public policy; community development and health
Professor Emeritus
School of Public Health and Social Policy
Health inequities, disability, public policy, obesity, health literacy, population health promotion
Professor
Sexual and reproductive health; Two-Spirit and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (2S/LGBTQ) people; HIV prevention and care; health equity; interdisciplinary approaches; Indigenous health; mixed methods; community-based research; public health surveillance; infectious diseases; population health
(On leave)
Office: HSD B202e
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health and Social Policy
Scholarship of teaching and learning; Nutrition and diet-related non-communicable diseases; nutritional and environmental epidemiology; food security; food environments; global health; Indigenous health; mixed methods research; social and cultural determinants of nutrition and health
Office: HSD B202c
Professor Emeritus
School of Public Health and Social Policy
Disability, assistive technology, policy and practices with respect to individuals with disabilities and their families; disability supports and services
Professor Emerita
School of Public Health and Social Policy
Indigenous health; Sexual and reproductive health across the lifespan; sexual diversity; sex trade work; HIV/AIDS; the construction of female sexuality and the cultural determinants of health
Professor and Social Dimensions of Health Advisor
School of Public Health and Social Policy
Environmental health equity, ecological sustainability, social and environmental justice, critical health promotion, healthy living environments, housing rights, participatory action research, public health history, health geography
Office: HSD B232
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health and Social Policy
Anti-racist implementation science, social and psychiatric epidemiology, global health; community-health system-university partnerships; lived experience, community-led, community-embedded, trauma-informed, and decolonizing research approaches; interdisciplinary quantitative, qualitative, policy, and mixed methods research and evaluation; migration and mental health inequities; work environments and mental health inequities; non-communicable disease prevention; urban health solutions.
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health and Social Policy
Culturally safe health and social service access; Métis Peoples health; reproductive justice; abortion access; qualitative methods; decolonizing research methodologies; public health feminisms.
Office: HSD 242B
Professor
School of Public Health and Social Policy
Substance-use epidemiology; alcohol consumption, binge drinking, youth drinking, drinking and health; substance-use policies; public health policies; population-level health; alcohol policies, cannabis policies, opioid policies
Office: HWB 273B
Professor Emeritus
School of Public Health and Social Policy
Aboriginal health; health promotion; health policy; cardiovascular physiology; research administration; population and public health; health services; chronic disease; surveys; global Indigenous health
Associate Professor and Associate Dean Research (Acting), Faculty of Human and Social Development
School of Public Health and Social Policy
Development and course of substance use problems and addiction, and the role played by the treatment system in recovery.
Office: HWB 267
Professor and Director
School of Public Health and Social Policy
Health services research; program evaluation; access to health care; recipient views of services; social-structural drivers of health; HIV/AIDS; homelessness; adolescent health; community-based participatory research; survey methods; qualitative methods; research ethics
Office: HSD B202f
Associate Professor
School of Public Health and Social Policy
Spirit and land-based dimensions of Indigenous health, Indigenous Resurgence, Decolonizing praxis, Indigenous Child Welfare (historical and current), Intersectionality & identity development, Storied and community engaged research.
Office: HSD A332

Interdisciplinary faculty

NameAreaContact
UVic Distinguished Professor Emerita
Human and Social Development
Drug law and policy; maternal-state conflicts; film and print media representations; women in conflict with the law; research methodology
Professor Emerita
Human and Social Development
Social organization of professional knowledge; institutional ethnography; policy and practice in human service organizations; the organization of international development
Professor Emerita
Human and Social Development
Feminist theory; feminist methodologies; discursive spaces; autobiographical writing; ill bodies; combat veterans; contested illness; myalgic encephalopathy (ME); post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Bruce Springsteen
Professor Emerita
Human and Social Development
Poverty; welfare; women's provisioning work; community organizations; female delinquency; juvenile justice; correctional policies
Professor Emerita
Human and Social Development
Connections between policy and practice in the human services; critical approaches to policy analysis; critical perspectives on mental illness/health; women's policy agencies and gender mainstreaming initiatives within government