Research Expertise
Members of the media who are seeking expert comment may refer to the table below as it highlights the research interests of each faculty member. To connect with the most appropriate researcher, please contact Nisa Drozdowski, Communications and Media Associate.
Nisa Drozdowski
Communications and Media Associate
P: 780-492-1982
E: nisa.drozdowski@ualberta.ca
| Name | Research Interests |
| Ashbolt, Nicholas | amoebae, biofilms, community acquired pneumonia, in-premise plumbing microbiome, Legionella-like bacteria, quantitative microbial risk assessment, water-based pathogen removal |
| Chatwood, Susan | circumpolar health, health systems , health systems stewardship, determinants of health in the Arctic |
| Dinu, Irina | bioinformatics, biological pathways, biostatistics, DNA microarray, gene set analysis, genomic, proteomic, Metabolomic studies, statistical genetics |
| Eurich, Dean |
diabetes, health outcomes, morbidity, mortality, pneumonia, chronic disease, epidemiology, health systems and services, pharmacoepidemiology, drug use and drug policy, aboriginal health |
| Francescutti, Louis |
governance, injury, knowledge translation, media advocacy, policy development, public health communication, quality control, disaster medicine, emergency medicine, preventative medicine, palliative carec |
| Hanington, Patrick | biological hazards, environmental health, global health, immunology, infectious disease, parasitology, schistosomiasis |
| Harper, Sherilee | climate change and health, climate change adaptation, Indigenous peoples' health, community-led research, community-led participatory research, social and environmental epidemiology, mixed research methods, Inuit Nunangat, Uganda, Peru |
| Hodgins, Stephen | maternal-newborn-child health, private sector service providers, community health workers, "scale-up" |
| Hyshka, Elaine | drug and alcohol policy, engaged scholarship, harm reduction, health ethics law and policy, health services research, illicit substance use, program evaluation, substance use services |
| Jhangri, Gian | applications of computers, biostatistics, design and analysis of clinical trials, occupational cancer case-control studies, statistical/epidemiological methods, survival analysis |
| Johnson, Jeff | diabetes, epidemiology, health economics, health outcomes, health services, HRQL and population health, pharmacoeconomics, pharmacoepidemiology |
| Johnson, Shanthi | falls/injury prevention, seniors' health, home and community care, long term care, nutrition and exercise intervention, health promotion, health system improvement, population health, rural health, global health |
| Maximova, Katerina | cardiovascular disease, children and adolescents, epidemiology, health promotion, public health, prevention, risk factors |
| Menon, Dev |
health technology assessment, social values in health care, resource allocation decision-making, technology adoption |
| Montesanti, Stephanie |
health policy intervention and analysis, patient, public and community engagement, primary health care delivery for vulnerable populations, knowledge exchange and research use in health policy decisions, Indigenous health, women's health promotion |
| Mumtaz, Zubia |
Global health, reproductive and maternal health, gender and class inequities, social determinants of health, health systems and maternal health policy, community health workers and midwives, quantative, qualitative research methods, mixed methods research |
| Neumann, Norm | environment, drinking water, molecular epidemiology, pollution, prions, source tracking, waterborne pathogens |
| Nykiforuk, Candace |
chronic disease prevention, community based research, community environment, health geography, health policy, knowledge exchange, tobacco control, physical activity, play, rural and remote communities |
| Ohinmaa, Arto | CEA, CBA, CUA, cost projections, economics of public health, health economics, health related quality of life, health technology assessment, telemedicine and telehealth |
| Otto, Simon |
epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance and foodborne pathogens in the farm-to-fork continuum; one health - surveillance, networks, and ecosystems; animal health surveillance |
| Pabayo, Roman | social epidemiology, social determinants of health, social and health inequalities, social-economic contextual factors, neighborhoods |
| Raine, Kim | community health, health promotion, nutrition, obesity, policy, public health, qualitative research |
| Senthilselvan, Sentil | analysis of survival data, clustered data, longitudinal and multilevel data, asthma epidemiology, biostatistics, genetic epidemiology, health of agricultural workers, latent class models, random effects models |
| Spitzer, Denise | migration, intersectionality, global health, participatory research, qualitative research, visual storytelling, impact of neoliberal globalization and policies on health and well-being |
| Springett, Jane | collaborative working, ecological sustainability and health, healthy cities and communities, participatory action research and evaluation, participatory community-based practice, reflexivity, socio-ecological approaches to health promotion |
| Storey, Kate |
chronic disease prevention, community based research, health promotion, implementation science, child health, knowledge translation, nutrition, obesity, public health, qualitative methods, school health |
| Veugelers, Paul | childhood obesity, epidemiology, health policy, nutrition, population based research, public health, school health |
| Voaklander, Donald |
Injury prevention |
| Wild, Cam | addictions research, mental health research, etiology, prevention and treatment, problem drinking, injection drug use, smoking, comorbid addictions, mental disorders, treatment systems, social policy |
| Yamamoto, Shelby |
climate change, environmental health, epidemiology, infectious disease, vulnerable populations |
| Yanow, Stephanie | diagnosis, drug resistance, host: parasite interactions, infectious disease, molecular biology, malaria, parasitology, pregnancy, public health |
| Yasui, Yutaka | bioinformatics, biomarkers, biostatistics, cancer epidemiology, epidemiologic methods, health inequality, public health |
| Yuan, Yan | biostatistical methods, cancer epidemiology, classification methods, model evaluation, statistical application, statistical prediction |