Health Research Unit members can provide expertise to government and community organizations to carry out population health research.
Staff
Ann Ryan, MSc
Manager, Health Research Unit
Telephone #: 709-777-8385
Email:
annr@mun.ca
Charlene Simmonds, PhD
Sara Heath, MSc (Candidate)
Medical Researcher I (Database Manager)
Telephone #: 709-777-6218
Email:
sheath@mun.ca
Janelle Hippe, PhD (Candidate)
Learners and Locations Project Co-ordinator
Telephone #: 709-777-6894
Faculty Members and Research Interests:
Rick Audas, BBA, MBA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Statistics and Economics
RESEARCH INTERESTS: health, labour, education, human resource issues in health care settings
Bill Bavington, MD, MPH, FRCPC
RESEARCH INTERESTS: prevention and control of communicable diseases, medical education, public health policy and practice
Natalie Beausoleil, BA, MA, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Science and Health
RESEARCH INTERESTS: health and aging, body image, community arts, women's health, youth's perceptions of health and physical activity, qualitative research methodologies
Sharon Buehler, PhD
Honorary Research Professor of Epidemiology (Retired)
RESEARCH INTERESTS: privacy in research, research ethics, cancer, survey methodology
Catherine Donovan, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Public Health
RESEARCH INTERESTS: health promotion, chronic disease prevention, communicable diseases, environmental issues.
Veeresh Gadag, MSc, MPhil, PhD
Director of Health Research Unit
RESEARCH INTERESTS: population health, stochastic processes, biostatistics, data analysis
Diana Gustafson, RN, MEd, PhD
Assistant Professor of Social Science and Health
RESEARCH INTERESTS: health related equity and social justice issues
Chris Kaposy, BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Care Ethics
Email:
christopher.kaposy@med.mun.ca
RESEARCH INTERESTS: ethical and policy issues in abortion care, neuroethics, ethics of vaccine research and vaccination programs, disability theory and disability rights
Anne Kearney, BN, MHSc, PhD
Assistant Professor of Community Health and Humanities
RESEARCH INTERESTS: breast screening, interprofessional education and collaboration, primary health care reform, health of marginalized groups
Victor Maddalena, BN, MHSA, PhD
Assistant Professor in Health Policy and Health Service Deliver
RESEARCH INTERESTS: health policy, vulnerable population, health human resources, governance and accountability, end of life care
Maria Mathews, BSc, BA, MHSA, PhD
Associate Professor of Health Policy/Health Care Delivery
Research Interests: outcome evaluation, utilization management, primary care, urban/rural differences
Doreen Neville, BN, MSc, SM, ScD – on leave
Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Delivery (on Leave)
Email:
dneville@mun.ca
RESEARCH INTERESTS: e-health technologies (electronic health records, telehealth), health care delivery
Daryl Pullman, BEd, MA, PhD
Professor of Medical Ethics
RESEARCH INTERESTS: research ethics, ethics and aging, privacy, issues related to genetic research and therapy, human dignity and moral epistemology
Barbara Roebothan, RDt, PhD
Associate Professor of Community Health (Dietetics/Nutrition)
Email:
broeboth@mun.ca
RESEARCH INTERESTS: community nutrition, dietary intake surveys.
Martha Traverso-Yèpez, PhD
Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair in Health Promotion and Community Development
RESEARCH INTERESTS: social psychology of the health-illness process, health promotion and community action, critical approaches to health care and intervention, qualitative research methods, community-based participatory research.
James Valcour, BSc, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Peter Wang, PhD
RESEARCH INTERESTS: cancer epidemiology, arthritis epidemiology, disability, statistics modeling, hepatitis epidemiology, quality of life, survey methods
Roy West, MSc, PhD
Honorary Research Professor of Epidemiology and Microbiology
Email:
roywest@mun.ca
RESEARCH INTERESTS: communicable disease control, population-based epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, changing the health system, managing by outcomes
Wendy Young, PhD
Canada Research Chair in Healthy Aging
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Researching healthy aging in healthy communities, e-health.