Cheryl Currie

About

I am an Associate Professor of Public Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Lethbridge. I completed a PhD in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta in 2012. As a social epidemiologist, my research examines the ways in which our social experiences, both positive and negative, get under the skin to shape health, health-risk behaviour, and stress biology. 

I direct the Social Epidemiology in Action Lab in the Faculty of Health Sciences, and actively engage undergraduate and graduate trainees in my projects. My team and I conduct studies using a variety of methodologies including randomized controlled trials, observational designs, systematic review methods, qualitative inquiries, and big data analyses. My research is framed by a participatory action research approach. I actively partner with community collaborators and organizations, not only to inform my research questions, but to engage in studies with us as empowered co-researchers.

I led the development of the Graduate Public Health Program at the University of Lethbridge. I teach courses in epidemiology, advanced epidemiology, and advanced biostatistics (HLSC/BIOL 2003 Epidemiology, PUBH 4003/5003 Advanced Epidemiology, PUBH 5500 Biostatistics II).