Health Administration
Health Administration provides clinicians, managers and researchers who are seeking solutions to today’s complex health delivery issues with the educational and professional foundation skills required for leadership in health care. It combines health systems, policies and management.
Faculty Members
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Anis, Aslam | cost effectiveness of AIDS treatments; drug assessments – pharmacoeconomics; health care economics; health regulations, Health economics, rhematoid arthritis, biologic therapies |
| Bansback, Nick | inform policies and practices in health through the application of |
| Bartlett, Karen Hastings | Indoor air quality, bioaerosol exposures in work and community environments, particularly in rural or agricultural settings |
| Black, Charlyn | Health Care Organization, Health Information Systems, Quality, effectiveness and outcomes of health care, Knowledge translation, Population health, Graduate education, Health services and policy research |
| Brauer, Michael | Environmental Health, Community Health / Public Health, air pollution, built environment, environmental epidemiology, remote sensing, healthy cities |
| Bryan, Stirling | Economics of health care, policy, from UK |
| Burgess, Michael | Genetics and Ethics, Ethics and Health, Applied Ethics, Individual and Collective Ethics, Participatory research, Public deliberation, Health Policy, Science Policy, Deliberative Democracy |
| Buxton, Jane | Epidemiology, harm reduction |
| Cox, Susan | Applied Ethics, Interpersonal Communication, Community Health / Public Health, Genetics and Ethics, Learning and Development Approaches, Health Promotion, Literary or Artistic Work Dissemination or Reception Contexts, narratives of health and illness, grief, loss, death and dying, research ethics/ethics in research, arts and health education, arts and healing, arts-based approaches to research, visual methods |
| Davies, Hugh William | Occupational Safety and Health, Community Health / Public Health, Environmental Health, Occupational Health, Exposure Assessment, Noise and Health, Antineoplastic drug hazards |
| Dummer, Trevor | health geography, cancer prevention, environmental exposures, health inequalities, geographic information science, obesity, risk factors, Environmental epidemiology and environment and health interactions, with specific emphasis on cancer etiology and cancer prevention |
| Frank, Erica | Preventive medicine, Free accredited education |
| Frank, Lawrence | health and environmental impacts of transportation and urban planning (land use) decisions. transportation, transit, public health, sustainability, sprawl, neighbourhood walkability, physical activity, urban planning, Sustainable transportation |
| Gill, John | Clinical outcomes in kidney transplant patients; Access to kidney transplantation; Living donor transplantation; Cardiovascular risk in transplant patients |
| Guhn, Martin | wellbeing of children and youth; social determinants of developmental health; social and cultural community and neighborhood effects on child development; music and emotion |
| Ho, Anita | Human right issues, cross-cultural ethics, health-care access and disparity, professional-patient relationship, minority care experience, decision-making models, and various concepts of autonomy |
| Janssen, Patricia | Lifestyle Determinants and Health, Social Determinants of Health, Perinatal Period, Gestation / Parturition, maternal child health, health of marginalized women, mobile health for pregnancy and parenting |
| Kassam, Rosemin | global health, access and use of medicines and health services among vulnerable populations, community readiness, improving patient/client self-efficacy to engage effectively in their health care processes and decision-making, implementation and evaluation of patient care and health promotion programs, and capacity building of current and future frontline health professionals |
| Kazanjian, Arminee | Cancer Survivorship, Knowledge Exchange and, Translation, Psychosocial oncology, Palliative care in cross-cultural context, Vulnerable populations, including women |
| Kershaw, Paul | child care, parental leave, work-life balance, social policy, social citizenship, responsibilities and rights, gender and politics, income assistance, child benefit package, social inclusion, neighbourhood effects on child development, Canadian federalism, Citizenship, detrimants of Health, social care |
| Koehoorn, Mieke | Occupational health, injury, compensation policies, Worksafe BC, Gender Work and Health |
| Kopec, Jacek Andrzej | Epidemiology, Arthritis / Osteo-Arthritis |
| Krausz, Reinhard | addiction, complex concurrent disorders, E -Mental Health, Internet based healthcare, vulnerable urban populaton, Psychosis, opiate addiction, e-mental health, internet based healthcare, vulnerbale urban population, trauma, homelessness and mental health |
| Law, Michael | Pharmacoeconomics, Pharmacoepidemiology, Health Policies, Global Health and Emerging Diseases, Pharmaceutical policy, Program evaluation, Observational studies, Global Health, Health Policy |
| Lovato, Chris | Health promotion, population health and program evaluation, impact of health programs and policies, particularly in the areas of cancer prevention and health services |
| MacNab, Ying | Bayesian paradigm, foundations of statistics, space-time statistics, structured statistical models, taxonomic models, item response theory, inductive reasoning, Bayesian burden of disease methodology, Geometics, Health service and population health geoinformation system, and meta-data innovation in medical and health research |
| Manges, Amee | Epidemiology, Molecular epidemiology, Public health |
| Masse, Louise | Obesity, Health Promotion, Nutrition, Films, Membranes and Multiphase Polymers, Childhood obesity with specific interests in prevention and treatment using lifestyle modification, Physical Activity |
| McGrail, Kimberlyn | aging and health care services use; health care costs; health care financing; primary care; health care policy, Variations in health care services use across patients, providers and regions, and their relationship to population health, Aging and the use of health and social services, Personal, economic, and social factors that produce health at an individual and population level, and the role of the health care system in that process |
| McLeod, Christopher | occupational heath and the social epidemiology of the working life course. |
| Mitton, Craig | Health Policies, Health care resource allocation |
| Morgan, Steven | Health Policies, Access to medicines, Pharmacare, Pharmaceutical pricing, Prescribing appropriateness |
| Murphy, Rachel | Nutrition, Nutrition and Cancer, Community Health / Public Health, Obesity, Cancer prevention, Aging |
| Naus, Monika | Communicable disease outbreak, control, vaccine, immunization, tuberculosis |
| Oberlander, Timothy | Population epidemiological studies that characterize neurodevelopmental pathways that reflect risk, resiliency and developmental plasticity |
| Oberle, Eva | |
| Ogilvie, Gina | Sexually transmitted infections, human papillomavirus, HIV in women and care for marginalized populations |
| Oviedo-Joekes, Eugenia | public health and substance use, with a focus on testing alternative approaches to expand and diversify the treatments offered; treatment needs of patients |
| Patrick, David | Antibiotics and Resistance, Pharmacoepidemiology, Response to Emerging Infectious Diseases, Responding to the Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance at Population Level |
| Poon, Brenda | Population-level early identification and early intervention for children with special needs; Complex systems of coordinated service delivery and supports; Family-centered services; Integrated child health information systems; Community-based research regarding social determinants of children |
| Sadatsafavi, Mohsen | respiratory medicine with the aim of improving patient outcomes and the efficiency of health care delivery through evidence-informed decision making at all levels of care |
| Schechter, Martin | HIV/AIDS |
| Silver, David | Ethics |
| Singer, Joel | Clinical trial methodology and clinical trials in HIV/AIDS |
| Sobolev, Boris | Health care, access, epidemiology, biostatistics, registries, simulation, policy evaluation, Methodology for analysis of waiting times, risk of adverse events while awaiting elective surgery, and the use of simulation experiments in policy evaluation |
| Spiegel, Jerry | Global health, International health, environmental health, Cuba, Latin America, Effects of globalization on health, ecosystem approaches to human health, understanding and addressing influences of physical and social environments on health, global health and human security, the economic evaluation of interventions, and health and equity in Latin America |
| Spinelli, John | cancer prevention, risk factors, biostatistical and epidemiologic methods, cancer and the environment, pesticides and cancer, etiology of lymphoma, multiple myeloma and leukemia, etiology of breast cancer, Identification of environmental and genetic risk factors for cancer and in the interaction between genes and the environment, lymphoma |
| Spittal, Patricia | Indigenous/Aboriginal Health, HIV work in Uganda, |
| Steel, Daniel | Addiction, Diversity, ethics, Opioid crisis, Clinical trials, Equity, Philosophy / Ethics, philosophy of science, Values and science risk, Precautionary principle |
| Sutherland, Jason | Health care funding, patient outcomes, Development of methods for monitoring and evaluating health system performance, Measuring burden of illness, Exploring causes and consequences of variations in health system utilization and funding |