Biography – IPPH Scientific Director: Dr. Katherine Frohlich
Dr. Katherine Frohlich has been appointed Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health for a term of four years, effective September 1, 2023.
Dr. Frohlich is a Professor of Health Promotion at Université de Montréal's Department of Social and Preventive Medicine and School of Public Health, as well as an associate researcher at the Université de Montréal-affiliated Centre for Research in Public Health. Funded for over 20 years by both CIHR and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Dr. Frohlich is an interdisciplinary scholar who seeks to better understand and reduce social inequities in health for young people in cities.
Her work straddles the fields of health promotion, social epidemiology, sociology of health and health geography. Dr. Frohlich co-holds the Myriagone McConnell-Université de Montréal Chair on Youth Knowledge Mobilization with colleagues from Université de Montréal's Faculty of Arts and Science. She also directs a large-scale population-health intervention research program called Levelling the Playing Fields. This program focuses on the interplay between urban planning and health promotion to provide better opportunities for children and young people to play freely outdoors, increase their independent mobility, use of active transportation, and better access urban spaces.
She has directed both the Masters and PhD programmes in public health at the Université de Montréal, helping to obtain accreditation with the Council on Education in Public Health (CEPH) for both during her tenures. Dr. Frohlich sits on the editorial boards of two scientific journals: Health & Place and Social Science & Medicine.
As Scientific Director of IPPH, Dr. Frohlich will develop and advance research initiatives that address population and public health priorities in Canada, while supporting the implementation of CIHR's Strategic Plan.
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