FNEHIN - First Nations Environmental Health Innovation Network

Expertise:

Tobacco Reduction, Cancer Screening, Risk Reduction Related to Hereditary Breast Cancer, Health Promotion

Focus:

Gender Influences and Health Promotion, Smoking Cessation, Indoor Air Quality, Cancer Prevention

Affiliations:

Professor, Faculty of Health & Social Development, and Director, Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention, University of British Columbia - Okanagan Campus

Academic Supervisor (if Applicable)

Research Area(s)

Indoor Air Quality

Geographical Preference(s)

British Columbia

Projects

• Messages for young women about tobacco exposure and breast cancer: Phase I
• Development of a decision aid for patients diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast
• Tobacco Reduction Initiatives for Young Pregnant and Parenting Aboriginal Women and Their Children
• A Gender Analysis of Tobacco Use in Families during Pregnancy, Postpartum and Early Childhood FACET2
• Women
• Tobacco use in intimate spaces: Issues in the qualitative study of couple dynamics
• Tobacco use in intimate spaces: Issues in the qualitative study of couple dynamics.
• How tobacco use is embedded in couple interactions.
• Unraveling women
• Women
• Cervical cancer screening in ethnocultural groups: Case studies in women-centred care.
• Voices of immigrant South Asian women: Expressions of health concerns.
• Narratives of smoking relapse: The stories of postpartum women.
• Falling through the cracks: Women