Contact us
Office
Mailing address
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2
Physical and courier address
Room B202
Human and Social Development Building
University of Victoria
3800 Finnerty Road
Victoria, BC V8P 5C2
General inquiries
Student advising
Staff
Leila Bolouri
Assistant to director; office manager Public Health and Social Policy
Office: HSD B202 leilabolouri@uvic.ca 250-472-5377
- Area(s) of expertise:
- administrative support to the director; coordinating faculty recruitment , appointment, reappointment, promotion and tenure and leave processes; academic program reviews, school events, supporting budget reconciliation, overseeing the day-to-day operation of the school
Gillian Cornwall
Academic administrative officer Public Health and Social Policy
Office: HSD B202g cornwall@uvic.ca 250-853-3845
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Administrative management of operations and coordination of; finance and budget functions, human resources, marketing and communications, policy, procedure, collective agreement and relevant legislation compliance and information sharing, report generation
Gill Dolding
Status: On leave
Admissions and academic adviser Public Health and Social Policy
Office: HSD B202c phsp@uvic.ca 250-721-8204
Julie Funk
Communications and distributed learning program assistant Public Health and Social Policy
Office: HSD B202 juliemfunk@uvic.ca 250-472-5208
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Instructor Brightspace support, website maintenance, communications and marketing, curriculum and calendar, general admin support
Laleh Mousavi
Acting academic adviser (BA and MPH); program assistant (SDH) Public Health and Social Policy
Office: HSD B202a phsp2@uvic.ca; sdhadmin@uvic.ca 250-472-5374
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Student support with administrative inquiries, registration, graduation processes, leave requests, and non-academic advising
Heather Ulmer
Practicum coordinator Public Health and Social Policy
Office: HSD B202b hulmer@uvic.ca 250-721-6628
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Student practicum support and coordination; placement coordination and development; alumni and community engagement
Faculty
Professor; director Public Health and Social Policy
Accepting graduate students
Office: HSD B202f worthing@uvic.ca; phspdirector@uvic.ca 250-472-4709
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Health services research, program evaluation, access to health care, recipient views of services, social-structural drivers of health, HIV/AIDS, homelessness, adolescent health, community-based participatory research, survey methods, qualitative methods, research ethics
Assistant professor Public Health and Social Policy
Accepting graduate students
Office: HWB 285A jaimeasl@uvic.ca 250-472-3124
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Harm reduction, HIV, Latin America
Status: On leave
Assistant professor Public Health and Social Policy
Office: HSD B242 augerm@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Determinants of Indigenous Peoples’ health, Indigenous child welfare, mental wellness and life promotion, Indigenous research methodologies, program evaluation, qualitative methods, community-based research, strengths-based approaches
Assistant professor Public Health and Social Policy
Accepting graduate students
robertberinger@uvic.ca 250–221-2052
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Gerontology; technology and aging; Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer plus (2SLGBTQ+) aging; global 2SLGBTQ+ health; health equity; community-based research; virtual community building and social connectivity; health promotion
Assistant teaching professor, limited term Public Health and Social Policy
- Area(s) of expertise:
- 2SLGBTQ mental health, queer theory, social constructionism, relational research, intersectionality, health equity
Status: Not accepting new graduate students
Associate teaching professor; undergraduate adviser Public Health and Social Policy
nfrandsen@uvic.ca; phspbaadvisor@uvic.ca 250-721-6625
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Mental health, program evaluation, program planning and management, online education, health promotion, health education, relational practice
Status: On leave; not accepting new graduate students
Professor Public Health and Social Policy
nlachowsky@uvic.ca 250-472‐5739
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Sexual and reproductive health; Two-Spirit and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (2S/LGBTQ) people; HIV prevention and care; health equity; interdisciplinary approaches; Indigenous health; mixed methods; community-based research; public health surveillance; infectious diseases; population health
Assistant teaching professor, limited term Public Health and Social Policy
Office: HSD B202e lmlee@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Child and youth health and wellbeing; Global health; Child and youth participation and protection; Youth sexual and reproductive health and rights; HIV/AIDS; Gender and health inequities; Psychosocial wellbeing of children; Community-based and participatory action research methodologies; Social suffering and structural violence; Participatory program planning and evaluation
Associate professor Public Health and Social Policy
matthewlittle@uvic.ca 250-472-5374
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Scholarship of teaching and learning; Nutrition and diet-related non-communicable diseases; nutritional and environmental epidemiology; food security; food environments; global health; Indigenous health; mixed methods research; social and cultural determinants of nutrition and health
Professor; Social Dimensions of Health adviser Public Health and Social Policy
Accepting graduate students
Office: HSD B232 jeffmasuda@uvic.ca; sdhadvisor@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Environmental health equity, ecological sustainability, social and environmental justice, critical health promotion, healthy living environments, housing rights, participatory action research, public health history, health geography
Assistant professor Public Health and Social Policy
farahmawani@uvic.ca 250-721-6304
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Anti-racist implementation science, social and psychiatric epidemiology, global health; community-health system-university partnerships; lived experience, community-led, community-embedded, trauma-informed, and decolonizing research approaches; interdisciplinary quantitative, qualitative, policy, and mixed methods research and evaluation; migration and mental health inequities; work environments and mental health inequities; non-communicable disease prevention; urban health solutions
Status: On leave; will be accepting students upon return May 2026
Associate professor Public Health and Social Policy
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Culturally safe health service access; Métis Peoples’ health service access; reproductive and sexual health; qualitative methods; decolonizing research methodologies; community-based participatory research; public health feminisms
Status: On leave
Professor Public Health and Social Policy
Accepting graduate students
Office: HWB 267 urbanosk@uvic.ca 250-853-3238
- Area(s) of expertise:
- substance use, harm reduction, treatment, toxic drug crisis, implementation science, social determinants of health
Status: Not accepting new graduate students
Associate professor Public Health and Social Policy
swcardinal@uvic.ca 250-853-3109
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Spirit and land-based dimensions of Indigenous health, holistic Community Wellness, Decolonizing praxis, Indigenous Child Welfare (historical and current), Intersectionality & identity development, Storied and community led research, Indigenous ethics
Adjunct appointments & emeriti
PHSP appointments:
- Sandra Allison, BSc, MD, MPH (Manitoba), Adjunct Associate Professor (2023–2027)
- Brittany Barker, BA, MPP, PhD (UBC), Adjunct Associate Professor (2023–2027)
- Lillian Bayne, BA, MA, MSc (Toronto), Adjunct Professor (2023–2028)
- Kiffer Card, BSc, PhD (Simon Fraser), Adjunct Associate Professor (2023–2027)
- Diene Carlos, MSc, PhD (University of São Paulo), Adjunct Assistant Professor (2024–2029)
- Simon Carroll, BA, MA, PhD (UVic), Adjunct Associate Professor (2023–2027)
- Sorcha Collins, BS, MS, MPH (UBC), Adjunct Assistant Professor (2025–2029)
- Nichole Fairbrother, BA, MA, PhD (UBC), Adjunct Associate Professor (2024–2029)
- Maritia Gulley, MSc (London), Adjunct Assistant Professor (2023–2028)
- Trevor Hancock, BSc, MB BS, MHSc (Toronto), Adjunct Affiliate Professor (2024–2028)
- Kate Jongbloed, BA, MS, PhD (UBC), Adjunct Associate Professor (2024–2028)
- Perry Kendall, MBBS, FRCP, MSc (UBC), Adjunct Professor (2023–2028)
- Sandra Marquis, BSC, MSc, PhD (UVic), Adjunct Associate Professor (2023–2027)
- Andrea Mellor, BSc (Calgary), MSc (Calgary), PhD (UVic), Adjunct Associate Professor (2023–2027)
- Patrick McGowan, BA, MSW, PhD (UBC), Professor, Grant Tenure (2019–2026)
- Jo Ann Miller, BSc, MA, PhD (UBC), Adjunct Associate Professor (2023–2027)
- Jeff Reading, BA, MSc, PhD (Toronto), Adjunct Associate Professor (2023–2027)
- Leo Rutherford, BS, MA, PhD (UVic), Adjunct Assistant Professor (2023–2027)
- Adam Sherk, BS, MA, PhD (UVic), Adjunct Associate Professor (2023–2028)
- Samantha Thompson, BA, MA, PhD (Washington), Adjunct Assistant Professor (2024–2029)
- Laine Halpern Zisman, BA, MA, MFA, PhD (Toronto), Adjunct Assistant Professor (2024–2029)
SDH appointments:
- Diene Carlos, MSc, PhD (University of São Paulo), Adjunct Assistant Professor (2024–2029)
- Aniela M. dela Cruz, BN (Calgary), MSc (Alberta), PhD (Alberta), Affiliate Member (2025-2030)
- Francine Doucet, Diploma in Inuit Studies (Nunavut Arctic College), Certificate in Pre-Health Sciences (Algonquin College), Affiliate Member (2025-2026)
- Nichole Fairbrother, BA, MA, PhD (UBC), Adjunct Associate Professor (2024–2029)
- Laurie Harding, BA (VIU), MSW (UVic), EdD (SFU), Adjunct Assistant Professor (2025-2030)
- Yi Chien Jade Ho, BA (Quintana Roo), MEd (SFU), PhD (SFU), Affiliate Member (2025-2030)
- Diana Lewis, BA (McMaster), MREM (Dalhousie), PhD (Dalhousie), Affiliate Member (2023-2028)
- Carmen Logie, BA (Toronto), MSW (Eastern Michigan), PhD (Toronto), Affiliate Member (2026-2030)
- Ryan McNeil, BPhil (New Brunswick), MPhil (New Brunswick), PhD (UBC), Affiliate Member (2026-2031)
- Andrea Mellor, BSc (Calgary), MSc (Calgary), PhD (UVic), Adjunct Associate Professor (2023–2027)
- Geoffrey Reaume, BA (Windsor), MA (Toronto), PhD (Toronto), Affiliate Member (2025-2030)
- Rusty Souleymanov, BSc (Toronto), MSW (Toronto), PhD (Toronto), Adjunct Assistant Professor (2021-2026)
- Krista Stelkia, BA (SFU), MA (SFU), PhD (SFU), Affiliate Member (2025-2028)
- Amanda Wager, BFA (Emerson), MAT (Dominican), PhD (UBC), Affiliate Member (2023-2027)
- Trevor Hancock, BSc, MB BS, MHSc (Toronto). Public health systems and services research; health promotion; healthy cities and communities; health and nature; healthy public policy; community development and health.
- Michael Hayes, PhD (McMaster). Health inequities; disability; public policy; obesity; health literacy; population health promotion.
- Nigel Livingston, BSc, MSc, PhD (UBC). Disability, assistive technology, policy and practices with respect to individuals with disabilities and their families; disability supports and services.
- Charlotte Loppie, BSc, MA, PhD (Dalhousie). Sexual and reproductive health across the lifespan; sexual diversity; sex trade work; HIV/AIDS; the construction of female sexuality and the cultural determinants of health.
- Jeff Reading, PhD (Toronto). Aboriginal health; health promotion; health policy; cardiovascular physiology; research administration; population and public health; health services; chronic disease; surveys; global Indigenous health.