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Elizabeth Alvarez
MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: Health promotion; behaviour change; chronic disease prevention and management; mental health; aging; health policy; health systems strengthening; public health; primary care; ecological approaches to health
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Carol Walker Bassim
MHS, DMD
Assistant Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: population level oral health across the lifespan; public health interventions to improve population level oral health across the lifespan; sugary drink, tobacco use, and dental insurance programs and policy; prioritization of a minimum functional dentition
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Andrew Costa
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: Big Data & geriatric models of care; avoidable emergency department and acute care use among frail older adults
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Lauren Griffith
PhD
Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: physical functioning and aging; multi-morbidity; population studies; epidemiological methods; biostatistics; meta-analysis; health systems and society
Maureen Markle-Reid
RN, MScN, PhD
Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: person-centred Interventions; older adults; multimorbidity (diabetes, depression, stroke rehabilitation, fall prevention); caregivers; intervention research; pragmatic randomized controlled trials
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Parminder Raina
PhD
Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: Epidemiology; population health / public health; dementia and aging; methodology, meta-analysis, and systematic review; geriatric epidemiology; caregiver health; injury research and prevention.
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Elizabeth Alvarez
MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: Health promotion; behaviour change; chronic disease prevention and management; mental health; aging; health policy; health systems strengthening; public health; primary care; ecological approaches to health
Google Scholar Link
Elizabeth Alvarez
MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: Health promotion; behaviour change; chronic disease prevention and management; mental health; aging; health policy; health systems strengthening; public health; primary care; ecological approaches to health
Google Scholar Link
Carol Walker Bassim
MHS, DMD
Assistant Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: population level oral health across the lifespan; public health interventions to improve population level oral health across the lifespan; sugary drink, tobacco use, and dental insurance programs and policy; prioritization of a minimum functional dentition
Google Scholar Link
Carol Walker Bassim
MHS, DMD
Assistant Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: population level oral health across the lifespan; public health interventions to improve population level oral health across the lifespan; sugary drink, tobacco use, and dental insurance programs and policy; prioritization of a minimum functional dentition
Google Scholar Link
Andrew Costa
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: Big Data & geriatric models of care; avoidable emergency department and acute care use among frail older adults
Google Scholar Link
Andrew Costa
PhD
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Research Interests: Big Data & geriatric models of care; avoidable emergency department and acute care use among frail older adults
Google Scholar Link
Lauren Griffith
PhD
Professor
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Research Interests: physical functioning and aging; multi-morbidity; population studies; epidemiological methods; biostatistics; meta-analysis; health systems and society
Lauren Griffith
PhD
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Research Interests: physical functioning and aging; multi-morbidity; population studies; epidemiological methods; biostatistics; meta-analysis; health systems and society
Maureen Markle-Reid
RN, MScN, PhD
Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: person-centred Interventions; older adults; multimorbidity (diabetes, depression, stroke rehabilitation, fall prevention); caregivers; intervention research; pragmatic randomized controlled trials
Google Scholar Link
Maureen Markle-Reid
RN, MScN, PhD
Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: person-centred Interventions; older adults; multimorbidity (diabetes, depression, stroke rehabilitation, fall prevention); caregivers; intervention research; pragmatic randomized controlled trials
Google Scholar Link
Parminder Raina
PhD
Professor
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Research Interests: Epidemiology; population health / public health; dementia and aging; methodology, meta-analysis, and systematic review; geriatric epidemiology; caregiver health; injury research and prevention.
Google Scholar Link
Parminder Raina
PhD
Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: Epidemiology; population health / public health; dementia and aging; methodology, meta-analysis, and systematic review; geriatric epidemiology; caregiver health; injury research and prevention.
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