Population and Public Health
The School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) offers both research-oriented and professional/course-based graduate programs.
Professional programs
- The Master of Public Health focuses on illness prevention and health promotion and 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 Master of Health Administration is a professional program for clinicians, administrators, researchers and managers who are seeking solutions to today’s complex health delivery issues. Take courses with a multi-disciplinary perspective in health systems, policies and management along with foundational business skills
- The Master of Science in Occupational and Environmental Hygiene (MSc OEH) program provides the skills and knowledge to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and control chemical, physical and biological hazards in workplace and community environments.
Research-based Programs
- Master of Health Science (MHSc) applicants must have an MD or equivalent, including dentistry or veterinary medicine, and will learn skills that can be applied to their academic and clinical interests, bolstering their research abilities and opportunities.
- The Master of Science in Population and Public Health program teaches core knowledge and skills in epidemiological and biostatistical methods and allows students to gain research experience by applying methods to a thesis under the supervision of a faculty member. Students can pursue thesis research in a wide variety of topics related to the health of populations and the delivery of health services.
- The PhD program at SPPH is intended for students who wish to obtain advanced research training that will enable them to conduct independent investigative research.
Explore our Programs in Population and Public Health
Faculty Members in Population and Public Health
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Amri, Michelle | Global Health Ethics; normative nature of health equity; Health Equity; Public Policy; Governance; Global Health; International health |
| 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 |
| Bhatti, Parveen | |
| Black, Charlyn | Public and population health |
| Brauer, Michael | 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 |
| Brussoni, Mariana | 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 |
| Bryan, Stirling | Economics of health care, policy, from UK |
| Cox, Susan | Other medical sciences; Sociology and related studies; Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music), architecture and design |
| Davies, Hugh William | 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 |
| Deering, Kathleen | Medical, health and life sciences |
| 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 |
| Elango, Rajavel | Protein Nutrition, Maternal-Fetal Nutrition, Childhood Malnutrition, Amino Acid Metabolism, Human Nutrition |
| Frank, Erica | Health sciences; Public and population health; Other education; Free education; Preventive Medicine; Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Holocaust studies; Exile Reintegration; Democratization; Intervention Research |
| Gadermann, Anne | Social determinants of health; Housing and homelessness; Quality of |
| Gilbert, Mark | 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 |
| Greyson, Devon | Health-related information practices of youth, parents, and families; Intersection between information practices and health behavior,; Cannabis use decision making in pregnancy and lactation; Vaccine confidence and decision making about vaccination; Disinformation in social media support communities; Online communication among young parents |
| Guhn, Martin | Developmental psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; social context and child development/well-being; Population health; social determinants of health |
| Henderson, Sarah | Environmental and occupational health and safety; wildfire smoke; air pollution; Extreme weather events; environmental health; radon gas; Food safety; Water quality |
| Janssen, Patricia | 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 |
| Joseph, K.S. | Pregnancy complications, preterm birth, fetal growth, infant mortality, neonatal |
| Kalua, Khumbo | 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 | 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 |
| Kassam, Rosemin | Medical, health and life sciences; Child Health, Malnutrition, Adult Chronic Disease, Geriatrics |
| Kazanjian, Arminee | Medical biotechnology; Health systems and policy, equitable access to healthcare; cancer survivorship, psychosocial care |
| 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 |
| Law, Michael | Health care administration; Health sciences; Public and population health; Global Health; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Health Policies; Health Policy; Observational studies; Pharmaceutical policy; Pharmacoeconomics; Pharmacoepidemiology; Program evaluation |
| Lima, Viviane Dias | Aging process; Population health interventions; Health promotion and disease prevention; HIV; Aging; Epidemiology; Statistics; mathematical modelling; prevention strategies for the transmission of HIV; novel intervention strategies to avert HIV disease progression |
| 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 | Health sciences; Immunology; Microbiology; Public and population health; Epidemiology; Molecular epidemiology; Public health |
| Masse, Louise | 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 |
| 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. |
| Milloy, Michael-John | 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 | Health care administration; Health sciences; Public and population health; Health Policies; Health care resource allocation |
| Morgan, Steven | Health policy; Economics of health care; Health services and systems; Access to medicines; Health care policy; Pharmacare; Pharmaceutical pricing; Prescribing appropriateness; Comparative policy analysis |
| Murphy, Rachel | Clinical oncology; Health sciences; Human nutrition and dietetics; Public and population health; Aging; Cancer prevention; Community Health / Public Health; Nutrition; Nutrition and Cancer; Obesity |
| 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 | 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 |
| Ogilvie, Gina | Sexually transmitted infections, human papillomavirus, HIV in women and care for marginalized populations |
| Oviedo-Joekes, Eugenia | Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Substance Use; person-centered care in addiction; injectable opioid agonist treatment; Harm reduction |
| Patrick, David | 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 |
| 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 |
| Puyat, Joseph | Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Epidemiology; Biostatistics and Public Health Practice; Psychopharmacoepidemiology; mental health; Mental Health Services |
| Regier, Dean | theories of behavioral economics, personalized medicine, deliberative public engagement methods to inform healthcare priority setting |
| Schechter, Martin | HIV/AIDS |
| Silver, David | Ethics |
| 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 |
