Three New Promotions!

Dr. Helen Brown, Professor

Professor Brown's research program brings a critical perspective to rural Indigenous health and employs community-based participatory approaches for academic-community partnership with BC First Nations to advance health equity within local contexts. Using participatory and decolonizing methodologies and ethnographic methods to best answer community-defined research questions, her research projects include a focus on women's community safety and social inclusion, youth mental health, restorative justice, Indigenous cultural continuity, social determinants of health, the ongoing community effects of colonialism, regalia making and language revitalization as community health promotion, and incarcerated Indigenous men's mental health and rehabilitation.

Dr. Kristen Haase, Associate Professor

Associate Professor Haase's research centres on understanding the experiences of older adults as they manage cancer, chronic disease, and well-being. Her current projects focus on two main areas: 

1. supporting older adults with cancer and their carers and 
2. leveraging technology to support people with cancer and other chronic diseases. 

Through her research, she engages older adults with lived experience of cancer and chronic disease to co-lead the development of community-based interventions to improve quality of life and well-being. Dr. Haase is the co-chair of the Canadian Network on Aging and Cancer and co-lead of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology Nursing and Allied Health group.  

Dr. Naz Havaei, Associate Professor

Associate Professor Havaei is a health system researcher, a Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar (2021-2026), and the founder and director of the Healthy Outcomes by improving Patient and Provider Experiences Lab (HOPELab) at UBC. Dr. Havaei has a passion for exploring and addressing workplace and policy factors that enable healthy outcomes for providers, patients, and healthcare organizations. She is recognized as an emerging leader in health system research and has contributed to policy, practice and media platforms that support knowledge mobilization and research impact. To date, Dr. Havaei’s program of research has received over $8 million in funding support from local, provincial and national funding agencies as primary or co-investigator, resulting in nearly 50 peer-reviewed publications and over 50 conference presentations. Dr. Havaei teaches nursing leadership at the undergraduate and graduate levels.