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AHMED, Rukhsana »


Ph.D.
Assistant professor
Faculty of Arts
Communication

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3834)
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Health communication is a convergent discipline with multiple actors, people, organizations, and mass media communicating health related messages. These messages are mediated through various socio-cultural, political, and economic factors. I am particularly interested in the ways systems of beliefs, values, actions, and symbols that are shared by people and social groups and that differ among them influence communication in health care interactions.

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English only, Bengali

BRUNET, Jennifer »


Assistant professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3068)
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Dr. Brunet’s research addresses the promotion of mental and physical health through physical activity in diverse populations. Her research is grounded in various motivational and social cognitive theories and she use mixed methods to coalesce the strengths of quantitative and qualitative approaches to research.

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GILES, Audrey R. »


Assistant Professor
Assistant professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2988)
Home: 613-845-0092
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Dr. Giles' research examines Aboriginal people's (though especially women's) participation in physical activity, sport, and recreation in the NWT, Nunavut, and Northern Alberta. Her expertise pertains to traditional games, gender, "tradition," and drowning prevention. Sport for development in Aboriginal communities.

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English only, Intermediate/Advanced French

LIPPEL, Katherine »


Chairholder and Professor
Full professor
Faculty of Law, Civil Section

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3261)
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Website http://www.droitcivil.uottawa.ca/chairohslaw

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Specialized in occupational health and safety law including issues related to workers' compensation, disability prevention, return to work, prevention of work accidents and occupational disease, precarious employment and occupational health and safety, women's working condition in relation to occupational health and safety, and legal issues relating to psychological harassment, mental health problems and musculo-skeletal disorders relating to work.

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English and French , Spanish; espagnol

MOREAU, Denise »


Assistant professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Nursing

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8306)
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Santé des femmes, surtout des femmes francophones en situation minoritaire,  les représentations et les pratiques de la maternité, l'allaitement maternel,la stratégie de communication en promotion de la santé.

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POLOMENO, Viola »


Viola Polomeno

Nurse Clinician Researcher
Assistant professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Nursing

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8736)
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Known as The Love Nurse"; specialized in perinatal sexuality; the intimacy of the parenting couple during the perinatal period (preconception, normal and at-risk pregnancy, labor and delivery, parenting, breastfeeding); francophone parenting couples in a minority situation (mothers and fathers); sexuality and health care; the training of health care professionals in perinatal sexuality and sexuality and health care. 

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