Public and population health

The doctoral (PhD) program in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems creates opportunities for students to develop and strengthen research capabilities and advanced knowledge. Students must plan and complete a doctoral thesis resulting in an original scholarly contribution to knowledge in...

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

The School of Population and Public Health offers a research-oriented PhD program that enables students with a masters degree to advance their knowledge and skills in epidemiological and biostatistical methods. Students will further their research training by applying these methods to independent...

Graduate Certificate in Migration Studies (GCMS)

The certificate focuses on knowledge enhancement in migration and mobilities research through interdisciplinary thinking and engagement. Regardless of your degree program, if you have an interest in migration as a field of research or professional practice, a certificate in Migration Studies can...

Master of Arts in Health, Outdoor and Physical Education (MA)

The Health, Outdoor and Physical Education (HOPE) program will appeal to elementary, middle, and secondary school educators with interests in: integrated/thematic approaches in health promotion and wellness; food and health literacy; mental well being; social and cultural understandings of physical...

Master of Global Health (MGH)

The Master of Global Health is an 20-month interdisciplinary professional program that equips students with the knowledge base, business skills, and experience to meet the workplace demands of an increasingly globalized world. As western Canada’s only standalone professional global health graduate...

Master of Health Leadership and Policy in Seniors Care (MHLP)

The Master of Health Leadership and Policy (MHLP) in Seniors Care is entering a period of reflection and evaluation. As of January 2025, the program is paused and not accepting applications. This pause marks a moment of thoughtful consideration on the future direction of the program, with an...

Master of Public Health (MPH)

The Master of Public Health (MPH) degree integrates learning in epidemiology;��biostatistics;��the social, biological and environmental determinants of health; population health; global health; disease prevention and health systems management with skill-based learning in a practicum setting. The MPH...

Master of Public Health and Master of Science in Nursing (MPH/MSN)

The Master of Public Health and Master of Science in Nursing is a unique dual degree program offered at the University of British Columbia. This program is jointly offered by the School of Population and Public Health and the School of Nursing. Nurses constitute the largest group of professionals...

Master of Science in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems (MSc)

The MSc program in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems provides opportunities for students to broaden their knowledge base and gain research experiences.�� ILSFS students work on diverse and often interdisciplinary research topics that address priority food systems questions and challenges...

Master of Science in Occupational and Environmental Hygiene (MSc)

Offered by the��Occupational and Environmental Health Division��in the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH), this Master of Science program leads to��professional��or��research careers��that make a difference to community and work environments and to people's health. The "occupational and...

Master of Science in Population and Public Health (MSc)

The School of Population and Public Health offers a research-oriented Master of Science degree program. Open to students with a wide range of academic backgrounds, the program enables students to gain core knowledge and skills in epidemiological and biostatistical methods and gain research...

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�� Researchers conducting research in Public and population health

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Afshari, Reza

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Environmental and occupational health and safety; Critical care medicine and emergency medicine; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Epidemiology,; Toxicology,; Pharmacology,; Environment; Risk assessment

Ardern, Clare

Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Electronic health (e-Health); Mobile health (mHealth); Patient and citizen engagement research; Health equity; Physical therapy; Sports medicine; Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Orthopedics; Sex and gender-based analysis; musculoskeletal conditions; Digital health; eHealth; orthopaedics; sports medicine; rehabilitation; meta-science; peer review; research impact

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Bayrampour Basmenj, Hamideh

Midwifery Program, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Electronic health (e-Health); Mobile health (mHealth); Midwifery; Health information systems (including surveillance); Perinatal mental health; Perinatal Anxiety; Pregnancy Outcomes; eHealth; mHealth

Bettinger, Julie

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Public and population health; Epidemiology; Vaccination; Infectious diseases; Health Promotion; Community Health / Public Health; Infectious disease epidemiology; vaccine clinical trials; Vaccine hesitancy; vaccine programs; vaccine safety

Bhatti, Parveen

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Environmental determinants of health (including environment-gene interactions); molecular epidemiology of cancer; occupational and environmental epidemiology of cancer; mechanistic studies of exposed populations

Black, Charlyn

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Public and population health

Boerner, Katelynn

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Pediatrics; Health equity; Gender and health relationship; Sex and gender-based analysis; Health psychology; Clinical child psychology; Developmental psychology; Patient and citizen engagement research; chronic pain; pediatric psychology; Qualitative research; intensive longitudinal methods; sex and gender based analysis; gender diversity; Autism; neurodiversity; clinical psychology; Health Equity; rehabilitation; chronic illness; eating disorders; medical trauma; Health Psychology; Development; Adolescence

Brauer, Michael

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Environmental and occupational health and safety; Health sciences; Public and population health; air pollution; built environment; Community Health / Public Health; environmental health; environmental epidemiology; healthy cities; remote sensing

Bredin, Shannon

School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Medicine, nursing and health curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Psychology, social and behavorial aspects; Indigenous health; Physical education and development curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Health promotion and disease prevention; Motor Behaviour (Motor Expertise, Learning, and Development); Human Performance; Physical Activity; Knowledge Translation and Mobilization; Indigenous Health and Physical Activity; Long-Term Athlete Development; Childhood Development; sport

Brussoni, Mariana

Department of Pediatrics, School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Developmental psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Population health interventions; injury prevention; Children's outdoor play; Risky play; Parenting; health behaviour change; Implementation Science

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Chan, Meingold

Faculty of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellow

Developmental psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Social Epigenetics; Children's socioemotional development; Parenting; Racial/cultural differences; Quantitative methodology

Coombs, Daniel

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Mathematical biology; Cellular immunology; Complex physical systems; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Cell Signaling and Infectious and Immune Diseases; Cell biophysics; Disease models; Epidemiology; Immune cell signalling; Mathematics

Cragg, Jacquelyn

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); data science; open science; Causal inference; Drug Effectiveness; Drug Safety; Epidemiology; neuro-epidemiology; Neurological diseases; Spinal cord injury; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS); multiple sclerosis; Parkinson’s disease

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Davies, Hugh William

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Environmental and occupational health and safety; Health sciences; Public and population health; Antineoplastic drug hazards; Community Health / Public Health; environmental health; Exposure Assessment; Noise and Health; Occupational Health; Occupational Safety and Health

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de Jongh Gonzalez, Olivia

Faculty of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellow

Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Parenting practices and styles; Childhood obesity; Health behavior change; Intervention design, implementation, adherence, effectiveness; mHealth apps / interventions; Quantitative Methods; Statistical analyses

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Everhart, Avery

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health geography; Population geography; Geographic information system (GIS and GPS) applications; Health and community services; Bioinformatics, n.e.c.; Social and cultural geography; Sex and gender-based analysis; Ethical, legal, and social issues in health, health systems and health research; Gender and health relationship; Health information systems (including surveillance); Geographic Information Science; Medical Geography; Demography & Population Studies; Critical Data Studies, Critical GIS & Digital Geographies; Transgender Studies; Intersectionality in Empirical Social Science; Health Services Research & Access to Healthcare; Community-Based Participatory Research; Feminist & Queer Theories; Measuring & Combatting STructural Racism

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Ferrara, Adi

Faculty of Applied Science

Postdoctoral Fellow

Health equity; Environmental, developmental and social factors of youth health; Eradicating health disparities in marginalised populations; 2SLGBTQ+ youth health and healthcare access

Frank, Erica

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health sciences; Public and population health; Other education; Free education; Preventive Medicine; Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Holocaust studies; Exile Reintegration; Democratization; Intervention Research

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Gilbert, Mark

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Public and population health; Development, implementation, evaluation and scale-up of innovative sexual health programs; Gay men’s sexual health, including sexual health literacy; Synergistic and integrated dynamics of infectious diseases, mental illness and other conditions

Guhn, Martin

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Developmental psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; social context and child development/well-being; Population health; social determinants of health

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Hassan, Eman

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Population health interventions; Social sciences; Access and quality of palliative and end of life care; Quality of end of life; Population health outcomes

Henderson, Sarah

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Environmental and occupational health and safety; wildfire smoke; air pollution; Extreme weather events; environmental health; radon gas; Food safety; Water quality

Hirani, Saima

School of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Mental health nursing; Social sciences; mental health; Mental health promotion; psychosocial interventions; Vulnerable Groups; social support; resilience

Hoekstra, Femke

Division of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Patient and citizen engagement research; Health promotion and disease prevention; Other social sciences; Implementation Science; Rural Health; Virtual health innovation; Research partnerships; Health Promotion; rehabilitation

Hossin, Zakir

Faculty of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellow

Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Maternal and child health; Social and perinatal epidemiology; Life course epidemiology

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Iyamu, Ihoghosa

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Population health interventions; Health promotion and disease prevention; Global health; Mobile health (mHealth)

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Janssen, Patricia

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health sciences; Public and population health; Gestation / Parturition; health of marginalized women; Lifestyle Determinants and Health; maternal child health; mobile health for pregnancy and parenting; Perinatal Period; social determinants of health

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Kalua, Khumbo

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Population health interventions; Infectious diseases; Global health; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Neglected Tropical Eye Diseases; Global Eye Health; Cluster Randomized Trials; Implementation Science; International Global Health; Community Based Research; Clinical trials

Karim, Ehsan

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Biostatistical methods; Survey methodology and analysis; Statistical learning; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Public and population health, n.e.c.; Causal inference; Biostatistics; Statistics; Machine Learning; data science; Survey data analysis; multiple sclerosis

Kim, Eric

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); psychological well-being; Purpose in life / Meaning in life; resilience; Optimism / Hope; Health Psychology; Social Epidemiology; Aging

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Lalji, Fawziah

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Pharmacoepidemiology; Infectious diseases; Immunization; Antibiotics and Resistance; Vaccine preventable diseases

Li, Linda

Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Patient and citizen engagement research; Patient-centered care; Mobile health (mHealth); Health counselling; Health promotion and disease prevention; Physical therapy; Care

Lima, Viviane Dias

Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Aging process; Population health interventions; Health promotion and disease prevention; HIV; STBBIs; Aging; Epidemiology; Statistics; mathematical modelling; Prevention strategies for the transmission of HIV and STBBIs; novel intervention strategies to avert HIV disease progression; Clinical Epidemiology of HIV

Loewen, Peter

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cardiology and circulatory sciences (including cardiovascular disease); Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice; Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Population health interventions; atrial fibrillation; Pharmacoepidemiology; Thrombosis and Embolism; adherence to medication; Cardiovascular diseases; Arrhythmia; Heart Failure; stroke; Health Care Technologies; Professional Practices; Hematology; decision making; clinical prediction rules; hospital pharmacy practice; knowledge translation of evidence to patient care; patient complexiometry; patient decision aids; patient education; pharmacy practice; prediction of stroke and bleeding in atrial fibrillation patients; quality of care, quality drug therapy; Shared decision-making; stroke prevention therapy; use of mobile technology for clinical decision-making

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Manges, Amee

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health sciences; Immunology; Microbiology; Public and population health; Epidemiology; Molecular epidemiology; Public health

Marchand, Kirsten

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Masse, Louise

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health care administration; Health sciences; Public and population health; Childhood obesity with specific interests in prevention and treatment using lifestyle modification; Films, Membranes and Multiphase Polymers; Health Promotion; Nutrition; Obesity; Physical Activity

McDonald, Daniel

Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

High dimensional data analysis; Computational methods in statistics; Statistical theory and modeling; Machine learning; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Methods and models for epidemiological forecasting; Estimation and quantification of prediction risk; Evaluating the predictive abilities of complex dependent data; Application of statistical learning techniques to time series prediction problems; Investigations of cross-validation and the bootstrap for risk estimation

McKay, Heather

Department of Family Practice, Department of Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Population health interventions; Aging process; Social and biological determinants of aging; Health promotion and disease prevention; Prevention, treatment and support of youth health; Medical, health and life sciences; Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Health and community services; Aging Process; Public and Population Health

McKendry, James

Food, Nutrition & Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Musculoskeletal biology and physiology; Health promotion and disease prevention; Aging process; Human nutrition and metabolism; Nutritional physiology; Clinical nutrition; Exercise physiology; Sports nutrition; Kinesiology; Skeletal Muscle; Protein metabolism; Aging; Nutrition; exercise; Sarcopenia; Protein; Muscle Disuse; Stable Isotope Tracers; Omics; Cell Culture; Microscopy

Milloy, Michael-John

Division of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Infectious diseases; Clinical sciences, n.e.c.; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; medical cannabis; overdose; HIV disease; people who use drugs; Substance use disorder

Mitton, Craig

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health care administration; Health sciences; Public and population health; Health Policies; Health care resource allocation

Murphy, Rachel

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Clinical oncology; Health sciences; Human nutrition and dietetics; Public and population health; Aging; Cancer prevention; Community Health / Public Health; Nutrition; Nutrition and Cancer; Obesity

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Nethery, Elizabeth

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Postdoctoral Fellow

Obstetrics and gynecology; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Population health interventions; Women's reproductive health; perinatal epidemiology; Midwifery and obstetrics; Diabetes in pregnancy; Contraception

Norman, Wendy

Department of Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health equity; Health care effectiveness and outcomes; Fertility and maternal health; Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Population health interventions; Health services and systems, n.e.c.; Family planning; Health services and policy research; Contraception; Abortion; Population health equity research; Applied public health and population health intervention research; Health professional scope of practice research

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Oberle, Eva

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Public and population health; Other education; Adolescent Mental Health/ Social-Emotional Wellbeing; Positive youth development; Promoting mental health and wellbeing through schools; Risk and resilience; Research with population-level data; Social and emotional learning in schools

Oviedo-Joekes, Eugenia

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Substance Use; person-centered care in addiction; injectable opioid agonist treatment; Harm reduction

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Patrick, David

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health sciences; Public and population health; Antibiotics and Resistance; Pharmacoepidemiology; Responding to the Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance at Population Level; Response to Emerging Infectious Diseases; Linking Antibiotics in Infancy to Risk of Atopy

Pearce, Margo

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Peebles, Erin

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Health equity; Environmental, developmental and social factors of youth health; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; medical education; equity, diversity, inclusion; social determinants of health