Faculty Members

rallen

rallen — 2011-10-14T16:53:37Z

After earning his B.S. degree in Physics from Denison University, Dr. Allen attended the University of Washington where he earned his M.S. in Environmental Engineering and his Ph.D. in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. His doctoral research investigated personal exposure to air pollution in the Seattle area, focusing specifically on the penetration of outdoor air pollution into indoor residential environments and the contributions of outdoor- and indoor-generated air pollution to personal exposure. After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Allen remained at the University of Washington as a post-doctoral fellow. During this time he continued to research air pollution exposure as part of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution. This ongoing study is investigating the role of air pollution from traffic and other sources on the progression of subclinical cardiovascular disease in 6 U.S. cities.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.sfu.ca/~allenr/

For more information on Dr. Allen's CLEAR study, please visit:

http://www.sfu.ca/clearstudy/

tvb

tvb — 2011-01-17T21:30:05Z

Dr. Beischlag received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1996. There he cloned and studied the transcriptional regulation of dopamine receptor genes. Following his PhD, Dr. Beischlag’s post-doctoral research began at the University of California/Los Angeles where he studied and characterized the molecular determinants of aryl hydrocarbon receptor-mediated gene transcription. He continued this work at the University of California/San Diego. In 2004, Dr. Beischlag joined the Center for Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis at Pennsylvania State University as an assistant research professor. Dr. Beischlag joined the Faculty of Health Sciences in 2007.

Dr. Beischlag is actively seeking M.Sc. and Ph.D. level graduate students for his lab. Interested candidates should apply directly to Dr. Beischlag at: tvb@sfu.ca

More information about the Beischlag Lab.

nberry

nberry — 2011-05-18T21:48:10Z

Dr. Berry received her training at the University of Michigan, where she got her M.A. and Ph.D. in the Department of Anthropology and earned a graduate certificate from the joint program with Psychology. Before coming to Simon Fraser, Dr. Berry was a Kellogg Community Health Scholar at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mark_brockman

Mark_brockman — 2012-02-02T23:00:03Z

Dr. Mark Brockman received his PhD in Virology from Harvard University in 2001. He completed postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2007, he was appointed as Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Brockman arrived at SFU in September 2009 as Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, and he joined the Faculty of Health Sciences in September 2011.

zbrumme

zbrumme — 2012-02-02T23:09:54Z

Dr. Zabrina Brumme received her Ph.D. in Experimental Medicine in 2006 from the University of British Columbia. She then went on to complete a post-doctoral fellowship at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard University (formerly known as the Partners AIDS Research Center), in Boston, Massachusetts. She joined SFU FHS as Assistant Professor, Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, in September 2009.

Dr. Brumme’s current research integrates molecular biology, epidemiology and computational approaches to study HIV evolution in response to selection pressures imposed by the human cellular immune response. One of the greatest challenges to HIV vaccine design is the virus’ capacity to evade immune recognition through rapid mutation, a process called “immune escape”. Through the analysis of population-based cohorts of HIV-infected individuals in Canada and worldwide, Dr. Brumme has helped to create “maps” of the HIV genome that systematically identify specific sites and pathways of immune escape in viral proteins. Dr. Brumme is also interested in studying how human immune selection pressures have shaped HIV evolution over the course of the epidemic, and the implications of this on vaccine design. Most recently, Dr. Brumme’s work has focused on assessing the consequences of immune escape mutations to HIV replication and viral protein function.

Dr. Brumme has published a career total of 46 peer-reviewed manuscripts in the field of HIV/AIDS molecular epidemiology. She currently holds a CIHR New Investigator award.

jrc

jrc — 2012-01-05T17:09:20Z

Dr. Calvert is a political scientist with a specialization in public policy. After completing his BA and MA at the University of Western Ontario, he enrolled at the London School of Economics, where he obtained his PhD in the Government Department. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of Canadian public policy and health, the impact of international trade agreements on health policy, privatization and workers’ occupational health and safety. He has published a number of books and articles on Canadian and international public policy and economic issues. Prior to coming to Simon Fraser University, Dr. Calvert worked for a number of years in the BC government as a policy advisor in the trade policy area and in the Ministries of Labour, Employment and Investment and the Crown Corporations Secretariat.

kcorbett

kcorbett — 2011-08-26T19:03:40Z

Dr. Corbett is a medical anthropologist whose research has emphasized the application of behavioural and social science to public health communication, participatory community-based health promotion with diverse and vulnerable populations, and quality improvement within healthcare. She enjoys working on teams that take on major public health problems. Her approach is very much multi-methodological, reflecting a multi-disciplinary, social ecological perspective.

After a position from 1986 to 1991 as a research scientist with Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California, Dr. Corbett moved to the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCHSC), where she was a professor in both the Health and Behavioral Sciences Program and the Anthropology Department. She joined Simon Fraser University in 2005.

serikson

serikson — 2011-01-17T21:34:14Z

Dr. Erikson is a medical anthropologist who has worked in Africa, Europe, Central Asia, and North America. During a first career in international development, she worked in hospitals, rural clinics and schools in Sierra Leone providing primary health and education services. Dr. Erikson has worked for or with many US government departments and agencies, including the US Congress, US Departments of State and Agriculture, and the US Agency for International Development. As an academic, Dr. Erikson combines her practical experience with a critical study of relations of power that make good health more likely. Dr. Erikson is the founding director of Global Health Affairs at the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She joined Simon Fraser in 2007.

bfischer

bfischer — 2012-01-13T20:22:25Z

Benedikt Fischer, PhD, obtained his doctorate in Criminology at the University of Toronto (1998). Subsequent to his doctorate, he was a Research Scientist and Section Co-Head at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, and held faculty appointments in the Department of Public Health Sciences and at the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto. Following a faculty appointment at the University of Victoria (2006 – 2008), Dr. Fischer joined the Centre for Applied Research in Addictions and Mental Health (CARMHA) and the Faculty of Health Sciences as Professor in September 2008. He currently holds a CIHR/PHAC Research Chair in Applied Public Health and is a MSFHR Senior Scholar Career Investigator. He is furthermore an Affiliate Scientist with the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and a Senior Scientist with CAMH. Dr. Fischer is a member of the Institute Advisory Board of the CIHR Institute for Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INHMA), as well as a member of the Science Advisory Board of the Mental Health Commission of Canada.

egoldner

egoldner — 2010-10-08T19:28:37Z

Dr. Elliot Goldner received an Honours B.Sc. degree in neurophysiology at the University of Toronto, an M.D. degree at the University of Calgary and an M.H.Sc. degree in epidemiology at the University of British Columbia where he also completed specialty training and full qualifications in Psychiatry. He began his career working to help individuals with Eating Disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia nervosa, and helped to establish a province-wide network of treatment services. Dr. Goldner was appointed the Director of British Columbia’s Provincial Eating Disorder Programs and instituted a clinical research program to advance the outcomes of treatment interventions. After working to improve the design and quality of treatment services for people with Eating Disorders in British Columbia, and in other Canadian provinces and other countries, Dr. Goldner expanded his efforts to address the full spectrum of mental health and addiction problems and developed a research unit designed to provide research support to governments in their efforts to advance the quality of mental health and addiction services.

Before joining the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, Dr. Goldner was on faculty at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Medicine for 20 years, where he was a very active teacher and researcher. He was the Director of Undergraduate Education for the Department of Psychiatry and he founded and headed the Division of Mental Health Policy & Services and the Mental Health Evaluation & Community Consultation Unit (MHECCU). Dr. Goldner directs a national Research Training Program, entitled ‘Research in Addiction & Mental Health Policy & Services’ that has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in order to train scientists to conduct research to advance the healthcare system’s approach to mental illness and addiction. Dr. Goldner has received various awards for his scholarly work and he has served on various Boards of Directors. Currently he is a Director on the Board of the Centre for Addiction Research, at the University of Victoria, and is also serves on the Board of the Coast Foundation Society, a non-profit society that provides services to people with severe mental illnesses.

lgoldsmith

lgoldsmith — 2011-01-17T21:34:57Z

Laurie J. Goldsmith is a health services and health policy researcher. She has a PhD in Health Policy and Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a MSc in Health Research Methodology from McMaster University, and a BA&Sc from McMaster University. Dr. Goldsmith has conducted health services and health policy research for over 14 years in Canada and the United States, working with health system decision makers at the federal, provincial, state, and local levels. Her recent positions have included Research Fellow at the Center for Health Economics and Policy Analysis at McMaster University and Research Associate at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

charles_goldsmith

charles_goldsmith — 2011-07-29T17:09:28Z

Charlie received his BSc and MSc degrees in Statistics from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. After teaching at Carleton University in Ottawa for two years, he received his PhD in Experimental Design with a minor in Mathematical Statistics at North Carolina State University in Raleigh NC. He returned to Canada when McMaster started its Medical School and has been there for his entire career. Until August 31, 2010, he was an Emeritus Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University. As of September 1, 2010 he is the Maureen and Milan Ilich/Merck Chair in Statistics for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases. He is also a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. Charlie has been involved in a variety of studies related to musculoskeletal and surgical conditions, most recently the Cervical Overview Group which conducts Cochrane reviews of therapy for patients with neck pain and the Cochrane Collaboration at McMaster University. He is member of several editorial boards of health related journals and has interests in quality improvement, experimental design, study design and analysis. He has a keen interest in mentoring newer faculty members in their careers.

rhogg

rhogg — 2011-05-18T21:51:26Z

Robert Hogg has established a national and international reputation in population health research with emphasis on HIV/AIDS, antiretroviral therapy, and marginalized populations. He has published extensively and received previous support from the National Health Research Development Program (1995 to 2000), Canadian Institutes of Health (2001 to 2002), and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (2001 to 2006). At the University of British Columbia he held the Michael O’Shaughnessy Chair in Population Health. He currently is an adjunct Professor in the Department of International Health and Cross-Cultural Medicine at the University of California, San Diego and the Director of the HIV/AIDS Drug Treatment Program at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.

cjanes1

cjanes — 2012-02-02T23:10:31Z

Dr. Janes is interested in globalization and health, in particular the impact of liberal strategies of economic and cultural development on maternal and child health, reproductive health, and access to health care. He has worked on the problem of the globalization of market-based health reform policy since the early 1990s, first in southwestern China (Tibet), and most recently in Mongolia. He has demonstrated that the dominant model for health reform – involving privatization and changes to the scope of primary health care – produces substantial vertical and horizontal inequities in health care access, and exposes the vulnerable poor to further impoverishment when faced with catastrophic illness. Most recently Dr. Janes has begun working on a project intended to develop and apply equity-focused health impact assessment methodologies in development settings.

mjoffres

mjoffres — 2011-11-07T23:35:34Z

Dr. Joffres is involved in a broad spectrum of research encompassing clinical as well as public health spheres. He employs epidemiological methods to develop primary prevention projects in regards to chronic and infectious diseases, hypertension, diabetes, and record linkage studies. Research includes community based prevention programs, large-scale clinical trials, policy development and has recently developed a focus in mental health stemming from collaborations with the Centre for Emotions and Health at Dalhousie University. In addition, recent projects focus on environmental health and analysis of the Canadian Heart Health Surveys.