Faculty

Programs in the School of Public Health and Social Policy will be 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.

Interim Director, School of Public Health & Social Policy

Laurene Sheilds, PhD (Nursing) Research interests: Community; health promotion; empowerment; community nursing practice; life threatening illness and events; connectedness; peoples experiences of health, illness and healing; narrative inquiry; feminist research; story as a metaphor of healing; spirituality.

Faculty of the School of Public Health and Social Policy

• Charlotte Reading, PhD (School of Public Health and Social Policy) Research interests: 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
• Jeff Reading, PhD (School of Public Health and Social Policy) Research interests: Aboriginal health; health promotion; health policy; cardiovascular physiology; research administration; population and public health; health services; chronic disease; surveys; global Indigenous health
• Michael Hayes, PhD (School of Public Health and Social Policy; Director of Health Education and Research) Research interests: health inequities, disability, public policy, obesity, health literacy, population health promotion.
• Catherine Worthington, PhD (School of Public Health and Social Policy) Research interests: 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.
• Lyn Davis, PhD (School of Public Health and Social Policy). Research interests: scholarship of teaching and learning; social justice; social policy; housing; community organizing and development; lesbian health; feminism; research methodologies; program evaluation.
• Trevor Hancock, BSc, MB BS, MHSc (School of Public Health and Social Policy) Research interests: Public health systems and services research; health promotion; healthy cities and communities; health and nature; healthy public policy; community development and health.
• Brenda Canitz, BA, BScN, MScN (School of Public Health and Social Policy) Research interests: health care service design; linking practice, policy and research for health care improvement; primary health care; community health; nursing professional practice; high functioning multidisciplinary teams; rural and remote health care; plus employee engagement and mentoring.

Faculty members from the Faculty of Human and Social Development

• Jessica Ball, PhD (Child and Youth Care) Research interests: Early childhood care and development; indigenous knowledge
• Elizabeth Banister, PhD (Nursing) Research interests: Health education, health literacy, health promotion, knowledge translation, adolescent health, research ethics, qualitative research
• Elizabeth Borycki, PhD (Health Information Science) Research interests: Clinical informatics; organizational behaviour and change management in health informatics; disease management; simulations and patient safety
• Noreen Frisch, PhD (Nursing) Research interests: Holistic nursing practice; nursing language and classification; student development
• Lynda Gagné, PhD (Public Administration) Research interests: Child care policy; children outcomes; social programs; applied econometrics and microeconomics
• Marcia Hills, PhD (Nursing) Research interests: Health promotion curriculum development; family health; participatory action research; international health
• Marjorie MacDonald, PhD (Nursing) Research interests: Health promotion; community/public health; adolescent health; social and health policy; health program evaluation; advanced nursing practice; primary health care; qualitative research
• Scott MacDonald, PhD (Health Information Science) Research interests: Social epidemiology of addictions; monitoring and surveillance of addictions problems; relationship between substance use and abuse with injuries; alcohol and drug policy
• Karen MacKinnon, PhD (Nursing) Research interests: Rural maternity care and perinatal nursing; inter professional practice and education; the social organization of women’s childbearing experiences; Institutional Ethnography
• Lenora Marcelus, PhD (Nursing) Research interests: Neonatal intensive care; perinatal care; perinatal and neonatal service planning; substance use during pregnancy; FASD prevention; high risk infants in foster care; leadership; quality improvement and patient safety
• Bernie Pauly, PhD (Nursing) Research interests: Nursing ethics; health policy ethics; harm reduction; health inequities; access to health care; homelessness; addiction; HIV/AIDS
• Michael Prince, PhD (Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy, Faculty of Human and Social Development) Research interests: Retirement income policy; public policy formation and implementation; public budgeting and resource allocation
• Rita Schreiber, PhD (Nursing) Research interests: Women’s mental health; depression; psychiatric-mental health nursing; professional misconduct; advanced nursing practice; grounded theory
• Lynne Young, PhD (Nursing) Research interests: Family influence on individual response to heart-health initiatives; critical qualitative methodology conducted with research programs that include quantitative approaches.

Administrative Staff

• Joan Gillie
  Program Manager
  jgillie@uvic.ca
  250-853-3845
• Carmel Chamberlain
  Administrative Assistant to the Director, School of Public Health and Social Policy
  carmelc@uvic.ca
  250-472-5377
• Betty Taylor
  Practicum Coordinator
  btaylor@uvic.ca
  250-721-6628
• Doug Thompson
  Graduate Secretary,  Administrative Assistant, Web master, Moodle
  phsp@uvic.ca
  250-721-8204