Cordell Neudorf

Assistant Professor
Chief Medical Health Officer, Saskatoon Health Region

Office: RUH 2738
Phone: 306-966-2276  
E-mail: cory.neudorf@usask.ca
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Punam Pahwa

Professor

Office: RUH 2741
Phone: 306-966-7941  
E-mail:
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Kalyani Premkumar

Associate Professor

Office: RUH 2684
Phone: 306-966 1409  
Email: kalyani.premkumar@usask.ca
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Bruce Reeder

Professor

Office: RUH 2742
Phone: 306-966-7934  
E-mail: bruce.reeder@usask.ca
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Lilian Thorpe

Professor (Part-time) Community Health and Epidemiology
Clinical Professor (Psychiatry)

Office: RUH 2746
Telephone: 306-655-7997  
E-mail: lilian.thorpe@saskatoonhealthregion.ca
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Stephen Whitehead

Assistant Professor

Office: RUH 2750
Phone: 306-966-5655  
E-mail: stephen.whitehead@usask.ca
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Professor Emeritus

Dr. Brian Habbick
Dr. Leonard Tan

• Congratulations to the Global Health Travel Award Recipients in Community Health and Epidemiology. 
  
  Global Health Travel Award for Faculty in the College of Medicine: Cory Neudorf - explore a potential collaboration between the WHO Europe Office and Canada on comparative data on health disparities and social determinants of health. Lori Hanson - development of a new site in Nicaragua for the international practicum component of the Making the Links – Certificate in Global Health program.

• Generation Squeezed: study released at U of S say today’s families staggering under the pressure

• Canadian parents today are raising families with less money and time than the baby boomer generation even though the country’s economy has doubled in size since 1976, says a new study. released at the University of Saskatchewan on October 18.
  

  Paul Kershaw of the University of British Columbia released the study with Nazeem Muhajarine and members of his Healthy Children research team at the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU), through their early years network, kidSKAN.
  
  
  

•   Dr. Kalyani Premkumar, Educational Support and Development, Associate Professor in Community Health & Epidemiology was awarded the 2011 Provost’s Outstanding Teaching Award for the College of Medicine; She was also appointed by the AFMC Board of Directors to Chair the Resource Group on Faculty Development. 

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SPHERU granted $750,000 to study foundations of healthy communities (January 2011). This funding supports SPHERU’s continued commitment to critical population health and community-based research. Led by researchers Bonnie Jeffery at the U of R and Nazeem Muhajarine* at the U of S, the group has a permanent presence in Saskatoon, Regina, and Prince Albert, and conducts research with communities across the province.

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  Dr. Lori Hanson, assistant professor in Community Health & Epidemiology, was awarded a 2010-2011 Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation (SHRF) New Investigator Establishment Grant during an awards ceremony on December 2, 2010.  Dr. Hanson is exploring how midwifery care can be implemented in an equitable and accessible way.
  
  
  

• Award-winning Professor.  Dr. Rachel-Engler Stringer, assistant professor in Community Health & Epidemiology, has been awarded a SHRF New Investigator award for her work on examining the food environment in Saskatoon for families with children.
  
  
  

• Two 2010-2011 Research Connections Grants were awarded from the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation to Anne Leis, professor in Community Health & Epidemiology  for her 10th Annual SK Cancer Research Day and the two day event in motion/en mouvement National Physical Activity Institute.
  
  

• Dr. Kalyani Premkumar awarded a 2010 College of Medicine Excellence in Teaching Award November 3, 2010. Please join us in congratulating Kalyani for being awarded a 2010 College of Medicine Excellence in Teaching award. The citation mentioned the unique and strong contribution Kalyani has made to the teaching mission of the College and that both students and faculty colleagues appreciate the contributions that have been made. The presentation was made during faculty council and Kalyani (centre) is pictured here receiving her plaque from Dean Albritton (right) to commemorate the occasion while Dr. Jay Kalra (left), chair of faculty council, looks on.
  
  
  

• Dr. Sylvia Abonyi reappointed as the Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Health
  The Department of Community Health and Epidemiology is proud to congratulate Dr. Sylvia Abonyi,  Associate Professor, on her reappointment as the Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Health.  This is a prestigious award is worth $500,000 towards her research.  The official event was held on Friday, March 26, 2010,  in the Atrium at Agriculture Building on campus. Read more about the award....
  
  Dr. Sylvia Abonyi accepts her appointment.
  photo credit: Debra Marshall for the U of S
  
   

  Tool Kit for Community Health: Sylvia Abonyi, Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Health
  and associate professor at the U of S department of Community Health and Epidemiology
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• U of S Participates in $19.5-M National Study into Childhood Brain Disorders.  "With $1 million from the NCE over five years, U of S early childhood expert Nazeem Muhajarine will lead a team that will share with Canada’s health care professionals, researchers, affected families, and the general public the best research and evidence on ways to identify, treat, and prevent brain disorders in children."