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AHMED, Rukhsana »
Ph.D.
Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
Communication
Contact information:
Office: 613-562-5800 (3834)
E-mail: rahmed@uOttawa.ca
Website
Preferred method s of contact:
E-mail, Office Telephone
Research information:
Dr. Rukhsana Ahmed’s research embraces the cross/trans/inter-disciplinary nature of communication scholarship, with specific focus on exploring the role of communication processes in improving health outcomes among marginalized communities and promoting broader social changes in international health contexts. She is particularly interested in the ways in which systems of beliefs, values, actions, and symbols are shared, or not, by people and how social groups influence communication in health care interactions. She is also interested in the ways in which people’s cultural selves become entwined with race, ethnicity, gender, and social class groups and shape their perceptions of health, illness, and health care. Although her research is deeply rooted in health communication, Dr. Ahmed is also actively involved in interdisciplinary and multisectoral projects and partnerships in other realms of communication, including immigrant integration, multicultural media, and religious diversity.Area(s) of expertise:
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- Health communications
- Immigration
- Intercultural communication
- International development
- International health
- Organizational communications
- Women and development
- Women and health
Language preference:
English only, Bengali
BANERJEE, Nipa »
PhD.
Senior fellow
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of International Development and Global Studies
Contact information:
Office: 613-562-5800 (4531)
Cell: 613-697-9814
Home: 613-842-9814
E-mail: nipa.banerjee@uOttawa.ca
Preferred method s of contact:
E-mail, Home Telephone, Cell Telephone
Research information:
Foreign Aid; Aid Effectiveness; Development Issues-South and South East Asia; Development Issues in Post Conflict Countries and Peace Building Measures; Fragile & Conflict States; Development and Reconstruction in Afghanistan. More than 40 years of experience with CIDA, IDRC and NGOs. Lived and worked several years as a professional in several South and South East Asian Countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar). Travelled widely and continues to make quarterly visits (especially Afghanistan, Bangladesh and India) and other developing countries for research purposes.
Area(s) of expertise:
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- Afghanistan
- Asian history
- Democracy and democratization
- Development
- Economic development
- Food security
- Foreign aid
- Foreign aid
- Globalization
- India
- International development
- International development and globalization
- International political economy
- International political economy
- International projects
- International relations
- Operations/project management
- Performance measurement
- Performance measures
- Political economy
- Project management
- Rural development
- Social change
- Social policy
- Southeast Asia
- Sustainable development
- Women and development
Language preference:
English only, Bengali; Hindi; Urdu
FOSTER, Angel »
Associate professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
Interdisciplinary School of Health sciences
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Office: 613-562-5800 (2316)
Cell: 617-417-9974
E-mail: angel.foster@uottawa.ca
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Dr. Angel M. Foster holds a DPhil (doctorate) in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and an AM (master's degree) from Stanford University. She has conducted multi-methods research on women’s health in Burma, Canada, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Thailand, Tunisia, and the United States. Her current research focuses on expanding access to emergency contraception, increasing access to safe, high quality, and affordable abortion services, improving the reproductive health training of health service professionals, and Identifying and addressing the reproductive health needs of vulnerable populations including young/unmarried women and refugees/displaced women. She has published more than 50 articles, book chapters, and technical reports on women's health and her first book, Emergency contraception: The story of a global reproductive health technology, was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2012 (co-edited with L.L. Wynn). Her next book, Abortion pills, test tube babies & sex toys: Emerging sexual and reproductive health technologies in the Middle East and North Africa, will soon be published by Vanderbilt University Press.
Area(s) of expertise:
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- Abortion
- Anthropology
- Ethics
- Health
- Health policy
- Health research
- International development
- International health
- Middle East
- Other
- Population health
- Women and development
- Women and health
- Women’s health
Language preference:
English and French , Arabic
GILES, Audrey R. »
Assistant Professor
Assistant professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics
Contact information:
Office: 613-562-5800 (2988)
Home: 613-845-0092
E-mail: audrey.giles@uOttawa.ca
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E-mail, Home Telephone, Office Telephone
Research information:
Dr. Giles' research examines Aboriginal people's (though especially women's) participation in physical activity, sport, and recreation in the NWT, Nunavut, and Northern Alberta. Her expertise pertains to traditional games, gender, "tradition," and drowning prevention. Sport for development in Aboriginal communities.
Area(s) of expertise:
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- Anthropology
- Feminist politics and theory
- Health research
- Human kinetics
- Human kinetics
- Physical activity
- Population health
- Postcolonial studies
- Sport
- Women and development
- Women and health
- Women’s health
Language preference:
English only, Intermediate/Advanced French
MCGILL, Jena »
Professor
Assistant professor
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
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Office: 613-562-5800 ext 7905
E-mail: jena.mcgill@uottawa.ca
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My main fields of research include constitutional law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (particularly equality), human rights, gender, sexuality and feminist legal thought. I also do targeted work on international human rights norms related to gender and sexuality with a focus on the United Nations system.
Area(s) of expertise:
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- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Abortion
- Constitutional law
- Feminist ethics
- Gender discrimination
- Human rights
- International human rights law
- Sex/sexuality
- Social justice
- Women and development
- Women and law
Language preference:
English only
PONGOU, Roland »
Assistant professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contact information:
Office: 613-562-5800 (7067)
Cell: 613-805-6019
Home: 613-424-6019
E-mail: rpongou@uottawa.ca
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Research information:
Social networks, spread of HIV/AIDS, gender gap in HIV/AIDS prevalence, sex and gender gap in infant mortality, gender gap in schooling
Area(s) of expertise:
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- Applied mathematics
- Diasporas and Remittances
- Economics
- Education
- Epidemiology and community medicine
- Family and health
- Foreign aid
- Gender discrimination
- Health economics
- International health
- Microeconomics
- Political economy
- Population health
- Sustainable development
- Women and development
- Women’s health
Language preference:
English and French
RAMISCH, Joshua »
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contact information:
Office: 613-562-5800 (4421)
E-mail: jramisch@uOttawa.ca
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E-mail, Office Telephone
Research information:
Food security, agriculture, food policy, food aid, peasant farming, globalization, international development, development project management, African environmental issues, African social change, Kenya, Mali, Uganda, Tanzania, NGOs in Africa.
Area(s) of expertise:
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- Anthropology
- Climate change
- Colonization
- Ecology
- Globalization
- International development and globalization
- International trade and environment
- Postcolonial studies
- Project management
- Social change
- Soils
- Women and development
Language preference:
English and French
SIMON, Scott »
School of International Development and Global Studies /École de développement international et mondialisation
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Sociology
Contact information:
Office: 613-562-5800 (1363)
Cell: 613-262-1887
E-mail: ssimon@uOttawa.ca
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E-mail, Office Telephone
Research information:
I specialize in the study of political economy. I do research on questions of economic development in Taiwan, including female entrepreneurship and development in the indigenous Austronesian communities of the island. I also work on questions of ethnic identity and nationalism, issues that are crucial to understanding relations between Taiwan and China.Area(s) of expertise:
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Language preference:
English and French , mandarin, japonais, Allemand / Mandarin, Japanese, German
VLASSOFF, Carol »
Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
Epidemiology and Community Medicine
Contact information:
Cell: 6132613307
Home: 8199865057
E-mail: cvlassof@uottawa.ca
Preferred method of contact:
Office Telephone
Research information:
My main research is on gender inequalities, especially in the developing world. I have just finished a book, Gender Equality and Inequality in Rural India, Blessed with a Son, that is about son preference in rural India and why it persists despite a great deal of social and economic progress. I am also teaching a course on international health with a focus on improving health systems worldwide.
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Language preference:
English only, Spanish
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