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Blair

Robert

Medicine

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Aboriginal Issues, Addictions, Adolescence, Aging, Alternative Medicine, Brain, Cancer, Children, Depression, Disabled Persons, Education, Exercise, Health Care, Medicine, Mental Health, Orthopedics, Physiology, Psychiatry, Psychology, Schizophrenia, Sex/Sexuality, Sports, Stress, Suicide, Young Offenders

Yoga. Addiction, Posture, Meditation

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Frankish

James

College for Interdisciplinary Studies; Healthcare & Epidemiology

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Ethics, Health Care, Human Behavior, Literacy, Mental Health, Suicide

population health, homelessness, health disparities, literacy and health, health literacy, health promotion, Olympics and healthy communities, health-system regionalization

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Garland

Jane

Medicine

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Adolescence, Children, Depression, Health Care, Medicine, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Suicide

anxiety; depression; in adolescence; depression and adolescents

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Hewitt

Paul

Arts

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Depression, Mental Health, Psychology, Suicide

perfectionism

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Hillock

Susan

Social Work and Family Studies

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Adolescence, Aging, Children, Death, Depression, Disabled Persons, Education, Ethics, Families, Gay and Lesbian Issues, Health Care, Human Behavior, Mental Health, Politics, Racism/Race Relations, Sex/Sexuality, Suicide, Teaching, Women's Issues, Young Offenders

Structural social work, feminism, queer theory, equality, women's issues, equity, critical theory, anti-oppressive practice,anti-racism,diversity,social work education, social justice, social action, adult education,counselling with individuals, couples, families, and communities,resistance, aging, death and dying,ethics,palliative care, suicide intervention,socialism, sexuality, spirituality,oppression.

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Kang

Shimi

Medicine

Punjabi, Hindi

Abortion, Addictions, Adolescence, Asian Affairs, Brain, Communications, Depression, Education, Families, Health Care, Human Behavior, Human Rights, Immigration, India, Media, Medicine, Mental Health, Multiculturalism, Psychiatry, Psychology, Racism/Race Relations, Schizophrenia, Sex/Sexuality, Smoking, Sports, Stress, Students, Suicide, Teaching, Television, Women's Issues

Mental health, addictions, substance use, motivation, culture, women's health, youth health, diversity, psychiatry,

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kang-dhaliwal

neelu

Arts

Punjabi, Hindi, rdu

Abortion, Addictions, Adolescence, Aging, Agriculture, AIDS, Bilingualism, Canada, Children, Communications, Community Planning, Consumers, Culture, Death, Depression, Drugs, Education, English as a Second Language, Families, Film, Fine Arts, Gangs, Health Care, Human Rights, Immigration, India, Media, Multiculturalism, Psychology, Racism/Race Relations, Religion, Research and Development, Sex/Sexuality, Sociology, Stress, Suicide, Teaching, Television, Theatre, Third World, Tourism, Women's Issues

Indian/Punjabi/Sikh diaspora,Violence against women( public and domestic), women activism/welfare/status/movement in India and Canada, Indian/Punjabi family, culture, traditions,Sikh life style and patterns,rural and agricultural India/Punjab,indebtedness in Punjab, Punjab's history and economy,Punjabi immigration and history in Canada and other countries,Popular Indian/Punjabi media and films,aging population of Indians in Canada, cultural reproduction of Indians/Punjabis in diaspora, Indo-Canadian legal, social and cultural issues

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Lam

Raymond

Medicine

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Brain, Depression, Drugs, Health Care, Medicine, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Suicide, Work

seasonal affective disorder; winter depression; antidepressant medications; light therapy; depression; clinical guidelines; circadian rhythms; melatonin; serotonin; dopamine; noradrenaline; tryptophan; workplace depression

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McCormick

Rod

Education

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Aboriginal Issues, Alternative Medicine, Education, Mental Health, Psychology, Research and Development, Suicide

Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Residential school healing, First Nations and Indian health, Aboriginal health research, Aboriginal mental health, Indigenous psychology, traditional healing, healing and nature, Aboriginal career counselling, Aboriginal suicide prevention, Aboriginal grief and loss, Aboriginal education

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Myers

Michael

Medicine

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Depression, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Suicide

Physician health, suicide

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Oliffe

John

Applied Science

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AIDS, Cancer, Culture, Depression, Health Care, Human Behavior, Mental Health, Nursing, Research and Development, Smoking, Suicide

men's health, men's depression, suicide, prostate cancer, men's sexual health, immigrant men's heart health, gender and health, men's smoking, cancer communication'

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Saewyc

Elizabeth

Applied Science

English

Addictions, Adolescence, Drugs, Gay and Lesbian Issues, Health Care, Medicine, Mental Health, Nursing, Sex/Sexuality, Suicide

Homeless or street involved youth, sexual minority youth, sexual exploitation of youth, stigma, discrimination, trauma and resilience.

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Shariff

Aneesa

Counselling Services

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Depression, Families, Human Behavior, Mental Health, Multiculturalism, Psychology, Racism/Race Relations, Stress, Students, Suicide

mental health, students, anxiety, depression, cross cultural therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, emotional wellbeing, young adults, suicide, stress

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Smye

Victoria

Nursing

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Aboriginal Issues, Addictions, Culture, Ethics, Mental Health, Nursing, Racism/Race Relations, Suicide, Women's Issues

Aboriginal mental health, culture and health, mental health, addictions, women's mental health, ethnography, social justice, health policy

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Tester

Frank J.

Social Work and Family Studies

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Aboriginal Issues, Free Trade, International Studies, Pollution, Third World, Waste Management, Africa, Canada, Economics, Environment, Free Trade, Suicide, Trade, Water, Environment

expecially Nunaunt and Inuit of Eastern Arctic; Canadian social policy; international development; global financial institutions; international development work and issues affecting health, economic well-being; Canadian environmental issues; history, geography, politics; global trade issues; in general but for Aboriginal people

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