Faculty

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

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.

Community health; scholarship of teaching and learning; cultural safety; program evaluation; relational practice; health promotion; mental health, health education

Public health systems and services research; health promotion; healthy cities and communities; health and nature; healthy public policy; community development and health

Health inequities, disability, public policy, obesity, health literacy, population health promotion

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

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

Disability, assistive technology, policy and practices with respect to individuals with disabilities and their families; disability supports and services

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

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

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.

Culturally safe health and social service access; Métis Peoples health; reproductive justice; abortion access; qualitative methods; decolonizing research methodologies; public health feminisms.

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

Aboriginal health; health promotion; health policy; cardiovascular physiology; research administration; population and public health; health services; chronic disease; surveys; global Indigenous health

Development and course of substance use problems and addiction, and the role played by the treatment system in recovery.

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

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.

Drug law and policy; maternal-state conflicts; film and print media representations; women in conflict with the law; research methodology

Social organization of professional knowledge; institutional ethnography; policy and practice in human service organizations; the organization of international 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

Poverty; welfare; women's provisioning work; community organizations; female delinquency; juvenile justice; correctional policies

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