Human & Social Development

Health Information Science

Name Research interests Contact info
Scott MacDonald
Associate Professor; Assistant Director (Research), Centre for Addictions Research of BC
epidemiology, role of substance use in injuries, program evaluation, alcohol policy Phone: 250-472-5933
Email: scottmac@uvic.ca
Website

Elizabeth Borycki
Assistant Professor

Director of Social Dimensions of Health and Health and Society

analysis of health care systems, information technologies in healthcare, patient safety Phone: 250-472-5432
Email: emb@uvic.ca
Website

Nursing

Name Research interests Contact info
Kelli Stajduhar
Associate Professor
palliative and end-of-life care, family care-giving, home care, HIV/AIDS, oncology, gerontology, health services research Phone: 250-721-7487
Email: kis@uvic.ca
Website

Child and Youth Care

Name Research interests Contact info
Jessica Ball
Professor
Indigenous People's health, child development Phone: 250-472-4128
Email: jball@uvic.ca
Website

Social Work

Name Research interests Contact info
Patricia MacKenzie
Associate Professor; Associate Dean, Graduate Studies
health care, aging, interdisciplinary practice and rural communities Phone: 250-721-8036
Email: patmack@uvic.ca

Others

Name Research interests Contact info

Laura Arbour

Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics at UBC and an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Division of Medical Sciences at the University of Victoria.

 

Research interests: medical genetics, genetic disorders and conditions specific to Indigenous populations, Long QT Syndrome, Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC) and birth defects

 

Phone: 250-472-5544

email: larbour@uvic.ca

Taiaiake Alfred
Professor; Director, Indigenous Governance Program
Indigenous People's health Phone: 250-721-6439
Email: gta@uvic.ca
Website
Howard Brunt
Vice-President Research
cardiovascular epidemiology and human research ethics, with a strong emphasis on community-based research Phone: 250-721-7973
Email: vpr@uvic.ca
Website

Nicole Fairbrother
Assistant Professor, Island Medical Program and the UBC Department of Psychiatry

psychiatric epidemiology and perinatal mental health with a focus on perinatal anxiety disorder prevelance and incidence, cognitive behavioural models of postpartum obsessive compulsive disorder, and various midwifery-related issues such as home birth, infant feeding and infant crying

Phone: 250-370-8111 extension(13629)

Website

Michael Prince
Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy, Studies in Policy and Practice Program
analysis of health care systems, policy, disability Phone: 250-721-8043
Email: mprince@uvic.ca
Website
Jeff Reading
Professor; Director, Centre for Aboriginal Health Research
Aboriginal health Phone: 250-472-5451
Email: jreading@uvic.ca
Website