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Department of Community Health Sciences ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017 MAX RADY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE Department of Community Health Sciences ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017 1 I am pleased again to present the annual report for the awards; our graduate students continue to excel. With respect to Department of Community Health Sciences for the year April undergraduate teaching on the Fort Garry Campus, the Bachelor 2016 to March 2017. of Health Sciences and Bachelor of Health Studies programs are growing, and in the 2017-18 academic year, we expect to set The Department has continued to grow, with five new full- another record for student admission into these programs. The time faculty members having joined in the past year (Ties Department’s Population Health course in the undergraduate Boerma, Michael Pickles, Audrey Swift, Tamara Taillieu and medical education program continues to evolve, with a higher Marcelo Urquia). Ties, Michael and Marcelo are all Canada proportion of teaching hours going to small group sessions and Research Chairs (CRCs), and will make major contributions assigned studies. A new Service Learning program has been to the Department’s research efforts. Audrey and Tamara are introduced, and has been well received, as well as a new Physician both full-time Instructors in the undergraduate education Development Curriculum in the clerkship years. program, teaching in both the Family Social Sciences program and the Interdisciplinary Health Program, and will make Major external reviews of three large Departmental units and major contributions to the quality of teaching and the student programs took place over the past year: the CHS graduate experience. The Department is in the process of applying program; the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy; and the for additional CRCs in the coming year, as well as a Canada Manitoba Training Centre for Health Services Research. All of Excellence in Research Chair (CERC). Overall, faculty members these reviews were very positive, and their recommendations will in Community Health Sciences attracted 66 new research grants be acted upon to strengthen the programs going forward. and contracts in FY 2016/17, with total value over $68 million. There is a host of information in this annual report, covering the Other markers of faculty achievement include Salah Mahmud broad range of CHS activities, and I wish to congratulate all CHS and Tracie Afifi being inducted into the Royal Society of Canada faculty, students and staff on another successful year. College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists; and Judy Bartlett, a recently retired CHS faculty member, being made a member of the Order of Canada. We had a large graduate student intake in the 2016/17 academic year, including 17 Masters and 3 PhD students, and are expecting an even larger intake in 2017-18, with 19 Masters and 14 PhD students having accepted admission, our largest entering group ever. Remarkably, 39 of our graduate students received awards in Stephen Moses, MD, MPH 2016/17, including 8 Tricouncil awards and 5 Research Manitoba Head of Department 2 CHS Mission 4 CHS Goals 4 ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT 5 a. Full Time Faculty 5 b. Part Time Faculty 7 c. Support Staff - Departmental 11 d. Financial Overview 12 e. Organisational Chart 12 f. Faculty and Staff Awards 12 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS 14 a. Undergraduate Studies Programs i. Family Social Sciences Program (FSS) 14 ii. Interdisciplinary Health Program (IHP) 14 b. Undergraduate Medical Education Program (UGME) 15 c. Graduate Program 16 d. Residency in Public Health and Preventive Medicine 19 TRAINING PROGRAMS 19 a. Manitoba Training Program for Health Service Research 19 b. Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship Program 19 c. The International Infectious Disease and Global Health Training Program 22 DEPARTMENTAL AWARDS 23 a. Jack A. Hildes Memorial Award 23 b. David G. Fish Memorial Scholarship 23 c. Dr. Christine Egan Memorial Scholarship 23 d. Evelyn Shapiro Award for Health Services Research 23 e. Roos Prize for Best Publication in Population Health 23 DEPARTMENTAL UNITS 23 a. Centre for Global Public Health (CGPH) b. Community Engagement 24 i. Alan Klass Memorial Program for Health Equity 24 ii. Community Partnerships and Programs 25 iii. Opportunities for Bannatyne Students 26 iv. Biomedical Youth Program 27 v. WISH Clinic 28 c. Critical Social Science Group 28 d. Data Science Platform, George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation 33 e. Health Economics 34 f. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) 34 g. Manitoba Follow-Up Study (MFUS) 38 h. Vaccine and Drug Evaluation Centre (VDEC) 39 i. Section of First Nations, Metis and Inuit Health 41 i. Centre for Aboriginal Health Education (CAHE) 41 ii. J.A. Hildes Northern Medical Unit 42 iii. Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research (MFN CAHR) 44 OTHER ACADEMIC STAFF 45 PUBLICATIONS 51 a. Books, Book Chapters and Book Reviews 51 b. Journal Articles 52 c. Reports and Conference Publications 59 d. Presentations 60 e. Posters, OpEd, Interviews and Government Briefings 69 f. CHS Colloquium – Bold Ideas Series 70 APPENDIX 1 – NEW RESEARCH FUNDS 74 APPENDIX 2 – ON-GOING RESEARCH FUNDS 75 3 DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES / ANNUAL REPORT MISSION To create, preserve, and communicate knowledge with respect to the health of populations and thereby contribute to the physical, psychological, cultural, social, and economic well– being of the people of Manitoba, Canada, and the world. GOALS • To fulfill its mission, the Department of Community Health Sciences strives: • To provide the highest quality education, employing a population–based approach to health and health care. • To play a leadership role in ensuring that all undergraduate teaching in the Faculty has a population health and critical appraisal perspective and preventive focus where appropriate. • To enhance student success by fostering an environment conducive to intellectual growth. • To conduct original scholarship and applied research in the area of population health of the highest quality as judged by international standards. • To serve the community by making its expertise available and where appropriate by providing exemplary service models to individuals, communities, institutions and governments to the fullest extent. 4 ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT FULL–TIME FACULTY Tracie Afifi, BSc, MSc, PhD (Manitoba) Brenda Elias, MA, PhD (Manitoba) Associate Professor | [email protected] Associate Professor | [email protected] Epidemiology of child maltreatment and intimate partner violence; problem Aboriginal health; mixed methods studies (qualitative/quantitative) gambling; mental health; suicide Lawrence J. Elliott, MD, MSc (Manitoba), CCFP (Dalhousie), FRCPC Marcia Anderson DeCoteau, BSc (Winnipeg), MD (Manitoba), MPH Associate Professor | [email protected] (Johns Hopkins), FRCPC Epidemiology and control of infectious diseases; multiple sclerosis Assistant Professor | Section Head, First Nations, Métis and Inuit Health | [email protected] Evelyn L. Forget, BA (Hons) (Glendon College), MA, PhD (Toronto) Aboriginal health; health policy Professor | [email protected] Cost effectiveness analysis; healthcare financing; health economics; health Lisa Avery, BSc (McGill), MD (Manitoba), MIH (University of effects of public policy Copenhagen), FRCSC Assistant Professor | [email protected] Melinda Fowler, BSc, MD (McMaster University) Sexual and reproductive health; maternal, neonatal and child health; health Assistant Professor | [email protected] inequities and social determinants of health; global health; quality of health care Increasing Indigenous students in healthcare; addictions/chronic pain; social Jamie F. Blanchard, BSc (Med), MD determinants of health and how they impact Indigenous patients (global (Manitoba), MPH, PhD (Johns Hopkins) health issues within our own country) Professor | Director, Centre for Global Public Health (CGPH) Randy Fransoo, BSc, MSc, PhD (Manitoba) [email protected] Assistant Professor | [email protected] Epidemiology of diabetes; HIV/AIDS prevention in developing countries; Health services research; social determinants of health; knowledge translation; international health child health and development; cardiovascular epidemiology Ties Boerma, MD (Groningen, Netherland), PhD (Amsterdam) Shiva Halli, BSc, MSc (India), PhD (Western Ontario) Professor | [email protected] Professor | [email protected] Monitoring and evaluation; health information; HIV/AIDS; maternal and International health especially migration as a risk factor in the spread of child health; international health HIV/STDs infection; immigrants’ health in Canada; violence against women; Douglas A. Brownridge, BA (Brandon), MA, PhD (Manitoba) international demography Professor | [email protected] Andrew Hatala, PhD (University of Saskatchewan) Epidemiology of family violence Assistant Professor | [email protected] Sharon Bruce, BN, MA, PhD (Manitoba) Indigenous or traditional forms of medicine and healing; youth resilience and Associate Professor | [email protected] well–being; culture and spirituality; qualitative health research; community– Medical anthropology; diabetes epidemiology; health of aboriginal peoples based research Robert M. Chase, BSc (Toronto), CCFP, FRCPC, MSc (McMaster) Chelsea Jalloh, MEd (Manitoba) Assistant Professor | [email protected] Instructor II and Coordinator of UGME | [email protected] Occupational health—musculoskeletal injuries; international health—war
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