Andrews, Dr. Gavin J.
In 2001, Gavin J Andrews moved from Buckinghamshire University College UK (where he was a Reader in Health Studies) to take the position of Associate Professor at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto. His geographical approaches are applied to two main empirical fields:
1) Social and health care for older people. Hence, described as ‘ageing and place’ related or located within the sub-discipline of geographical gerontology.
2) Nursing research and practice. This strand of research has both contributed empirically to, and articulated the nature of, a new and emerging ‘Geography of Nursing’
And a more specialist and crosscutting sub-field:
3) Small business health and long-term care (including foci on residential services, secure facilities and complementary medicine.

He is the North American Editor for the Blackwell Journal, International Journal of Older People Nursing and the recipient of research grants from the British NHS, Nuffield Foundation and Age Concern (Bucks).

Baxter, Dr. Jamie
Dr. Baxter is a former chair of the Geography of Health and Health Care Specialty Group and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environmental Science Program at the University of Calgary (since 1997). Jamie has degrees from McMaster University (Masters and Ph.D.) and Queen's University at Kingston (B.A.hons). His research interests include medical/health geography; the social construction of risk, community reactions to technological environmental hazards, siting of noxious facilities, the links between environment and health, environmental impact assessment, and social science methodology.  Dr. Baxter has received research funding from such granting agencies as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the University of Calgary, McMaster University and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) fund.  For the past three years he has researched the community impacts of hazardous waste (SSHRC).  He has served as councilor for the Medical Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers as well as several community committees including the Calgary Shorelands Forum Committee, the Calgary Environmental Advisory Committee, and the Calgary Pesticides Best Practices Committee.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/SS/GEOG/PEOPLE/faculty/baxter.html (Departmental Webpage)
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~baxterj/ (Personal Webpage)

Dyck, Dr. Isabel
Dr. Dyck is a social geographer and Associate Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of British Columbia. Her research interests include feminist analyses of the home and work experiences of women with chronic illness, health care access for immigrant, minority women, and integration issues for immigrant families. Current research includes examination of the home as a site for long-term home care.
http://www.rehab.ubc.ca/srs/research.htm#anchor110328 (Departmental Webpage)

Dunn, Dr. Jim
Dr. Dunn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary and holds a New Investigator award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and a Scholar award from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research.  His background is in the social geography of health, having earned a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University in 1999.  After two years on faculty at the University of British Columbia, he moved to Calgary on Sept. 1, 2001.  He has research interests in the role of housing in the production of social inequalities in health, social and spatial patterning of early child development indicators, and the relationship between income inequality and population health in North American metropolitan areas.  For the past two years he has served as co-ordinator for the American Association of Geographers’ Jacques May Prize for the top Ph.D. and Master’s theses in Medical Geography.  He is also a
past member of the Board of Directors for the Public Health Association of British Columbia and the Habitat for Humanity Vancouver.
www.housingandhealth.ca
www.metro-inequality-health.ca

Foggin, Dr. Peter M.
Graduate of U.B.C. (geography, 1963), Université de Montréal (geography, 1967) and McGill University (Ph.D. in urban geography, 1970) started his academic career at Université du Québec à Montréal(UQAM), followed by stints at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) and at INRS-Urbanisation in Montreal. From 1976 to 1979 he was involved in NGO development work in Haïti. From 1979 until the present he has been with the Department of Geography of the Université de Montréal, including two 4-year terms as chair. He has been increasingly preoccupied by the question of why geographically isolated and indigenous populations tend to have much poorer health levels than those experienced by main national populations. Under his leadership this type of research has been conducted with the Inuit and Cree of northern Québec and with the semi-nomadic pastoralists of Mongolia. He is particularly interested in cultural geography and takes great pleasure in preparing for and presenting regional courses on China and Southeast Asia.

http://www.geog.umontreal.ca/  www.plateauperspectives.org
 

Garvin, Dr. Theresa
Director - Community, Health & Environment Research Centre; Assistant Professor - Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences University of Alberta
My research interests lie in the general area of environment and health as well as in policy development and processes.
These have substantive, theoretical and methodological components including:
· The roles of science and policy as they interact in environmental problems with health outcomes
· The transfer and uptake of information between scientists and policy makers
· How scientific evidence and policy decisions are (or are not) accepted and acted upon by communities and
individuals
· The influence of risk and uncertainty on community mobilization, as well as the social constructions of those risks and
uncertainties, and
· The application of policy analytic and qualitative research methods in environmental health research
http://www.ualberta.ca/EAS/People/profs/garvin.htm (Departmental Webpage)

Hanlon, Dr. Neil
In August 2001, I will be taking up an appointment in the Geography Program at the University of Northern British Columbia. In August 2000, I was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship through CIHR's Health Career Awards Program. The fellowship was hosted by the School of Health Services Administration at Dalhousie University, where I had a sessional appointment since July 1999. Prior to this, I taught in the School of Geography and Geology at McMaster University (1998/99). I did my graduate work in the Department of Geography at Queen's University (MA 1994, PhD 1998). My research interests primarily involve geographical dimensions of health care planning and delivery. I am particularly interested in the ways in which locally situated decision making processes have shaped the outcomes of state-initiated health care reform efforts. My published research is in the area of provincial health care reform and its impacts on health services administration at the local level, specifically in reference to the restructuring of public hospitals in the province of Ontario. I have recently begun to extend this line of inquiry to look at the policy/administration interface in the continuing care sector in Nova Scotia. I also do research utilizing administrative data (e.g., hospital discharge abstracts, physician billings and pharmacare claims) to explore health geography issues. Currently, I am conducting a study of the extent to which individuals in the province of Nova Scotia obtain hospital care further from home than is necessary. This study is funded by the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation, and its findings will be disseminated in 2002. At the University of Northern British Columbia, I expect to focus on health and health care topics in the context of rural and remote settings. I look forward to the opportunity to incorporate my research interests and activities into undergraduate and graduate teaching at UNBC.
http://web.unbc.ca/geography/faculty.htm (Department Webpage)

Tomic, Dr. Karen E.
Dr. Tomic (formerly Smoyer) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and holds an adjunct appointment in Public
Health Sciences at the University of Alberta. Her research expertise, in environment and human health, combines applied climatology, health geography, and urban geography.  One research focus is the impact of climate variability and change on human health.  The second is the relationship between access and inequity in the urban environment (including the natural, built, and social environments) and different health outcomes. This work is funded by NSERC, SSHRC, and Environment Canada.  Currently she is a review editor for Climate Research, and a board member of both the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Biometeorology and Aerobiology Science and Technology Committee and the Association of American Geographers' (AAG) Medical Geography specialty group.  Dr. Tomic has published her research internationally in leading climatology, health, and social science journals, and has been invited to speak to diverse audiences in North America, Europe, and Asia.
http://www.ualberta.ca/~eas/People/profs/smoyer.htm (Departmental webpage)
http://www.ualberta.ca/~ksmoyer/chrphome.htm  (Climate and Health Research Program (CHRP) webpage)
http://www.ualberta.ca/~ksmoyer/webpage/home.htm (Situating Place in Health Research (SPHR) webpage)

Wakefield, Dr. Sarah
Sarah is an assistant professor in the University of Toronto Geography Department and Programme in Planning, and is also affiliated with the CIHR Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI).  Her current research has three broad foci – healthy neighbourhoods, civic participation in environmental management, and urban food security.  She currently holds research grants in these three areas, investigating issues such as: methodological development in neighbourhood and health research; facilitators and barriers to citizen participation in environmental governance; the health impacts of community gardening; and policy responses to food issues at the local, provincial and national levels in Canada.  She is also interested in critical social theory and its application to environmental health issues.  Sarah uses a range of qualitative and quantitative methods to explore her areas of interest, including community-based research methods.  Much of her current research involves interdisciplinary and intersectoral partnerships with community organizations and health policy actors, in order to maximize the utility of her work as a tool for social and political change.  http://www.geog.utoronto.ca/info/faculty/Wakefield.htm (departmental webpage)