Javiera Pumarino
Student
Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)
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 |
| Bartlett, Sofia | Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Health equity; Etiology of disease and conditions; Health promotion and disease prevention; Health care safety and quality improvement; Health care effectiveness and outcomes; Patient and citizen engagement research; Knowledge translation and implementation science in health |
| Bhatti, Parveen | Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Environmental determinants of health (including environment-gene interactions); molecular epidemiology of cancer; occupational and environmental epidemiology of cancer; mechanistic studies of exposed populations |
| 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; environmental health; healthy cities; remote sensing |
| Brussoni, Mariana | Developmental psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Population health interventions; Developmental psychology; Children's outdoor play; Risky play; injury prevention; Parenting; health behaviour change; Implementation Science |
| Bryan, Stirling | Economics of health care, policy, from UK |
| Byers, Kaylee | Ecological applications; One Health approach; Other social sciences; one health; Implementation Science; Global Health; Wildlife health; environmental health; health communications; Community-based research; knowledge mobilization |
| Cox, Susan | Other medical sciences; Sociology and related studies; Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music), architecture and design; narratives of health and illness; grief, loss, death and dying; research ethics/ethics in research; arts in health education; scholarship of teaching and learning; qualitative and arts-based approaches to research; visual methods; contemplative inquiry |
| Davies, Hugh | 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; Sexual health inequities, Gender and health, HIV prevention, treatment and care, Sex work, Social/health geography , Gender and violence, Stigma , Community-based research, Novel methodological approaches in epidemiology |
| 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 | Medical, health and life sciences; Media and communications; **NOT currently seeking to recruit new students (2025-25). Lab is currently at capacity.**; Everyday health information behaviours & practices; Population health information interventions; Health mis/dis/malinformation; Vaccine confidence and decision making about vaccination; LGBTQ+ health; Qualitative and mixed methods |
| Guhn, Martin | Developmental psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; social context and child development/well-being; Population health; social determinants of health |
| Gupta, Neeru | relationship between the eye and other health conditions, blinding disease, Eyes and Vision |
| Henderson, Sarah | Environmental and occupational health and safety; wildfire smoke; air pollution; Extreme weather events; environmental health; radon gas; Food safety; Water quality |
| 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); Health promotion and disease prevention; Mobile health (mHealth); Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Electronic health (e-Health); Health information systems (including surveillance); Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs); Global Eye Health; Cluster Randomized Trials ; Implementation Science; AI in Global Health; Community Based Research; Clinical trials; Low and Middle Income countries (LMIC) ; Digital Health Systems; Occupational Health Exminers Miners TB; AI for Clinical Decision Support in Low-Resource Settings; AI for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and Health Equity; Population Based Surveys/ Surveillance; Technology for Front Line Health workers ; social determinants of health |
| 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; Causal Inference, Biostatistics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Data science, Survey data analysis, Multiple sclerosis |