Professor and Associate Director; Research, Dalhousie University

Ingrid Sketris is a Professor of Pharmacy at Dalhousie University. She was President of the Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada and is a fellow of the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. She is one of 12 chairs funded by CHSRF/CIHR as part of the Capacity for Applied Developmental Research and Evaluation in Health Services program. Her research involves examining approaches to increase the uptake of evidence-based drug therapies and the effectiveness of policy levers used by pharmacare programs to provide effective and affordable ...

Professor of Medicine (Geriatric Medicine & Neurology), Dalhousie University

Kenneth Rockwood is Professor of Medicine (Geriatric Medicine & Neurology) and Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer Research at Dalhousie University. He is a leader in Canadian geriatric medicine, and in particular, has pioneered work on the definition, measurement and management of frailty. As a clinical and epidemiological researcher on the dementias, he has focused on novel risk factors (such as the protective effects of exercise) and on individualized outcome measurement. The latter has provided a practicable means whereby patients with Alzheimers disease, and their families, have ...

Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance, Simon Fraser University

Professor Lee (BA, MPA, MA, DPhil, DLitt) is a Tier 1 CRC trained in International Relations and Public Administration focusing on international political economy. She spent 20+ years at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she was a core member of two donor-led studies of WHO reform during the 1990s; co-established the WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Change and Health; and chaired the WHO Resource Group on Globalization, Trade and Health. Dr Lee led a 10-year effort to secure public access to British-based tobacco industry documents. She joined the SFU Faculty of ...

Professor and Vice-Dean School of Public Health, University of Alberta

Dr. Davis, professor and vice-dean in the University of Alberta's School of Public Health received her PhD in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale University in 1984 and, in addition to the CAHS fellowship, is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology. She has over 175 publications in cancer epidemiology, primarily on topics involving rare cancers. She had a distinguished career at the University of Illinois-Chicago prior to returning to Canada in 2012. While there, she served as division director of epidemiology and biostatistics, senior associate dean and associate dean of ...