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.
Name | Area | Contact |
Acting Director and Lansdowne Professor School of Public Health and Social Policy | Disabilities, public health policy |
Office: HSD B202f |
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 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 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 |
Assistant Teaching Professor Emerita School of Public Health and Social Policy | Scholarship of teaching and learning; social justice; social policy; housing; community organizing and development; lesbian health; feminism; research methodologies; program evaluation | |
Assistant Teaching Professor School of Public Health and Social Policy | Indigenous knowledge and education; digital pedagogies; cultural safety and trauma-informed change management; Indigenous mental health and life promotion; youth organizing and resistance to settler colonialism | |
Assistant Teaching Professor 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 (2018-2021) 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 | |
Associate Professor School of Public Health and Social Policy | Sexual health; global health; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and two-spirit (LGBTQ2S) people; HIV prevention and care; health equity; interdisciplinary approaches; indigenous health; mixed methods; community-based research; public health surveillance; infectious diseases; population health |
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 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 |
Office: HSD B232 |
Professor 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 |
Office: HSD A332 |
Professor 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 | Culturally safe health and social service access; Métis Peoples health; reproductive justice; abortion access; qualitative methods; decolonizing research methodologies; public health feminisms. | |
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 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 |
Director (on leave: July1, 2023 – June 30, 2024) / Professor 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 A357 |
Interdisciplinary faculty
Name | Area | Contact |
UVic Distinguished Professor Human and Social Development | Drug law and policy; maternal-state conflicts; film and print media representations; women in conflict with the law; research methodology |
Office: HSD B246 |
Professor 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 |
Office: HSD B250 |
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 | |
Professor Emerita Human and Social Development | Poverty; welfare; women's provisioning work; community organizations; female delinquency; juvenile justice; correctional policies | Professor Emerita |
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 |