Two faculty members received the CJG Mackenzie Prize for Excellence in Teaching from the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH).
Craig Mitton, Associate Professor at SPPH, is a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar. The focus of his research is in the application of health economics to impact real-world decision making in health organizations. Dr. Mitton teaches SPPH’s 581D: Health Care Priority Setting, 532: Health Economics (with Professor Stirling Bryan and Associate Professor Stuart Peacock) and EMBA 598: Economics, ethics and health care priority setting.
Chris McLeod, Assistant Professor at SPPH, is the co-research lead of the Partnership for Work, Health and Safety at SPPH. His research focuses on the program and policy evaluation of occupational health policies and practices and on the causes and consequences of work-related injury and disease. He is also a content data expert for Population Data BC and is actively working on developing and extending the occupational health data available to researchers through Population Data BC. Dr. McLeod teaches SPPH’s 527: Social Determinants of Health and 525: Issues and Concepts in Public Health.
The CJG Mackenzie Prize for Excellence in Teaching is named in honour of Dr. Cortlandt JG Mackenzie, Professor Emeritus at SPPH. Dr. Mackenzie was Acting Chairman of the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology from 1969 – 1973 and Head of the Department from 1973 – 1980. His research interests included the epidemiology of infectious and non-infectious diseases, occupational and environmental diseases and the analysis of historical data. Dr. Mackenzie presented the awards at the SPPH Reception on September 13th.