Lorraine Halinka Malcoe

Associate Professor

Biography: 

Lorraine Halinka Malcoe came to SFU from the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, where she was an Associate Professor and Associate Director of their Masters in Public Health Program. She is a social epidemiologist with longstanding research interests in gender, race, and class inequalities in health. She conducts epidemiologic observational research as well as participatory, community-level interventions. For the past decade, she has employed mixed-method approaches to improve understanding of the social causes and consequences of violence against women from diverse racial, cultural, and socioeconomic groups.

Research Interests: 

Dr. Malcoe's research has three foci:

• Understanding social determinants of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women
• Understanding and reducing health inequalities that negatively impact indigenous populations 
• Design and evaluation of participatory, community-level interventions to improve population health
  

The aims of her research are to explore theory, methods, and measures for understanding the intersecting influences of gender, race, class, and colonisation on population health outcomes. She is collaborating with others in the SFU Faculty of Health Sciences and Institute for Critical Studies in Gender and Health to understand Canadian approaches to these lines of inquiry.

Teaching Interests: 

Dr. Malcoe aims to teach learners how to formulate and approach public health problems using sound scientific methods, while critically examining the theoretical and methodologic assumptions of various epistemological approaches. She is currently working with other faculty and staff in the FHS to develop a graduate program emphasis in Social Inequalities and Health. She is also facilitating a discussion group on Colonisation, Racism and Population Health which is exploring postcolonial and feminist intersectional theories and modes of analysis for studying gendered effects of colonisation and racism on population health.

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