Interdisciplinary Studies
Interdisciplinary Studies allows students to design their own graduate program by bringing together three or four qualified faculty from different departments or units. Because there are no constraints on which fields are brought together, there are virtually no two students in the same subfield.
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Faculty Members in Interdisciplinary Studies
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Kerr, Thomas | harm reduction, injection drug users, HIV / AIDS, safe injection site, addiction, HIV/AIDS, injection drug use, health policy and service evaluation, and community-based research methods |
| Kornelsen, Jude | providing an evidence base to inform decisions on the planning of rural maternity services; advancing our understanding of women |
| Kuhl, David | understanding compassion fatigue/vicarious trauma, burnout, moral distress, grief, and psychological well being in health care providers |
| Kwon, Brian | Spinal cord injury |
| Loock, Christine Ann | Brain, Behaviour & Development; Social Pediatrics; Health Inequities; Child-health medical-home: children/families, integration / patient care / community services; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders; Pediatric Sleep Disorders |
| Ogrodniczuk, John | Mental Health and Society; Psychodynamic Psychotherapy; Personality Disorders; Group Psychotherapy; Men’s Mental Health; Alexithymia; Athletes |
| Shannon, Kate | Ethical, legal, and social issues in health, health systems and health research; Population health interventions; Social oppression and marginalization; equitable sexual health care; reproductive care and justice; structural interventions & policy evaluation; health equity & social justice |
| Vedam, Saraswathi | Gestation / Parturition; Human Rights and Liberties, Collective Rights; Right and Access to Information; Home Care Services; Law and Health; Social Contract and Social Justice; Community Health / Public Health; Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition; Family and Child Services; Home Birth; Place of Birth; Provider Attitudes; Respectful Maternity Care; Midwifery; Interprofessional relationships; Person-Centered Care; Patient Autonomy; Institutional Racism in Maternity Care; Maternal and Newborn Outcomes; Maternity care for diverse populations; Transdisciplinary engagement in health care; Mistreatment |
