Public Health

Dr. Nirma Khatri Vadlamudi

Dr. Nirma Khatri Vadlamudi

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Vaccination, Pneumococcal Vaccines, RSV Vaccines, Rotavirus Vaccines

Dr. Meaghan Thumath

Dr. Meaghan Thumath

Clinical Assistant Professor

Overdose, Substance Use, Addiction, Mental Health, Opioid Crisis, Drug Use, Harm Reduction, Homelessness, Gender, Women Drug Use, Child Welfare, Child Custody, Maternal Mortality, Marginalized Women, Vulnerable Women, Drug Treatment, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Communicable Disease Control, Outbreaks, COVID, Monkeypox, HIV, AIDS, Sexual Health, Contraception, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STIs), syphilis, congenital syphilis, Nursing, Nurses, Global Health, WHO, Ebola, International Health, Health Equity

Wes Regan

Wes Regan

PhD candidate

Urban planning, public policy, disinformation, misinformation, conspiracy theories, conspiracism, public trust, communication, public health

Dr. Aslam Anis, PhD, FCAHS

Dr. Aslam Anis, PhD, FCAHS

Professor and Director pro tem, School of Population and Public Health

Director, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS)

National Director, CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN)

Health economics, pharmacoeconomics, pharmaceutical pricing & policy, population and public health, productivity measurement, HIV/AIDS, marginalized populations, addiction, rheumatoid arthritis, pharmacare,

William Bowie, MD

Professor

Infections (travel, sexually transmitted diseases, water borne, vector borne, zoonotic), bioterrorism, antibiotic use, public health issues related to communicable disease, climate change, environmental degradation, inequities and infection, global warming

 

Joan Bottorff, PhD, RN

Joan Bottorff, PhD, RN

Professor

Health promotion, chronic disease prevention, smoking cessation, tobacco control, men’s health, fathers, family health, healthy lifestyles, well being, gender and health, cancer prevention, workplace health promotion

Max Cynader, CM, OBC, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS

Max Cynader, CM, OBC, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS

Professor of Opthalmology & Visual Sciences

Eye diseases, glaucoma, dyslexia, stroke, neurotrauma, memory, vision, learning disabilities, hearing development, recovery after brain damage, ischemia, gene therapy

Robert Enns

Clinical Professor

Gastroenterology, Crohn’s disease, pancreatitis, endoscopy, Barrett’s esophagus

Brett Finlay, PhD

Brett Finlay, PhD

Professor

Bacterial disease, food poisoning, E. coli, salmonella

Lari Häkkinen, DDS, PhD

Lari Häkkinen, DDS, PhD

Associate Professor

Periodontal tissues, wound healing, cell and molecular biology of wound healing and interactions of cells with extracellular matrix

Michael Doebeli, PhD

Michael Doebeli, PhD

Professor

Evolution, biodiversity, cooperation, biological diversity

Patricia Vertinsky, Ed.D

Professor

Social and cultural history of the body, gender, race, aging and disability, gender relations, health, sport and exercise, social history of women and health, social/cultural aspects of sport and physical activity, health education, promotion and policy

Raymond Lam, MD, FRCPC

Professor

BC Leadership Chair in Depression Research

Seasonal affective disorder, winter depression, antidepressants, light therapy, depression, clinical guidelines, circadian rhythms, melatonin, serotonin, dopamine, noradrenaline, tryptophan, cognition, technology, eHealth, mHealth, guidelines, biomarkers, diagnosis, internet, mental illness

Prof. William Mohn, PhD

Prof. William Mohn, PhD

Professor

microbiology, microbial ecology, microbiome, bacterial catabolism, lignin degradation, lignocellulose degradation, steroid degradation, aromatic compound degradation, forest soil ecology, genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, metatranscriptomics, vaccine response, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bioproducts,

Peter Paré, MD

Professor

Asthma, emphysema, genetics, lung disease

Joel Oger

Professor Emeritus

Multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, auto-immune diseases

Robert Schellenberg, MD, FRCP(C)

Professor

Primary immune deficiency, asthma, allergic diseases

Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC

Professor

Injection drug use, population health, epidemiology, urban health, HIV/AIDS, antiretroviral therapy, addiction, opioids, fentanyl

Prof. Helen Tremlett, PhD

Prof. Helen Tremlett, PhD

Professor & Canada Research Chair in Neuroepidemiology and Multiple Sclerosis

multiple sclerosis, epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, health administrative data, drug safety and effectiveness, disease-modifying drugs for multiple sclerosis, gut microbiome, pediatric-onset MS, observational studies, real-world data, post-marketing research,

Karen Bartlett

Karen Bartlett

Professor

Occupational and Environmental Health Division

Cryptococcus gattii, occupational hygiene, environmental hygiene, mould, fungi, indoor environmental quality, environmental toxicology, public health toxicology, bioaerosols