About the group:
the Scientific Advisory Group consists of scientists with international experience and a variety of backgrounds in research and policy in public health and the biological, behavioural and/or social sciences. Each scientist advises on the development of the Tuke Institute's scientific portfolio and participates in various research projects, in tandem with partner-organisations and -universities.
Professor Jacqueline Gahagan
Jacqueline Gahagan is Full Professor of Health Promotion and a member of the School of Health and Human Performance at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where she leads a scientific programme on Gender and Health Promotion Studies, among others. She holds cross appointments in Community Health and Epidemiology, Gender and Women’s Studies, International Development Studies, and Nursing.
The primary areas of her scientific research are the sociology of medicine and public health, particularly health-promotion and harm-reduction, including women’s health and gender-based analysis, health-policy, scientific ethics, program-monitoring and -evaluation in relation to the social and behavioural aspects of STI/HIV/Hepatitis C prevention and treatment, nationally and internationally.
Additionally, she has extensive experience in the areas of socially marginalised groups in Canada, including aboriginal peoples, injecting drug-users, street-involved youth, and sex-trade workers, for which she received the Dr. Alan Cohen Memorial Award for Community Service presented by the Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University. She has provided invited presentations in Canada, USA, Africa (Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania) and Europe.
Professor Emeritus Max Heirich
Max Heirich is Professor and Research Scientist Emeritus at the University of Michigan and director of the Worker Health Program at the University's Institute for Research on Labor, Employment and the Economy. He has been a consultant on medical policy to committees of the U.S. Senate, the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, the Michigan State Senate, Merck Pharmaceutical Company, the United Auto Workers, Ford, General Motors, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He co-founded the University of Michigan’s Health Policy Forum, and was the first chair of the Advisory Board for the University of Michigan Medical School's Center for Integrated Medicine.
Professor Heirich has had research grants from the National Institutes of Health's Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Public Health system's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. He coauthored an NIH-sponsored manual, a research-based, step-by-step guide for doing worksite cardiovascular wellness programs, and later chaired a working group of nineteen national organizations that drew up recommended guidelines for worksite health-promotion. The Worker Health Program’s Wellness Outreach at Work program has been designated a Model Program by the U.S.Public Health Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
He is the author of several books, including "Rethinking Health Care: Innovation and change in America" (1998) and "Health Care Policy: Understanding our options" (1998), co-edited with Marilynn Rosenthal, and numerous articles, including "Worksite Cardiovascular Programs as a Route to Substance Abuse Prevention," co-authored with Cynthia Sieck, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, January, 2000 pp 47-56. For more than twenty years, he has been designing and introducing various kinds of worksite wellness-programs and evaluating their effectiveness.
Professor Marie Johnston
Marie Johnston is Professor in the School of Psychology in the College of Life Sciences and Medicine at the University of Aberdee, Scotland, as well as Professor at the Institute of Applied Health Sciences at the School of Medicine there. She is a member of the UK's Medical Research Council's interdisciplinary Health Services Research Collaboration in Bristol, a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Society of Behavioural Medicine, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and of the Academy of Medical Sciences, as well as an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.
Her research is in health psychology and health services research. Throughout her career, she has worked on disability and in behavioural medicine, specifically the development and evaluation of psychological treatment for people with physical illnesses and those receiving medical and surgical interventions. Her current research focuses on two areas: disability, and the behaviour of health professionals in the implementation of evidence-based practice. Her theoretical interests are in the measurement of disability, in the explanation of activity limitations and in the development and application of psychological theory to health professional behaviour. In addition, based on more theoretical work, she develops and evaluates interventions designed to enhance health outcomes.
Professor Ursula Karl-Trummer
Professor Karl-Trummer is head of the Centre for Health and Migration at the University of the Danube at Krems, Austria, where she . In addition to a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Political Science, a Masters degree in Socioeconomic Sciences, another Masters degree in Organisational Development and Counselling, she received her PhD in Social Science with a thesis on "New Paradigms and Traditional Role-Models" Enabling Factors and Obstacles for/to a Patient Oriented Health Care".
From 1993 to 1996, she was a Junior Scientist at the Institute for Applied Sociology, Vienna, and 1995-96 at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department for Sociology and Social Anthropology. From 1996, she has been the General Manager of the Trummer&Novak-Zezula OEG “InVivio – Transdisciplinary Research and Development” and from 1998 to 2008, she was a researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Sociology of Health and Medicine (LBISHM), the WHO-Cooperation Center (www.univie.ac.at/lbimgs) and, from 2000, she has been a Senior Scientist and member of the steering board there.
She is a lecturer at various Universities, Independent Expert to the European Commission, DG Sanco and DG Research, Consultant for the German Ministry for Education and Science. Her main fields of research in Migration and Health, Organisational Development, Sustainable Development of Healthy Settings, and Transdisciplinary Research.
Professor James Wiley
Professor James Wiley was appointed Professor of Sociology and Director of Public Research Institute (PRI) at San Francisco State University in 2002. He is Project Director on the new Research Infrastructure in Minority Institutions Grant from NIH’s National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities. His current research focuses on two topics: interconnections between social science and public health and building bridges between quantitative and qualitative methods.
From 1974 to 1980 he conducted research on life style and longevity as Research Director of the Human Population Laboratory of the California Department of Health Services. In 1980 he became Assistant Director and Research Sociologist at the Survey Research Center (SRC) of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served for 19 years as Principal Investigator on a variety of large-scale survey projects and taught graduate courses on methods of research in the Sociology Department. While at SRC he was, from 1984 until 1996, Co-Principal Investigator with Warren Winkelstein of the NIAID-funded San Francisco Men’s Health Study of the natural history and epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in homosexual and bisexual men.
In 1999, Prof. Wiley assumed the position of Vice President for Research and Evaluation at the non-profit Public Health Institute (PHI) of Berkeley. PHI specializes in research, training and action programs in public health.