MPH Faculty

Welcome from the Director

We are entering a time of public health renewal in Canada and beyond. Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society.  Achievements of public health to date include vaccination, motor vehicle safety, safety in the workplace, control of infectious diseases, decline in deaths from cardiovascular disease, safer and healthier foods, healthier mothers and babies, family planning, fluoridation of drinking water, and recognition of tobacco use as a health issue. During the next ten years, Canada will experience rising rates of chronic preventable diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, tobacco-related illness, and environmental illness. These added pressures are occurring a time when all jurisdictions are facing critical shortages in the public health workforce and struggling to maintain essential public health services. 

We have developed the MPH program in response to the needs of communities throughout BC and Canada that have called for professionals with the training necessary to carry out core public health services, research and evaluation, the skills and capacity to undertake policy development and program planning, and the capability to provide leadership in public health.

My goal, as Program Director is to ensure that our graduates are of the highest calibre to address the challenges that we face in public health.  Our program has a rigorous curriculum, designed in consultation with practicing public health professionals. We will develop a sense of community both among our students, and through our practicum experiences, between our students and the public health workforce, in British Columbia, Canada and internationally.

Select a faculty member below to view their biography.


Dr. Patricia Janssen - Director, MPH Program


patti.janssen@ubc.ca

Professor
School of Population and Public Health


       

2001

PhD

Epidemiology

University of Washington

1993

MPH

Public Health

University of Washington

1976

BSN

Nursing

UBC


Affiliations

Co-Director: Interdisciplinary Women’s Reproductive Health, Research Training Program
Senior Scientist: Child and Family Research Institute
Associate Faculty: Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Family Practice, Division of Midwifery, School of Nursing

Areas of Specialty

  • Maternal/Fetal/Newborn Health
  • Women's Health
  • Population Health
  • Clinical Epidemiology/Clinical Trials

Contact Information

Dr. Cheryl Anderson

 

cheryl.anderson@ubc.ca

Clinical Assistant Professor
School of Population and Public Health


1994

MHSc

Community Medicine

UBC

1983

MD

Medicine

University of Washington, Seattle

Areas of Specialty

  • Global Health
  • Migration Health
  • Refugee Health

Contact Information

  • Address
    932 School Green
    Vancouver, BC V6H 3N7
  • Phone  
    604-738-4655



Dr. Aslam Anis

 

Aslam.anis@ubc.ca

Professor of Health Economics

Director, Health Administration Program

Associate Member, Division of Population Health and Health Services Research
School of Population and Public Health


1981

BSS (Hons)

Economics

Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

1983 

MA

Economics

Carleton University, ON

1990

PhD

Economics

Carleton University, ON

Affiliations

Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHEOS)
Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN)
Arthritis Research Center of Canada (ARC)
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV

Areas of Specialty

  • Health Economics and Economic Evaluation
  • Pharmaceutical Policy, Pricing, Formulary Regulations
  • Health Services Research
  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Population Health
  • Arthritis, HIV/AIDS

Contact Information

Dr. Shelina Babul-Wellar

 

Shelina Babul-Wellar

sbabul@cw.bc.ca

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC

2001

PhD

Human Kinetics (Exercise Physiology)

University of British Columbia

1991

BSc

Biopsychology

University of British Columbia

Affiliations

  • Associate Director, Sports Injury Specialist, BC Injury Research & Prevention Unit
  • Investigator , Developmental Neurosciences & Child Health, Child & Family Research Institute
  • American College of Sports Medicine
  • BC Brain Injury Association
  • BC Sport & Recreation Injury Prevention Advisory Committee
  • BC Injury Prevention Conference Committee
  • Brain Injury Association of Canada Advisory Committee
  • Canadian Standards Association – BC Advisory Member
  • BC Injury Prevention Leadership and Action Network
  • Sports Medicine Council of BC
  • ThinkFirst BC – Board of Directors
  • ThinkfFirst National - Concussion Education Awareness Committee
  • Sustainable Childhood Obesity Prevention through Community Engagement (SCOPE) Advisory Committee

Areas of Specialty

Health Policy and Health Systems

  • Injury prevention
  • Sports injuries
  • Traumatic Brain Injuries/Concussions
  • Exercise physiology
  • Epidemiology
  • Head Injuries
  • Sport Medicine
  • Injury Rehabilitation
  • Cardiovascular research
  • Health Care

Contact Information

Dr. Karen H. Bartlett

 

kbartlet@interchange.ubc.ca

Associate Professor
School of Environmental Health

2000

PhD

Individual Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program

UBC

1994

MSc

Occupational Hygiene

UBC

1973

BA

 

University of Victoria

Affiliations

Institute for Resource and Environmental Sustainability (Associate Faculty)
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Associate Member)

Areas of Specialty

  • Bioaerosols
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Occupational Hygiene
  • Environmental Hygiene
  • Indoor built environment

Contact Information

Dr. Charlyn Black

 

cblack@chspr.ubc.ca

Senior Faculty
Centre for Health Services and Policy Research

Professor
School of Population and Public Health

1990

ScD

Health Services Research

The Johns Hopkins University

1979

MD

Medical Doctor

University of Manitoba

Affiliations

Senior Faculty, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research
Professor, Part-Time, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba
Member, Board of Directors, Health Quality Council, Saskatchewan

Areas of Specialty

  • Health services research
  • Health information systems
  • Quality, effectiveness and outcomes of health care
  • Knowledge translation
  • Research and policy

Contact Information

Dr. Mariana Brussoni

 

mbrussoni@cw.bc.ca
BA (Hon), MA, PhD

Affiliations

Scientist Level 1, CFRI
Academic Scientist, BC Injury Research & Prevention Unit
Director, BC Children's Hospital Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP)

Areas of Specialty

  • Child injury prevention
  • Injury-related health inequalities
  • Injury surveillance
  • Aboriginal populations
  • Injury prevention in the family context
  • Gender-based analysis of injury
  • Injury policy indicators 
  •  

Contact Information

Dr. Jane Buxton


jbuxton@interchange.ubc.ca

Assistant Professor
School of Population and Public Health


1999

FRCPC

Community Medicine


1996

MHSc

Community Medicine

UBC

1993

LMCC

Medicine

Canada

1986

MRCGP

General Practice

UK

1979

MBBS

Medicine

University of London, UK

Affiliations

The Bridge Program
UBC Centre for Disease Control
NEXUS Researching the Social Contexts of Health Behaviour

Areas of Specialty

  • Communicable Disease Control
  • Hepatitis
  • Outbreak investigation
  • Harm reduction
  • Drug use, high-risk youth
  • Transfusion transmissible diseases

Contact Information

Dr. Ray Copes

 

ray.copes@ubc.ca

Director
Environmental Health, BC Centre for Disease Control
Scientific Director
National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health

Clinical Associate Professor
School of Population and Public Health
(Clinical Professor effective July 1, 2008)


1983

DIH

 

University of Toronto

1983

MSc

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

McGill University

1983

BSc

Biosciences

Simon Fraser University

1983

BA (Hons)

Psychology

Simon Fraser University

1980

MD, CM

Medicine

McGill University

Affiliations

Associate Faculty, School of Environmental Health
Associate Faculty, Department of Medicine
Mentor, Bridge Program, UBC
Consultant, First Nations Inuit Health, Health Canada
Consultant, Government of Nunavut

Areas of Specialty

  • Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Toxicology
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Perception and Communication

Contact Information

Dr. Alan Davidson


Alan.Davidson@ubc.ca

Associate Professor, UBC

Ph.D. Health Care and Epidemiology (University of British Columbia)
M.A. Political Studies (Queen's University)
B.A. Hon. Political Science (University of Alberta)

Affiliations

Health Studies Program Coordinator

Areas of Specialty

Teaching Interests

  • Health Policy
  • Comparative Health Care Policy in the OECD
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Globalization and Human Rights

Research Interests

  • Privatization of Health Care
  • Rural Health Care
  • Comparative Health Policy
  • Health and Social Justice

Contact Information

Dr. Hugh Davies

 

hugh.davies@ubc.ca

Assistant Professor
School of Environmental Health


2002

PhD

Interdisciplinary Studies

UBC

1995

MSc

Occupational Hygiene

UBC

1992

BSc

Genetics

University of Alberta

Affiliations

CIHR BRIDGE Strategic training program

Areas of Specialty

  • Occupational Hygiene
  • Exposure Assessment
  • Occupational Noise

Contact Information

Dr. Paul Demers

 

paul.demers@ubc.ca

Professor
School of Population and Public Health


1987

MSc

Industrial Hygiene

University of Washington

1991

PhD

Epidemiology

University of Washington

Affiliations

Professor and Director, School of Environmental Health
Consulting Scientist, BC Cancer Agency
Associate Scientific Director, BC Environmental and Occupational Hhealth Research Network
Associate Director, Centre for Health and Environment Research

Areas of Specialty

  • Occupational and Environmental Cancer
  • Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Disease
  • Occupational and Environmental Heart Disease
  • Occupational Exposure Assessment
  • Work-Related Diseases and Injuries among Forest Industry Workers
  • Occupational Disease, Injury and Hazard Surveillance

Contact Information

Dr. Mahyar Etminan

 

mahyar.etminan@vch.ca
metminan@shaw.ca


Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
UBC


2004

Fellowship

Pharmacoepidemiology

McGill University

2002

MSc

Epidemiology

University of Toronto

2000

Doctor of Pharmacy

Pharmacy

Idaho State University

Affiliations

Scientist, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation

Areas of Specialty

  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Drug Safety
  • Case-control and cohort studies
  • Meta-analysis

Contact Information

Dr. J. Mark FitzGerald

 

markf@interchange.ubc.ca

Head
UBC Respiratory Division
Professor
Faculty of Medicine, UBC
Director
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation, VGH
Consultant
BC Centre for Disease Control

Medical Doctor
Faculty of Medicine, VGH


1996

FRCPI

Internal Medicine

College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ireland

1995

PhD

Medicine

University College, Dublin, Ireland

1987

FRCPC

Respiratory Medicine

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

1985

FRCPC

Internal Medicine

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

1981

Member of the College of Physicians

Medicine

College of Physicians of Ireland

1978

MB BAO BCh

Medicine

University College, Dublin, Ireland

Affiliations

The Lung Health Centre

Areas of Specialty

  • Clinical epidemiology
  • Respiratory medicine
  • Practice guidelines
  • Outcomes evaluation
  • Clinical trials
  • Molecular epidemiology

Contact Information

Dr. Jim Frankish

 

frankish@interchange.ubc.ca

Professor
School of Population and Public Health
University of British Columbia, B.A. Psychology 1981
University of British Columbia, M.A. Clinical Psychology 1986
University of British Columbia, PhD Clinical Psychology 1990


Affiliations

Director, Centre for Population Health Promotion Research - Human Early Learning Partnership (H.E.L.P.)
Director, Partners in Community Health Research – CIHR Research Training Program
Member, College for Interdisciplinary Studies (formerly Graduate Studies)
Associate Member, UBC Department of Psychology
Adjunct Professor, UBC Nutritional Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Registration, College of Psychologists of British Columbia 1990

Areas of Specialty

  • Population health and health promotion research
  • Community participation in health decision-making
  • Health impact assessment
  • Participatory research
  • Role of regional health boards in non-medical determinants of health
  • Measures of health of communities
  • Health promotion in primary care
  • Homelessness and health inequities
  • Health literacy

Contact Information

  • Address
    Room 425, Library Processing Centre 2206 East Mall Vancouver BC V6T 1Z3
  • Phone  
    604-822-9205
  • Fax      
    604-822-9210
  • E-links
    Personal web - http://www.jimfrankish.com
    Partners in Community Health Research Training Program, www.pchr.net

Dr. Eleni Galanis

eleni.galanis@bccdc.ca

Physician Epidemiologist
BCCDC

Clinical Assistant Professor
School of Population and Public Health


2000

FRCPC

Community Medicine

University of Toronto

1998

MPH

 

Harvard University

1997

 

Canadian College of Family Physicians License

University of Toronto

1995

MD

Medicine

Université de Sherbrooke

Areas of Specialty

  • Enteric and zoonotic disease surveillance, control and prevention
  • Communicable disease epidemiology
  • Outbreak investigation
  • Surveillance methods
  • International health issues

Contact Information

  • Address
    BC Centre for Disease Control
    655 W12th Ave.
    Vancouver, BC  V5Z 4R4
  • Phone  
    604-660-5401
  • Fax      
    604-660-0197 
  • E-links
    http://www.cdc.ubc.ca

Dr. Bonnie Henry

bonnie.henry@bccdc.ca

Director
Public Health Emergency Management, BCCDC

Assistant Professor
School of Population and Public Health


2001

FRCPC

Community Medicine Residency

University of Toronto

1999

MPH / FACPM

Joint Preventive Medicine Residency Training Program

University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University

1990

MD

Medicine

Dalhousie University

Affiliations

  • BC Centre for Disease Control

Areas of Specialty

  • Communicable Disease control
  • Emerging infectious diseases
  • Public health emergency management
  • Infectious disease surveillance
  • Surveillance for mass gatherings

Contact Information

  • Address
    BCCDC
    655 W 12th Ave
    Vancouver, BC V5Z 4R4
  • Phone  
    604 660-1823
  • Fax      
    604 660-0197  
  • E-links
    http://www.bccdc.org

Dr. Linda Hoang

linda.hoang@bccdc.ca

Medical  Microbiologist
Head, Bacteriology and Mycology Program
BC Centre for Disease Control 

Clinical Assistant  Professor
Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
The University of British Columbia


2006

FRCPC

Medical Microbiology

UBC

2005

DTM&H

Diploma in Tropical  Medicine and Hygiene

London Schol of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

2001

MD

Medicine

UBC

1997

MSc

Physiology

UBC

1995

BSc

Honours Physiology

UBC

Areas of Specialty

  • Public health bacteriology and mycology with interest in Clostridium difficile, community acquired MRSA, cryptococcus, neisseria meningitidis and outbreaks of enteric bacteria

Contact Information

Dr. Murray Hodgson

murray.hodgson@ubc.ca

Professor of Acoustics
School of Environmental Health
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Director
UBC Acoustics and Noise Research Group


1983

PhD

Accoustical Engineering

University of Southampton, UK

1977

MSc

Sound and Vibration Studies

University of Southampton, UK

1974

BSc  (Hons)

Physics and Mathematics

Queen’s University

Affiliations

UBC Centre for Health and Environment Research
UBC Bridge Program
UBC Sustainable Building Science Partnership
Canadian Building and Health Sciences Network
Canadian Acoustical Association
Acoustical Society of America

Areas of Specialty

  • Acoustical engineering
  • Architectural acoustics
  • Occupational noise
  • Environmental noise
  • Room-acoustical prediction
  • Active and passive noise control
  • Acoustics of 'green' buildings
  • Auralization (acoustical virtual reality)

Contact Information

  • Address
    School of Environmental Health
    University of British Columbia
    3rd Floor, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, BC  V6T 1Z3
  • Phone  
    604-822-3073
  • Fax      
    604-822-9588 
  • E-links
    http://www.cher.ubc.ca/acoustics

Dr. Naveed Janjua

Naveed.Janjua@bccdc.ca

Clinical Assistant Professor
School of Population and Public Health
Department of Medicine

Epidemiologist
Influenza and Emerging Respiratory Pathogens, BCCDC


2007

DrPH

Epidemiology/International Health

University of Alabama at Birmingham

2002

MSc

Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Aga Khan University,        Pakistan

1999

MD

Medicine

Rawalpindi Medical College, Pakistan

Affiliations

  • BC Centre for Disease Control

Areas of Specialty

  • Influenza surveillance, prevention and control
  • Influenza epidemiology/immuno-epidemiology and vaccine effectiveness
  • Unsafe medical injections and blood borne pathogens
  • Socio-economic disparities in health
  • Nutritional transition in developing countries
  • Global and international health
  • Epidemiologic methods

Contact Information

Dr. Arminée Kazanjian

a.kazanjian@ubc.ca

Professor
School of Population and Public Health


1977

PhD

Sociology

University of Paris V, Sorbonne

1973

MA

Sociology

University of Toronto

1971

BA

Hons Sociology

Loyola College, Montreal

Affiliations

BC Cancer Agency

Areas of Specialty

  • Psychosocial supportive care for cancer survivors
  • Palliative care in cross-cultural context
  • Vulnerable populations, including women's, immigrants' and rural health
  • Socio-behavioral research in health services utilization
  • Health technology assessment, systematic reviews and research synthesis
  • Health workforce planning and modeling of supply/demand
  • Health policy analysis and outcome evaluation
  • Population-based administrative data analysis and linkage

Contact Information

Dr. Svetlana Kishchenko


skishche@interchange.ubc.ca

Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health

2004

MPH

Public Health

Boston University

1990

MD

Neurology

Far-Eastern State Medical University

Affiliations

  • SPPH Course Instructor: SPPH DL 515, 540 and DL 540
  • Senior Scientist: National Institute of Health (NIH), Institute for Health Policy Analysis, Washington, DC, CME and Research Training Program
  • Faculty of Medicine: CHES, PBL

Areas of Specialty

  • Public Health
  • International Health
  • Family Medicine
  • Clinical Epidemiology/Clinical Trials

Contact Information

Office: 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, V6T 1Z3
Phone: 604-346-1030
Fax: 604-822-4994

Dr. Reinhard Michael Krausz


mkrausz@interchange.ubc.ca

Professor
Deptartment of Psychiatry, School of Population and Public Health, UBC


 













Affiliations

  • Medical Director of the Burnaby Centre for Mental Health and Addiction
  • Medical Director of the Regional Program for Complex Concurrent Disorders
  • Founding Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health at UBC
  • Member of the Brain Research Centre at UBC
  • Member of the Research Advisory Council of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research of the Canadian Centre of Substance Abuse (CCSA)
  • Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (WIF)
  • Board of Directors of the Kaiser foundation
  • St. Paul`s Hospital, Providence Health Care
  • Centre of Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHEOS)

Contact Information

Dr. Mieke Koehoorn

 

mieke.koehoorn@ubc.ca

Assistant Professor
School of Population and Public Health


1999

PhD

Epidemiology

UBC

1988

BSc

Health Education

Dalhousie University

Affiliations

School of Environmental Health
Centre for Health Services and Policy Research
The Bridge Program
Centre for Health and Environment Research
Institute for Work & Health (Toronto)

Areas of Specialty

  • Occupational injury epidemiology (e.g. projects on back injury in heavy industry and health outcomes among young workers)
  • Work-related injury and disease surveillance (e.g. projects on work-related asthma)
  • Evaluation of workers’ compensation policies (e.g. project on disability outcomes among injured workers undergoing surgery by compensation characteristics)
  • Impact of industry on community health (e.g. project on impact of mining economic activities on community measures of cardiovascular disease, mental disorders and sexually transmitted infections)
  • Environment and cardiovascular disease (e.g. projects on work exposures and CVD among fire fighters, and on air pollution and CVD in the Georgia Air Basin)

Contact Information

Dr. Jacek Kopec

 

jacek.kopec@ubc.ca

Associate Professor
School of Population and Public Health


1994

PhD

Epidemiology

McGill University

1988

MSc

Epidemiology

University of Toronto

1980

MD

Medicine

Poland

Areas of Specialty

  • Epidemiology/Clinical Epidemiology
  • Health Measurement/Quality of Life
  • Musculoskeletal Disorders

Contact Information

  • Address
    895 W. 10th Ave
    Vancouver BC V5Z 1L7
  • Phone  
    (604) 871-4588

Dr. Jean Kozak

 

jkozak@providencehealth.bc.ca

Director of Research
Centre for Healthy Aging

Assistant Professor
School of Population and Public Health


1987

PhD

Psychology

UBC

1980

MA

Psychology

UBC

Affiliations

Centre for Healthy Aging at Providence Health Care
BC Home and Community Care Research Network
Centre for Education and Research on Aging & Health (CERAH)
Dementia NET
BC Network for Aging Research (BCNAR)
Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS)
Cochrane Collaboration: Health Care of Older People Field Network (UK)

Areas of Specialty

  • Dementia
  • Chronic disease management and outcomes in the elderly
  • Functional evaluation and disability
  • Social/health outcomes in the elderly and disabled
  • The evaluation of health service models as related to the elderly and the disabled
  • Visual Analytics and Surveillance
  • Abuse and neglect in the elderly

Contact Information

Dr. Victoria Lee


victoria.lee@ubc.ca

School of Population and Public Health

2009:  FRCPC, University of Toronto
2007:  MPH,  Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
2007:  MBA,  Carey School of Business, Johns Hopkins University
2006:  CCFP, University of Toronto
2004:  MD, University of Western Ontario
2000:  BSc, McMaster University

2009

FRCPC

University of Toronto

2007

MPH

Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

2007

MBA

Carey School of Business, Johns Hopkins University

2006

CCFP

University of Toronto

2004

MD

University of Western Ontario

2000

BSc

McMaster University

Affiliations

Medical Health Officer, Fraser Health Authority

Areas of Specialty

Health Policy and Health Systems

  • Ecocultural and Ecosystem Health
  • Population Health
  • Health Financing and Health Economics

Contact Information

  • RM 121 - School of Population and Public Health
  • Faculty of Medicine
  • The University of British Columbia
  • 115-2206 East Mall
  • Vancouver, BC  V6T 1Z3
  • Tel: 604.827.4524
  •  
  • Fax 604.822.4994

Dr. Ying MacNab

 

ying.macnab@ubc.ca

Associate Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Associate Member
Department of Statistics, UBC

Investigator (Scholar)
Centre for Healthcare Innovation & Improvement
Child and Family Research Institute, UBC


 

PhD

Statistics

Simon Fraser University

 

MSc

Statistics

Simon Fraser University

 

BSc

Mathematics

Sichuan University, China

Affiliations

Department of Statistics, UBC
Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement
Child and Family Research Institute (CFRI), UBC

Areas of Specialty

  • Bayesian paradigm
  • Unification of Bayesian and frequentist statistics
  • Spatial statistics
  • Disease mapping; Burden of disease methodology
  • Injury epidemiology; Adverse medical events
  • Health service research; Population health research

Contact Information

  • Address
    # E417-4480 Oak St, Shy Bldg
    Vancouver, BC    V6H 3V4
  • Phone  
    (604) 875-3571
  • Fax      
    (604) 875-3124 
  • E-links

Mike Marin

 

mmarin@stat.ubc.ca

Lecturer, School of Population and Public Health

degrees tbc

Affiliations

  • Lecturer, Department of Statistics, UBC

Areas of Specialty

  • tbc

Contact Information

Office: LSK 375B, UBC
Phone: 604 822 1631
Fax: 604-569-2446

Dr. Louise C. Mâsse

 

lmasse@cw.bc.ca

Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics with cross-appointment in
School of Population and Public Health
University of British Columbia


1994

Post Doc

Children’s delinquency

University of Montreal

1994

PhD

Measurement & Evaluation (Psychometrics)

University of Ottawa

1989

MSc

Kinanthropology: Biomechanics

University of Ottawa

1987

BSc

Exercise Sciences

Concordia University

Affiliations

British Columbia Child Family Research Institute
Centre for Community Child Health Research
Canadian School Health Network

Areas of Specialty

  • Understand the determinants of physical activity behaviour change.
  • Childhood obesity with a primary focus on prevention strategies.
  • Population health approaches for childhood obesity (impact of school policies on the school environment, student behaviours & weight outcomes).
  • Dissemination and diffusion of efficacious interventions – understanding the process.
  • Questionnaire design and validation using advanced psychometrics methods (classical test theory, factor analytic methods & item response theory).

Contact Information

Dr. Maureen Mayhew


maureen.mayhew@ubc.ca

Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health

Clinical Scholar, Department of Family Medicine, University of British: July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2011

BSc (McGill)
MDCM (McGill)
Fam Med (McGill)
MPH (John Hopkins)

Affiliations

  • Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Population & Public Health, UBC
  • Associate, Department of Family Medicine, University of British Columbia
  • Associate, Department of Health Policy & Practice, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Medical Coordinator & Physician, Bridge Refugee Clinic, Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver, BC
  • International consultant in Health Systems, Maternal & Child Health, Monitoring & Evaluation, BASICS, USAID
  • Co-Director for Enhanced Skills Residency Program on Global Health, Department of Family Medicine, UBC

Areas of Specialty

  • Refugee Health
  • Rural and Remote Health
  • Maternal & Child Health
  • Primary Care
  • Global Health
  • Health Systems in Afghanistan

Contact Information

Office: 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3
Phone: 604-822-2772

Dr. Kimberlyn McGrail

 

kmcgrail@chspr.ubc.ca

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Centre for Health Services and Policy Research


2006

PhD

HCEP

UBC

Affiliations

Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, Statistics Canada - Health Information and Research Division

Areas of Specialty

  • Health services research
  • Equity
  • Administrative data
  • Data linkage
  • Population health

Contact Information

  • Address
    201-2206 East Mall
    Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z33
  • Phone  
    604.822.8044
  • Fax      
    604.822.5690 
  • E-links
    http://www.chspr.ubc.ca/

Dr. Craig Mitton

 

craig.mitton@ubc.ca

1994

BSc

Biopsychology

UBC

1998

MSc

Health Services Research

U of Calgary
 of Canada

2001

PhD

Health Services Research

U of Calgary
 of Canada

Affiliations

Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, VGH Senior Scientist, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation

Areas of Specialty

  • Health economics
  • Health policy
  • Health services research

Contact Information

  • Office: Rm 711, 828 W. 10th Ave
  • Phone: 604 875-4111 ex 62995

Dr. David Patrick

 

david.patrick@bccdc.ca

Associate Professor
School of Population and Public Health

Director
Communicable Diseases Epidemiology
BC Centre for Disease Control


1994

MHSc

Public Health

UBC

1991

Specialist Certificate

Infectious Diseases

Royal College of Physician and Surgeons
 of Canada

1990

FRCP

Internal Medicine

Royal College of Physician and Surgeons
 of Canada

1986

MD

Medicine

University of Ottawa

Affiliations

UBC Centre for Disease Control
The Bridge Program

Areas of Specialty

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Epidemiology
  • Sexually Transmitted Disease / HIV

Contact Information

Dr. Ian Pike

 

ipike@cw.bc.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC

1980

BSPE

Physical Education

University of Saskatchewan

1986

MSc

Education & Recreation

University of Alberta

1995

PhD

Education & Recreation

University of Alberta

Affiliations

  • Director, British Columbia Injury Research and Prevention Unit
  • Clinical Investigator, Child and Family Research Institute
  • Co-Principal Investigator, CIHR Team in Child and Youth Injury Prevention
  • Adjunct Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, Faculty of Health, York University
  • Co-Executive Director & Spokesperson, The Community Against Preventable Injuries
  • Member of the Board, BC Traffic Safety Foundation
  • Member of the Board, SMARTRISK Foundation
  • Member of the Steering Committee, Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome BC
  • Member of the Public Health Network of Canada, Injury Prevention Task Group
  • Member of the International Collaborative Effort on Injury Statistics

Areas of Specialty

Health Policy and Health Systems

  • Child and youth injury prevention
  • Aboriginal injury prevention
  • Injury Indicators development
  • Social marketing
  • Child passenger safety
  • Workplace health promotion and injury prevention

Contact Information

Address
BCIRPU
L408 – 4480 Oak Street, Vancouver,  BC    V6H 3V4
Phone
604-875-4325 Fax
604-875-3569
E-links
http://www.injuryresearch.bc.ca
http://www.preventable.ca/who-are-we/
http://www.cfri.ca/our_research/researchers/search_researchers/researcher_detail.asp?ID=105
http://childinjuryprevention.ca/
http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/42178.html

Dr. Joseph Ragaz

 

joseph.ragaz@ubc.ca

Clinical Professor, School of Population and Public Health

MD
FRCP(C)
LRCP
MRCS(UK)

Affiliations

  • Senior Medical Oncologist - Breast Cancer Clinics and Research
  • Clinical Lead - Medical Director, UBC - BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre
  • Breast Cancer Prevention Clinic

Areas of Specialty

  • tbc

Contact Information

Office: #218 - 809 W. 41st Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 2N6
Phone: 604-569-2440
Fax: 604-569-2446

Dr. Chris G. Richardson

 

chris.richardson@ubc.ca

Assistant Professor
School of Population and Public Health

Research Scientist
Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHEOS)
St. Paul's Hospital

2004

PhD

Epidemiology

UBC

1999

MSc

Community Health

University of Northern British Columbia

1993

BSc (Hons)

Biopsychology

University of Guelph

Affiliations

Co-investigator with NEXUS: Researching the Social Contexts of Health Behaviour (http://www.nexus.ubc)

Mentor with the CIHR Integrated Mentor Program in Addictions Research Training (IMPART - http://www.addictionsresearchtraining.ca)

Mentor with the CIHR Strategic Training Program in Tobacco Research (http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/cihr/training/)

Board Member of From Grief to Action

Areas of Specialty

  • The psychometrics of emerging tobacco and cannabis dependence.
  • Applied structural equation modeling: Factor analysis of the Dimensions of Tobacco Dependence Scale and latent growth mixture modeling of substance use trajectories and their determinants in adolescents.
  • The psychosocial determinants of adolescent substance use (e.g. alcohol, marijuana, tobacco).
  • Examining the relationship between childhood trauma, PTSD and substance use in adolescent populations.
  • Methodological research involving quality of life outcomes in clinical settings.

Contact Information

Dr. Brian T. Schmidt

 

bschmidt@phsa.ca

Senior Vice President
Provincial Services
Population and Public Health
PHSA

Clinical Associate Professor
Faculty of Medicine, UBC

1995

Fellow

 

Canadian College of Health Service Executives

1978

MSc

Health Services Administration and Planning

UBC

1976

O.D. (Doctor of Optometry)

School of Optometry, Faculty of Science

University of Waterloo

Affiliations

Canadian College of Health Service Executive (Fellow)
Health Care Leaders Association of BC (Chair)
Accreditation Canada (Surveyor)

Areas of Specialty

  • Governance
  • Leadership

Contact Information

  • Address
    Provincial Health Services Authority
    700-1380 Burrard Street
    Vancouver, BC  V6Z 2H3
  • Phone  
    (604) 675-7456
  • Fax  
    (604) 708-2757
  • E-Links  
    http://www.phsa.ca

Dr. Samuel Sheps

 

sam.sheps@ubc.ca

Professor
School of Population and Public Health

Program Director
MSc / PhD Programs
School of Population and Public Health

Director Western Regional Training Centre for Health Services Research

1979

FRCPC

Pediatrics

 

1978

 

RWJ Clinical Scholars Program

McGill University

1977-78

 

Research Associate

London School of Economics

1976-78

MSc

Epidemiology

McGill University

1973-76

 

Pediatric Training

Montreal Children’s Hospital

1973

MD

 

Case Western Medical School

1969

BA

 

Antioch College

Affiliations

Canadian Patient Safety Institute
CHSRF EXTRA Program

Areas of Specialty

  • Clinical Epidemiology as a basic and applied science in medical research and clinical decision making: Developed Faculty of Medicine wide residency training program in clinical epidemiology and critical appraisal.
  • Organization and delivery of child health services
  • Changing pattern of incidence and prevalence of infant mortality and handicapping conditions among children in B.C.
  • Health Policy Research - particularly utilization management and procedure variation and appropriateness of health care utilization
  • Development and implementation of a health service research training program in collaboration with the University of Manitoba and University of Alberta
  • Patient safety research, governance issues, conceptual models (resilience, functional resonance), incident reporting and investigation
  • Surgical wait list and wait times research

Contact Information

  • Address
    #14 Hut
    HCEP
    5804 Fairview Avenue
    Vancouver, BC  V6T 1Z3
  • Phone  
    604-822-3081
  • Fax      
    604-822-4994 
  • E-links

Dr. Jean Shoveller

 

jean.shoveller@ubc.ca

Associate Professor
School of Population and Public Health


1997

PhD

Interdisciplinary Studies

UBC

1990

MA

Health Education

Dalhousie University

1988

BSc

Health Education

Dalhousie University

Affiliations

NEXUS: Investi: Investigating the Social Contexts of Health Behaviour
The Centre for Health and Environmental Research (CHER)
Department of Preventive Medicine, Medical School, Universidade do Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Health Sciences Program, University of Northern British Columbia
Institute Advisory Board, CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health

Areas of Specialty

  • Social and institutional contexts of youth health, with a particular emphasis on investigating the impact of gender, culture and place on sexual health inequities amongst young people.
  • Population health intervention research related to youth sexual health
  • Integration of participatory approaches to research (where youth are directly involved in the planning and implementation of research projects)

Contact Information

Dr. Joel Singer

 

joel.singer@ubc.ca

Professor
School of Population and Public Health


1977

PhD

Psychology

University of Waterloo

1974

MA

Psychology

University of Waterloo

1972

BSc

Psychology

McGill University

Affiliations

Canadian HIV Trials Network, Programme Head, Data and Methodology
Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, Scientist

Areas of Specialty

  • Clinical trials with special emphasis on HIV/AIDS.
  • Interested in quality of life issues in the context of clinical trials.
  • Involved in a number of other areas including renal disease, genetic screening, arthritis, neonatal health

Contact Information

Dr. Boris Sobolev

 

sobolev@interchange.ubc.ca

Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research

Associate Professor
School of Population and Public Health


1989

PhD

Applied Statistics

Academy of Sciences, USSR

1983

MSc

Mathematics

Tomsk State University, USSR

Affiliations

Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation

Areas of Specialty

  • Health Services Research
  • Biostatistics
  • Computer Simulation Modeling
  • Clinical Epidemiology

Contact Information

  • Address
    Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation
    VGH Research Pavilion
    705-828 West 10th Avenue
    Vancouver, BC   V5Z 1L8
  • Phone  
    (604) 875-4558
  • Fax      
    (604) 875-5179 
  • E-links
    http://www.vch.ca/c2e2/

Dr. Jerry Spiegel

 

jerry.spiegel@ubc.ca

Associate Professor
School of Population and Public Health


2000

PhD

Community Health Sciences

University of Manitoba

1986

MSc

Health Administration / Occupational  & Environmental Health

University of Toronto

1976

MA

Economics & Sociology

McGill University

Affiliations

The Bridge Program
Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for International Health, College of Health Disciplines

Areas of Specialty

  • Effects of globalization on social organization and health
  • Ecosystem approach to human health
  • Understanding and addressing influences of physical and social environments on health
  • Global health and human security
  • Health and equity in Latin America; Cuba health system
  • Economic evaluation of interventions
  • Global and International Health
  • Equity and Health

Contact Information

Dr. Patricia Spittal

 

pmspittal@gmail.com

(awaiting degree info)

Affiliations

  • Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHEOS)
  • St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC

Areas of Specialty

  • sexual and drug related harms associated with injection drug use
  • vulnerabilities of young aboriginal drug users who live in both Vancouver and in the interior of British Columbia

Contact Information

Office: Rm 269, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, V6T 1Z3
Phone: 604-806-8779
Fax: 604-806-9044

Dr. Kay Teschke

 

kay.teschke@ubc.ca

Professor
School of Population and Public Health
School of Environmental Health

1994

PhD

Environmental Health

University of Washington, Seattle

1982

MPH

Occupational Hygiene

University of California, Berkeley

1979

Dipl T

Environmental Health

BCIT

1973

BA

Economics

Trent University

Affiliations

School of Environmental Health
The Bridge Program

Areas of Specialty

  • Exposure assessment in the work and community environments
  • Empirical modelling of factors that influence exposure levels in the work and community environments
  • Methods of exposure assessment to improve exposure-response relationships
  • Occupational and environmental epidemiology

Contact Information

Dr. Hubert Wong

 

hubert.wong@ubc.ca

Assistant Professor
School of Population and Public Health

Associate Head
Data & Methodology Programme
Canadian HIV Trials Network

Scientist
Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcomes Sciences
St. Paul's Hospital

2000

PhD

Statistics

UBC

1992

BASc

Engineering Physics

UBC

Affiliations

Canadian HIV Trials Network
Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcomes Sciences

Areas of Specialty

  • Clinical trials methodology
  • Clinical prediction rules
  • Causal modeling
  • Foundations of statistics
  • Statistical education

Contact Information

  • Address
    Canadian HIV Trials Network
    #620 - 1081 Burrard St
    Vancouver, BC  V6Z 1Y6
  • Phone  
    604-806-8443
  • Fax      
    604-806-8005
  • E-links
    www.hivnet.ubc.ca
    www.cheos.ubc.ca

 

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