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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

ANGUS, Douglas E. »

Douglas E. ANGUS

Full professor
Telfer School of Management

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4720)
Home: 613-737-1947
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Economic and policy analysis in the health care field. Management issues and evaluation of programs in health care.

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ATTARAN, Amir »

Amir Attaran

Associate Professor
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
Institute of Population Health

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2889)
Cell: 613-276-7687
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E-mail

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International development and foreign aid; international human rights law and particularly how it applies to the war in Afghanistan; global public health in the poorer countries.

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BOURGEAULT, Ivy Lynn »

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault

Professor Health Sciences Program, CIHR/Health Canada Chair in Health Human Resource Policy, Scientific Director of PHIRN & OHHRRN at the University of Ottawa
Full professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
Institute of Population Health

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8614)
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E-mail

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Dr. Bourgeault has garnered an international reputation for her research on health professions, health policy and women’s health. She has published widely in national and international journals and edited volumes on midwifery and maternity care, the migration and integration of internationally educated health workers, primary care delivery, advanced practice nursing, qualitative health research methods, and on complementary and alternative medicine. Other areas of expertise : Health care, Health-service providers, Human-resource management

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BRAND, Kevin »

Dr.
Assistant professor
Institute of Population Health

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1852)
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I specialize in methods for risk assessment and risk management, with a particular focus upon human health risks. I am particularly interested in the science policy interface that mediates between the synthesis of facts and the formulation of policy defining conclusions. Methods of particular interest include uncertainty analysis, applied decision analysis, demography, and health economics. I have applied these types of tools in the context of interpreting animal bioassay evidence in the support of regulatory determinations of chemical safety, and am currently applying demography approaches to the study of summary measures of population health (such as DALYs, QALYs, PEYLLs and alike).

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BROSSEAU, Lucie »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Rehabilitation Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8015)
Home: 819-243-4441
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Mesures en santé. Épidémiologie : études des causes et du pronostic des maladies (étude de l'effet de nouveaux traitements, cochrane systématique). Revues cliniques et essais systématiques.

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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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CHAPUT, Jean-Philippe »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Medicine
Pediatrics

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Healthy active living and obesity research

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CHARTRAND, Larry »

Associate professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3713)
Cell: 819-665-0802
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I take an interdisciplinary approach to Indigenous peoples' issues including work involving Aboriginal rights and Treaty rights as understood from the perspective of Canadian law, International law and Indigenous legal traditions. Main areas of focus currently include Indigenous Identity and citizenship, Metis issues, Treaty interpretation and modern Treaties, Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty, critical Indigenous theory, decolonization Indigenous justice reform, and Indigenous legal traditions. Other areas of interest include Tort law, Constitutional law and International humanitarian law, including Rwandan gacaca courts and transitional law issues.

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CORNEIL, Wayne »

Associate Scientist
Institute of Population Health

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Cell: 613-853-3183
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E-mail, Cell Telephone

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  • Psychosocial aspects of disasters and terrorism
  • Traumatic stress
  • Occupational Health
  • Executive Health
  • Organizational stress

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COYLE, Doug »

Dr
Associate professor
Faculty of Medicine
Epidemiology and Community Medicine

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8690)
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My main area of expertise lies in resource allocation within health care. My research focuses on decisions relating to the cost effectiveness of individual interventions though my interests relate to allocation of resources as a whole.

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DALLAIRE, Christine »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4279)
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Identity issues at the Acadian Games, the Franco-Ontarian Games, the Alberta Francophone Games, the pan-Canadian Francophone Games and the Quebec Games. Discourses of national and minority identities in the context of games or sports events in Canada. Youth political, civic and social engagement through sport.

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DEONANDAN, Raywat »

Dr.
Assistant professor
Faculty of Health Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8377)
Cell: 613-261-0020
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E-mail

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Trends in the impacts and implications of assisted human reproduction technologies. The ethics of reproductive medical tourism (the phenomenon, mostly, of infertile individuals from wealthy nations traveling to less developed nations to acquire reproductive services, such as surrogate mothers). The addressing of preventable blindness in rural India 4. Health education among Aboriginals in the deep interior of the South American rainforest Science education in poorly resourced areas.

I am an acclaimed fiction author (winner of the national book award of the nation of Guyana), and can speak about Canadian, Caribbean and world literature.

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EAST, Jocelyn »

Part-time professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics

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Office: 819-953-5184
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E-mail

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Sport ethics, doping, violence, abuse and harassment, governance issues, Long-term athlete development (LTAD) and ethics, fair-play, inclusion, racism, match-fixing, corruption, safety in sport, Canadian Sport Policy, sport history, unethical behaviors, education, concussion and head injuries, injury prevention, codes of conduct, Quebec history, institutionalization, discrimination.

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EDWARDS, Nancy Christine »

Distinguished Professor / Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine
Full professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
Epidemiology and Community Medicine

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8395)
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Designing and evaluating complex (multi-level, multi-strategy) community health interventions. Substantive areas of interest include fall prevention for seniors, smoking cessation during pregnancy and postpartum, and nurses' involvement in policy in HIV/AIDS programs.

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FOSTER, Angel »

Echo Endowed Chair in Women’s Health Research
Associate professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
Interdisciplinary School of Health sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2316)
Cell: 617-417-9974
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Dr. Angel M. Foster holds a DPhil (doctorate) in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and an AM (master's degree) from Stanford University. She has conducted multi-methods research on women’s health in Canada, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, the Thailand/Burma border, Tunisia, and the United States. Her current research focuses on expanding access to emergency contraception, increasing access to safe, high quality, and affordable abortion services improving the reproductive health training of health service professionals, and Identifying and addressing the reproductive health needs of vulnerable populations including young/unmarried women and refugees/displaced women. She has published more than 40 articles, book chapters, and technical reports on women's health and her first book, Emergency contraception: The story of a global reproductive health technology, was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2012 (co-edited with L.L. Wynn).

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English and French , Arabic

FREEDHOFF, Yoni »

Medical Director, Bariatric Medical Institute
Assistant professor
Faculty of Medicine
Family Medicine

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Office: 613-730-0264
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Website Personal Blog

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E-mail, Office Telephone

Research information:

Obesity, nutrition.

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GAGNON, Sylvain »

Dr.
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of Psychology

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2515)
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E-mail

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Effect of old age on memory. Neuropsychology of aging.

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English and French

GARCIA, Linda »

Director and Associate Dean
Full professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
Interdisciplinary School of Health sciences

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Office: 613-562-5254
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My research focuses on the lived experiences of people with dementia and on the influence this condition can have on human interactions, including those with health providers.

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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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E-mail, Home Telephone, Office Telephone

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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

GRAY, Douglas »

Senior Scientist
Full professor
Faculty of Medicine
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology

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Office: 613-737-7700 x70331
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E-mail

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My laboratory studies the molecular biology of aging and diseases associated with aging (neurodegenerative diseases and cancer). Our primary focus is on the role of declining protein degradation efficiency in aging. Our research makes extensive use of transgenic mouse models, cell culture systems, and live cell imaging.

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GUITARD, Paulette »

Dr.
Associate professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Rehabilitation Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5408
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E-mail

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* Playfulness in adults * The occupational therapist's role in sexuality * University curriculum assessment and training of occupational therapy students. * Fall prevention * Technical aids and the environment

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HARVEY, Jean »

Full professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4277)
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Industrie et politique du sport en contexte de mondialisation. Politique canadienne du sport.

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JAY, Ollie »

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

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4352)
Cell: 613-255-6760
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E-mail

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Predicting limits of human survival and performance in extreme environments (heat, cold, altitude). Developing international standards for safe working environments from a thermal perspective. Control and monitoring of body temperature in newborns and adults during long-term surgery

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KENNY, Glen »

University of Ottawa Research Chair in Environmental Physiology
Full professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics

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Office: 613 562-5800 4282
Cell: 613-302-9267
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E-mail

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Professor Kenny, PhD, holds the University's Research Chair in Environmental Physiology. His research is aimed at understanding the effects of extreme temperature events (e.g. heat waves) on human health and performance and the thermoregulatory consequences and limitations to physical activity or work performed in extreme environmental conditions. Advancing knowledge on how elderly and individuals with chronic disease respond and adapt to harsh environments and temperature extremes. Generating the best and most up-to-date information to inform heat vulnerable populations of the effect of extreme ambient conditions on their health and safety. Developing effective heat stress prevention and control measures for health specialists and industry managers to protect vulnerable individuals and workers.

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KOSZYCKI, Diana »

Full Professor
Full professor
Faculty of Medicine
Psychiatry

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Office: 613-722-6521 (6886)
Home: 613-526-0476
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E-mail, Home Telephone, Office Telephone

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Causes and treatments of anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder. Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy. Spirituality and mental health. Research on children at risk for anxiety disorders. Women's issues.

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KREWSKI, Daniel »

Director
Full professor
Faculty of Medicine
Institute of Population Health

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Office: 613-562-5381
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Website

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LABONTÉ, Ronald »

Ronald Labonté

Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity
Full professor
Faculty of Medicine
Institute of Population Health

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2288)
Cell: 613-795-1668
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E-mail

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For the past 15 years, Dr. Labonté’s work has focused on the health equity impacts of contemporary globalization. His current research projects include the health equity impacts of global health worker migration and medical tourism, globalization-related pathways of influence on the health of Canadians, health and human rights, comprehensive primary health care reform, trade and health, and global health diplomacy (how health is positioned in foreign policy).

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LAPERRIÈRE, Hélène »

Associate professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Nursing

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E-mail

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My interest focuses on community and participatory approaches with popular civil society, such as people education in health, collaborative ethnography and action-research, which consider unpredictability and uncertainty of contexts in movement.

I had been living many years in the State of Amazonas (Brazil) and collaborate with Brazilian and Latin American colleagues.

I work the questions of equality in international collaboration.

In Canada, my work focuses on the contemporary challenges of francophone nursing education with new immigrants and visible minorities, as well as with a new innovative project linking housing and HIV with a Coaltion of community-based organizations in Quebec.

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English and French , portuguais; espagnol

LAROCHE, Chantal »

Chantal Laroche

Audiology and Speech Language Pathology Program
Full professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Rehabilitation Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3066)
Home: 819-771-1701
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Office Telephone

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Effects of noise on hearing, safety and well-being. Noise and safety at work, warning sound perception (eg. fire alarms), discrimination against people with communication disorders, adaptation of workstations.

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English and French

LEFEBVRE, Pascal »

Associate professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Rehabilitation Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8400)
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Website

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E-mail

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Theoretical and clinical expertise in the prevention of oral language, and reading and writing difficulties in children.

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LEMAIRE, Edward »

PhD
Associate professor
Faculty of Medicine
Institute for Rehabilitation Research and Development

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Office: 613-737-7350 (75592)
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Website

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E-mail, Office Telephone

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Technological approaches to improve mobility for people with physical disabilities and the elderly. Computer/Internet applications for physical rehabilitation, assistive devices, prosthetics/orthotics, telehealth, telemedicine, e-learning, motion analysis, and CAD/CAM.

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LENARD, Patti Tamara »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8995)
Cell: 613-796-6647
Home: 613-796-6647
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Website

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E-mail, Cell Telephone

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I work in immigration, including temporary foreign workers, refugees, foreign students, permanent residents; multiculturalism, successes and failures of multicultural policies, trust among diverse communities; and immigrant integration, including strategies for inclusion, in Canada and western European states, immigrant political participation (including non-citizen voting rights).

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LIPPEL, Katherine »

Chairholder and Professor
Full professor
Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section

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

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E-mail

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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

LITTLE, Julian »

Julian Little

Canada Research Chair in Human Genome Epidemiology, and Department Chair
Full professor
Faculty of Medicine
Epidemiology and Community Medicine

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8159)
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E-mail

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My current research includes empirical work on potential biases in genetic association studies, harmonization of biobanks, the potential value of germline genetic profiling in prediction of risk for chronic disease, the potential value of information on family history in predicting risk for chronic disease, potential value of information on HPV and other factors in management of women with low-grade cervical abnormalities.

I am engaged in collaborations on enhancing surveillance of congenital anomalies in Canada, on long term health outcomes in people with congenital anomalies and on the etiology and management of cleft lip and palate.

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English and French , italien (limité) / limited Italian

LONGTIN, André »

André Longtin

Director, Center for Neural Dynamics
Full professor
Faculty of Science
Physics

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6762)
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E-mail

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I study how nonlinear systems can generate unpredictable behaviour including chaos. I also study how this behaviour is influenced by various sources of noise such as environmental fluctuations. This research is applied to the neurosciences, where I seek to understand how our senses code information about the outside physical world, and to unravel the secrets of the codes used by the brain. It is also applied to physiological variability such as that of heart rate and breathing rate in health and disease, using also nonlinear time series methods. My mathematical models make predictions about experimental outcomes in my colleagues' neurobiological and clinical laboratories. I am interested finally in plasticity and memory formation, neurotransmitter balance in mental health, the role of feedback between brain areas, and the behaviours of neurons under trauma.

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MACINTOSH, Eric »

Eric MacIntosh

Dr.
Assistant professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4242)
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Main research area is the Canadian fitness industry. Research focus on employee and membership satisfaction and retention. For-profit and not-for-profit fitness organizations, and work with the Canadian Fitness Professionals organization. Sport and development organizations, major sport events (e.g., Commonwealth Games, Olympics), and sport business (related to sponsorship of events and competitions such as mixed martial arts, ladies professional golf association to name a few).

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MOREAU, Denise »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Nursing

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8306)
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E-mail

Research information:

  • 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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English and French

MUNRO, Lauchlan »

Lauchlan Munro

Director
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of International Development and Global Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1940)
Cell: 613-878-5001
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Website

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E-mail, Cell Telephone

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1) Does aid to developing countries work? Why or why not?

2) How can governments in poor countries provide adequate health care and education to all their citizens, including the poorest and most vulnerable?

3) How should governments around the world cope with economic risk and uncertainty?

4) How can governments in poor countries provide social protection (health insurance, old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, drought relief)?

5) What role does science and technology play in development? What do appropriate science-for-development policies look like?

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MUSSIVAND, Tofy »

Medical Devices Chair
Full professor
Faculty of Medicine
Surgery

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Office: 613-761-4545
Office: 613-761-4323
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E-mail, Office Telephone

Research information:

Medical devices, clinical engineering, biomedical engineering, engineering medicine, national & international regulatory standards, artificial hearts, ventricular assist devices, DNA extraction, in situ sterilization and heart failure therapies.

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NAIR, Rama »

Vice-Dean
Full professor
Faculty of Medicine
Epidemiology and Community Medicine

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Office: 6135625800 ext 8282
Home: 6138330287
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Website

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E-mail

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English only, Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil

NICKERSON, Jason »

PhD Candidate
Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Institute of Population Health

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Office: 613-562-6262 (1620)
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Website

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Humanitarian aid; Health services during humanitarian emergencies; Health response to disasters, conflicts and crises; Foreign medical teams; Surgical care in low- and middle-income countries; Global public health; Coordination of humanitarian aid and assistance.

I study the ways in which health needs are established and prioritized during large humanitarian crises such as natural disasters and wars. I specifically focus on understanding and improving public health statistics and information related to the functioning of health systems/services/resources in crises, and population statistics such as mortality surveys and estimates and malnutrition assessments following disasters and wars.

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NOEL-WEISS, Joy »

Dr.
Assistant professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Nursing

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Office: 613-562-5800 (7669)
Home: 613-228-1413
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E-mail

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My research program is breastfeeding and human lactation. In particular, I am interested in newborn weight loss, maternal breastfeeding self-efficacy, education for nurses and lactation consultants, and ethics.

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O'CONNOR, Annette M. C. »

Full professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Nursing

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8337)
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Research information:

Patients' decision making about their health.

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O'REILLY, Norm »

Norm O'Reilly

Associate Professor of Sport Business
Associate professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics

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Office: 613-562-5800 (7083)
Cell: 613-240-7577
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E-mail

Research information:

Dr. O'Reilly is an expert in sport business. His research includes work in professional sport and Olympic sport, in the areas of finance, management, marketing and social marketing. His research was featured on the TSN/Globe and Mail series "Why Not Canada" in July 2010.

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PARENT, Milena »

Milena Parent

Dr.
Associate professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2984)
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Website

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My research focuses on the organization and (strategic) planning of sport organizations, especially major sports events (e.g., Olympic Games, World Championships, Pan American Games, Jeux de la Francophonie). I am also interested in stakeholder management, partnerships, networks and governance.

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POLOMENO, Viola »

Viola Polomeno

Associate 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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ROBERTSON, D. Gordon E. »

Full professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4253)
Office: 613-562-5800 (4246)
Home: 613-594-8238
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Website http://www.health.uottawa.ca/biomech/lab

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Sports biomechanics (track & field, athletics, rowing), electromyographic kinesiology, locomotor biomechanics (human walking, running, sprinting, jumping), inverse dynamics, muscle mechanics, energetics of human locomotion, analysis of muscle power.

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SANOU, Dia »

Dia Sanou

Faculty
Assistant professor
Faculty of Health Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (7043)
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Dr Sanou research aims at understanding and improving the nutrition and health of children and youth from disadvantaged communities worldwide including rural populations in Sub-Saharan Africa, Canadian immigrants and Aboriginal people. He is working on determinants of child malnutrition; dietary related acculturation and its impact on Canadian health; nutrition programming of relevance to the agenda of international development and health interventions to prevent dietary related diseases.

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English and French , bambara, dioula, bobo, moore

SAUNDERS, Travis »

PhD Student
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics

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I study the relationship between sedentary behaviour (e.g. sitting) and health in children and adults.

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SAVARD, Jacinthe »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Rehabilitation Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8065)
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Ergothérapie auprès des personnes âgées. Formation des professionnels de la santé (surtout ergothérapie).

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Français seulement

SCHRECKER, Ted »

Ted Schrecker

Scientist
Associate professor
Faculty of Medicine
Institute of Population Health

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Office: 613-562 5800 (2289)
Cell: 613-612-8485
Home: 613-233-6541
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My current research focuses on the relations between transnational economic integration ("globalization") and social determinants of health: the conditions under which people live and work. How is the emergence of a global marketplace affecting opportunities to lead a healthy life? Who wins, and who loses? How will the worldwide financial crisis we are now experiencing affect health disparities between rich and poor?

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SHEHATA, Marlene Fouad »

Prof., Pharmacist and PhD candidate in Genetics of Cardiovascular Diseases
Part-time professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
Medicine

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Office: 613-255-5476
Cell: 613-255-5476
Home: 613-255-5476
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My main field of research is targeting the salt-sensitive high blood pressure. This particular kind of high blood pressure has been connected with a genetic component that is inherited from parents to offsprings and that is usually exacerbated by high salt-intake. As a Geneticist Candidate and a Pharmacist, I am investigating the genes that might be involved in transmitting that genetic form of high blood pressure.

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SMITH?, Robert »

Assistant Professor
Associate professor
Faculty of Science
Mathematics

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3864)
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I develop mathematical models of infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, human papilloma virus, malaria and a variety of neglected tropical diseases. These models are in the areas of population epidemiology and within-host immunology. I look at intervention methods such as antiretroviral drugs, vaccines, quarantine and microbicides. I also study R0, the basic reproductive ratio for diseases. (I am also an expert in zombies and have the newspaper, radio and TV experience to prove it...)

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SPITZER, Denise »

Canada Research Chair in Gender, Migration and Health,
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Women's Studies Institute

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1222)
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I am interested in examining how global processes—intersecting with gender, ethnicity, migration status and other social identifiers—are implicated in health and well-being. At present, my program of research examines the impact of shifts in the global economy on the social and economic well-being of different groups of immigrants, migrants, and refugees and their families.

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English and French , German / allemand; Chinese / chinois

STACEY, Dawn »

University Research Chair in Knowledge Translation to Patients
Associate professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Nursing

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8419)
Office: (613)-737-8899 ext 73817
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In her role as scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, she leads the Patient Decision Aids Research Group. Her research is focused on using research findings to: a) support patients to be involved in making health decisions; b) guide policy makers with implementing patient decision aids and shared decision making in healthcare; c) help nurses provide telephone support to patients with cancer such that they are better able to manage their treatment side effects.

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TOURIGNY, Jocelyne »

Jocelyne TOURIGNY

Assistant Director graduate program
Full professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Nursing

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8422)
Home: 819-772-9991
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Santé des enfants et de leur famille, spécialement dans le milieu hospitalier pédiatrique. Éducation des parents et recherche des meilleurs moyens pour les faire participer aux soins de l'enfant. Santé des familles francophones en situation minoritaire.

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TRUDEL, Pierre »

Full professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4268)
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Formation et développement des entraîneurs sportifs

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TUGWELL, Peter »

Director
Full professor
Faculty of Medicine
Medicine

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1945)
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- Rheumatology, including rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis and hormone replacement therapy - Clinical epidemiology, such as evidence-based medicine and clinical trials - Reducing socioeconomic inequalities in health, through facilitating the summarizing and dissemination of systematic reviews of educational, health, legal and social strategies to reduce inequitable inequalities in health in individuals and populations

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TURNBULL, Jeffrey »

Jeffrey Turnbull

Chief of Staff/Médecin-Chef
Full professor
Faculty of Medicine

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Office: 613-737-8459
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Poverty and health. I have worked in SE Asia (Bangladesh) in settings of poverty and in Eastern Africa.

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VAILLANCOURT, Tracy »

Professor and Canada Research Chair
Full professor
Faculty of Education
School of Psychology

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Office: 6135625800 ext 4134
Cell: 6132208879
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I study aggression across the lifespan with a particular focus on bullying and peer victimization. I am also an expert on children's mental health.

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WHIFFEN, Valerie E. »

Full professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of Psychology

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The psycho-social causes of depression and the impact of depression on children and spouses. Depression in the context of marital distress and attachment insecurity. Postpartum depression.

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