The Social Exposome Cluster facilitates interdisciplinary collaborations to examine the social and environmental factors that have lasting impacts on our health and well-being and the biological processes in the body by which they do so (referred to as “biological embedding”). The ultimate goal is to use this knowledge to develop and implement policies and interventions to reduce health inequities and improve health outcomes across the life course.
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Black, Jennifer | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human nutrition and dietetics; Community Health / Public Health; food banks; food environments; Nutrition; Public health; school food environments; social determinants of health |
| Campbell, Trevor | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | automated, scalable Bayesian inference algorithms; Bayesian nonparametrics; streaming data; Bayesian theory; Probabilistic Inference; computational statistics; large-scale data; Automated, scalable Bayesian inference algorithms, Bayesian nonparametrics, Bayesian theory, Computational statistics, Large-scale data, Probabilistic inference, Streaming data |
| Carlsten, Christopher | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Environment and Respiratory Diseases |
| Conklin, Annalijn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Public health nutrition policy; Other basic medicine and life sciences; Social Determinants of Dietary and Metabolic Disorders; social nutritional epidemiology; women's health; Health Equity; Chronic Diseases in Elderly; Obesity; CVD risk factors; healthy ageing; food and nutrition policy; Indigenous health; Community Health / Public Health; disease management evaluation; healthcare quality improvement |
| DeLongis, Anita | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Psychology and cognitive sciences; social determinants of health; chronic illness; coping; couples; families; health; Health Psychology; marriage; social support; stress |
| Devlin, Angela | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human nutrition and dietetics; Human reproduction and development sciences; Pathology (except oral pathology); cardiovascular disease; Children; developmental programming; Diabetes; Obesity |
| Finlay, B Brett | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Infectious agents, bacteria, microbial infections and how humans react to it |
| Frangou, Sophia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | the study of the human brain in health and disease |
| Green, David | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Antibiotic Resistance, Infectious Disease, Epidemiology, Determinants of the wage and employment structure bridging between macro labour and micro labour identification issues |
| Guhn, Martin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Developmental psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; social context and child development/well-being; Population health; social determinants of health |
| Henderson, Sarah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Environmental and occupational health and safety; wildfire smoke; air pollution; Extreme weather events; environmental health; radon gas; Food safety; Water quality |
| Huan, Tao | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics, n.e.c.; Analytical spectrometry; Metabolomics; Separation science; Cancer progression and metastasis; Human nutrition and metabolism; Metabolomics; Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; Machine Learning; Bioinformatics |
| Jenkins, Emily | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | optimizing mental health and substance use outcomes; collaborative mental health promotion strategies; health services and policy development and redesign; knowledge translation approaches; healthy public policy development |
| Jessri, Mahsa | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Public health nutrition policy; Human nutrition and dietetics, n.e.c.; Nutritional Epidemiology; Population and Public Health; Dietary Assessment and Surveillance; Food and Nutrition Policies; Lifestyle Determinants and Burden of Disease; Artificial Intelligence; Web-based Calculators; Child and Youth Health; Dietary Pattern Modeling; predictive analytics; Diet Quality and Dietary Guidelines; Ultra- and Highly-Processed Foods; Food and Beverage Marketing to Children; Front of Package Food Labelling; Microsimulation; Health Administrative Databases; Dietary and Health Data Linkages; Health Equity; Chronic Disease Prevention |
| Karakochuk, Crystal Dawn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human nutrition and dietetics; Nutrition; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Hematology; Biochemical markers of iron status; Clinical dietetics; Determinants and causes of anemia; Inherited blood disorders (sickle cell, thalassemia, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency); International nutrition; Maternal and child nutrition; Micronutrients (namely iron, folic acid, and zinc); Risk-benefit of micronutrient supplementation |
| Kobor, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biochemistry; Bioinformatics; Genetic medicine; Genomics; Chromatin Biology; Epigenetics; molecular biology; Social Epigenetics |
| Lamers, Yvonne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human nutrition and dietetics; Nutrition; Nutrients; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition; Clinical Chemistry; Maternal and child health; Micronutrients; Newborn Screening; Nutritional Biochemistry; Nutritional Biomarker; Periconceptional folic acid supplementation; Pregnancy; Prenatal Supplements; Toddler Nutrition; Vitamins |
| Lange, Philipp | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Genomics; Pathology (except oral pathology); Bioinformatics; Cell Signaling and Cancer; mass spectrometry; pediatric cancer; personalized medicine; post translational protein modification; Proteomics |
| LeMoult, Joelle | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; depression and psychobiological responses to stress; understanding how depression develops and unfolds across the lifespan |
| Pliska, Benjamin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Dentistry and oral health; Sleep and Sleep Disorders; Oro-Dental Disorders; Facial growth and development; sleep medicine |
| Poon, Brenda | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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 |
| Turvey, Stuart | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Immunology; Microbiology; Asthma; Immune System; Immunodeficiencies; Microbiome cohort studies; Precision Medicine; Primary Immune Deficiencies |
| Vadeboncoeur, Jennifer | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | cultural-historical psychology, child/parent relationships, student/ teacher relationships, play and performance based learning, bridging school and out of school contexts for learning, Alternative schooling and pedagogies, Critical theory, Discourse and critical discourse analysis, ethnography, Qualitative research, Socially constructing knowledge and identity, Sociocultural approaches to learning and teaching, Young people placed |
| van Jaarsveld, Danielle | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | call centre management practices; employer-employee relations, Call centre management practices, employer-employee relationship, employment policy, labour market analysis, public sector collective bargaining, work and employment relations |
| Weis, Dominique | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Isotope geochemistry; Environmental geochemistry; Earth Structure and Composition; Geodynamics; Chemical Pollutants; Earth Sciences; Environmental geochemistry; Geochemistry; High-precision/sensitivity geochemical analyses; Indigenous studies; Oceanic islands and mantle plumes |