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Carol Amaratunga

 

OWHC Chair in Women’s Health, University of Ottawa.  Dr. Amaratunga’s research interests include gender and health, women’s health and caregiving, gender and disaster management, with a focus on rural, coastal and remote populations.

Women’s Health Research Unit
Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa
221 - 1 Stewart St.
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 Canada
www.whru.uottawa.ca

carol.amaratunga@uottawa.ca

 

Neil Andersson

Director of CIET Canada in Ottawa and Principal Scientist at the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa.  Dr. Andersson has three decades of experience designing, implementing and managing evidence-based health planning initiatives.

CIET Canada
319 - 1 Stewart St.
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 Canada
http://www.iph.uottawa.ca/eng/about/anderson.html

 

neil@ciet.org

Toba Bryant

Assistant Professor of Sociology at York University.  Dr. Bryant holds a PhD in Public Policy and has published extensively on health and housing policy, social determinants of health and on the welfare state.

Dept. of Sociology, York University
2060 Vari Hall
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada
http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/tbryant

 

toba.bryant@sympatico.ca

Margaret Condon

Vancouver-based consultant recently retired from the Social Planning and Research Council of BC.  Ms. Condon works in the area of community-based social research and community development, with a focus on homelessness and affordable housing.

SSP Consulting
1745 Napier Street
Vancouver, BC  V5L 2N1 Canada

 

margaretcondon@shaw.ca

Jennifer Cushon

PhD candidate in the Dept. of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan.  Recently, Ms. Cushon received a CIHR Doctoral Research Award to study the impact of globalization on the health of low-income children in Saskatoon, SK.

Dept of Community Health & Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan
107 Wiggins Road
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5 Canada

 

jac834@mail.usask.ca

Kristin Good

Assistant Professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University.  Dr. Good’s current research concerns the role of municipalities in ethno-cultural relations in Canada.  Currently, she is working on a book manuscript that compares the role of municipalities in the Greater Toronto Area and the Greater Vancouver Regional District in multiculturalism policy development and immigrant settlement.

Dept. of Political Science, Dalhousie University
301 - 6299 South Street
Halifax, NS B3H 4H6 Canada
http://politicalscience.dal.ca/bio/k_good.htm

 

kristin.good@dal.ca

Clyde Hertzman

Director, Human Early Learning Partnership at UBC and Canada Research Chair in Population Health and Human Development.  HELP has developed into a unique research network that integrates behavioural and social sciences with biomedical sciences to study life course development, focusing on early child development.

Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)
University of British Columbia
4th Floor, Library Processing Centre
2206 East Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z3 Canada
http://www.earlylearning.ubc.ca/ClydeHertzman.htm

 

clyde.hertzman@ubc.ca

Jody Heymann

Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Social Policy and founding director of the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy. Dr Heymann is a professor in the Faculties of Medicine and Arts at McGill University, as well as founding director of the Project on Global Working Families and founding chair of the Initiative on Work, Family, and Democracy.

Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University
Charles Meredith House, 1130 Pine Avenue West
Montreal, QC H3A 1A3
http://www.mcgill.ca/ihsp/

 

jody.heymann@mcgill.ca

Elizabeth Kristjansson

Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Ottawa.  Dr. Kristjansson is a health measurement expert whose research interests focus on psychometrics, population health, food insecurity, health and social indicators and the spatial dimensions of health inequalities.

School of Psychology, University of Ottawa
401C Montpetit Hall
125 University
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 Canada
http://www.iph.uottawa.ca/eng/about/kristjansson.html

 

kristjan@uottawa.ca

Ronald Labonte

Canada Research Chair in Globalization/Health Equity at the Institute of Population Health; Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa; and Adjunct Professor, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan.  Professor Labonte holds degrees in English & Creative Writing, Adult Education & Communication Theory, and Sociology. Professor Labonte has chaired the Globalization Knowledge Network for the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. He has written extensively on issues of health promotion, public health, community development, quality of life and all aspects of globalization and health.

Globalization and Health Equity Unit
Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa
216 - 1 Stewart St.
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 Canada
http://www.globalhealthequity.ca/about/labonte.shtml

 

rlabonte@uottawa.ca

Heather Maclean

Director of the Women’s College Research Institute at University of Toronto. Dr. Maclean's academic interests lie in women's health and health promotion.  She continues to lead WCRI participation in the multinational Globalization, Gender and Health project. 

Women's College Research Institute
790 Bay St., 7th Floor
Toronto, ON M5G 1N8 Canada
http://www.womensresearch.ca/people/faculty/maclean.php

 

h.maclean@utoronto.ca

Thomas McIntosh

Director of the CPRN Health Network and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Regina.   Dr. McIntosh’s research interests include the political economy of public policy, intergovernmental relations and federalism, governance and policy development.

Dept of Political Science, University of Regina
3737 Wascana Parkway
Regina, SK S4S 0A2 Canada
http://www.uregina.ca/spheru/Faculty%20Pages/McIntosh%20%20HomePage.html

 

tmcintosh@cprn.org

Judith McKenzie

Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Guelph.  Dr. McKenzie’s research interests include environmental policy, mental health policy, social justice issues and Canadian politics.  Dr. McKenzie leads the Toronto arm of the Health, Governance and Citizenship Project.

Dept of Political Science, University of Guelph
537 MacKinnon Building
Guelph, ON N1G 2W1 Canada
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~judith/

 

judith@uoguelph.ca

Nazeem Muhajarine

Professor and Chair in Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan and a research faculty member in the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit.  Dr. Muhajarine’s current research includes studies on the impact of family and neighbourhood contexts on young children’s health and educational outcomes, and evaluations of early childhood intervention programmes.

Dept of Community Health & Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan
107 Wiggins Road
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5 Canada
http://www.spheru.ca/Faculty%20Pages/Muhajarine%20%20HomePage.htm

 

nazeem.muhajarine@usask.ca

Karen Murray

Assistant Professor of Political Science at York University.  Dr. Murray’s work draws upon social theory to analyze urban governance institutions and discourses, with a major emphasis on issues pertaining to societal disadvantage.

Faculty of Arts, University of York
Ross Building, S629
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada
http://www.arts.yorku.ca/politics/faculty/murrayk.html

 

murrayk@yorku.ca  

Michael Orsini

Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at University of Ottawa and Principal Scientist, Institute of Population Health.  Dr. Orsini is currently leading a SSHRC-funded study on health social movements in Canada and the U.S., in addition to participating in the qualitative arm of the Globalization and Health of Canadians project.

Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa
Room 9166, Desmarais Building
55 Laurier Ave. E.
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 Canada 
http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/profdetails.asp?login=morsini

 

morsini@uottawa.ca

Aleck Ostry

Canada Research Chair in the Social Determinants of Community Health and Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at University of Victoria. Dr. Ostry is currently director of NETHRN-BC and also conducts a research program on the social determinants of community health.  Dr. Ostry has an MSc. in Health Service Planning, an MA in history and a PhD. in epidemiology.

Department of Geography
University of Victoria
PO BOX 3050 STN CSC
Victoria, BC V8W 3P5 Canada
http://nethrnbc.uvic.ca/our_people/study_director/ostry_a.htm

 

ostry@uvic.ca  

Dennis Raphael

Professor at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University. Dr. Raphael’s research focuses on the health effects of income inequality and poverty, the quality of life of communities and individuals, and the impact of government decisions on Canadians’ health and well-being. 

School of Health Policy & Management, York University
HNES Building, Room 439
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON M3K 1P3Canada
www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael

 

draphael@yorku.ca 

Damaris Rose

Professor at the Urbanisation, Culture and Society Research Centre of l’Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Montréal.  Dr. Rose is an urban and social geographer, whose main research interests are in housing and housing policy, urban social policy, social change in inner city neighbourhoods and the settlement and social integration of international immigrants. 

Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
385 rue Sherbrooke Est
Montréal (Québec) H2X 1E3
Dr. Rose’s personal web page will shortly be available at:
http://www.ucs.inrs.ca/default.asp?p=pers

 

damaris_rose@UCS.INRS.Ca

Nancy Ross

Assistant Professor of Geography and Associate of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University in Montréal.  Dr. Ross is a health geographer who has made important contributions to the bodies of literature linking features of urban environments with population health outcomes in industrialised countries, notably by adding Canadian evidence on the relationship between social contexts and health outcomes in children and adults using multi-level analysis.

Department of Geography, McGill University
805 Sherbrooke St. West
Montreal, QC H3A 2K6
http://www.geog.mcgill.ca/faculty/ross/

 

nancy.ross@staff.mcgill.ca

Michael Sawada

Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Laboratory for Applied Geomatics and GIS at the University of Ottawa.  Dr. Sawada's research is transdisciplinary and has led to the development of new spatial analytical methods that address pressing social and environmental policy issues in Canada such as the need for disaster response and mitigation technologies.

Department of Geography, University of Ottawa
Simard Hall, Room 033
60 University
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 Canada
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/geography/prof/msawada.htm

 

msawada@uottawa.ca

Ted Schrecker

Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, and Principal Scientist at the Institute of Population Health, both at University of Ottawa.  A political scientist by background, Prof. Schrecker has a special interest in globalization and public policy. 

Globalization and Health Equity Unit
Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa
215 - 1 Stewart St.
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada
http://www.globalhealthequity.ca/about/schrecker.shtml

 

tschrecker@sympatico.ca

Andrew Sharpe

Executive Director, Centre for Study of Living Standards, Ottawa and Adjunct Professor of Economics at University of Ottawa.  The Centre’s main objectives are to study trends and determinants of productivity, living standards and economic well-being and to develop policy recommendations to improve the lives of Canadians.

Centre for Study of Living Standards
500 - 111 Sparks St.
Ottawa, ON K1P 5B5 Canada
http://www.csls.ca/board/sharpef.asp


csls2001@yahoo.ca

Jerry Spiegel

Director of Global Health at the Liu Institute for Global Issues and Director of the Centre for International Health, both at the University of British Columbia.   Dr. Spiegel’s research interests include the effects of globalization on health, global health and human security and understanding and addressing influences of physical and social environments on health.

Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia
6476 N W Marine Drive
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 Canada
http://www.bridge.ubc.ca/directory/faculty/detail.asp?user_id=98

jerry.spiegel@ubc.ca

Denise Spitzer

Canada Research Chair in Gender, Migration and Health and affiliated with the Institutes of Women’s Studies and Population Health at the University of Ottawa.  Dr. Spitzer’s research interests include the health of immigrant and refugee women, community-based research and immigration, transnationalism and identity.

Institute of Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa
211 - 30 Stewart St.
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 Canada
http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/womenst/eng/profdetails.asp?login=dspitzer



dspitzer@uottawa.ca

Richard Stren

Professor emeritus of political science at University of Toronto, and former director of the Centre for Urban and Community Studies.  Dr. Stren has published widely on cities in developing countries.

Centre for Urban and Community Studies
455 Spadina Ave
Toronto ON M5S 2G8 Canada
http://www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca/pdfs/researchassociates/shortcvs/STREN_cucs-CV_01-05.pdf

 

restren@gmail.com

Russell Wilkins

Senior Analyst of the Health Analysis and Measurement Group, Statistics Canada.  Mr. Wilkins’ research interests include Inequalities in Health, Postal Code Conversion and Reproductive Outcomes.

Health Analysis and Measurement Group, Statistics Canada
R.H. Coats Building, Room 24A
Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Canada

 

russell.wilkins@statscan.ca

Armine Yalnizyan

Research Associate at Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in Ottawa and Research Director at the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto.  Ms. Yalnizyan is an economist who has written extensively over the past 20 years on trends in labour markets, income distribution, social policy and government budgets.

Community Social Planning Council of Toronto
1001 - 2 Carlton St.
Toronto, ON M5B 1J3 Canada

 

ayalnizyan@cspc.toronto.on.ca

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