Grant: Applied Public Health Chair - LOI

The overarching objective for the men's health program of research is to improve the health of men and their families through designing, implementing and evaluating a suite of men's health promotion programs. As a PHAC-CIHR research chair I will be able to build momentum and sustainable growth in Canadian men's health research. Within the men's health research program three foci (men's depression and suicide; men's tobacco reduction and smoking cessation; and prostate cancer) there are numerous intervention points (issues, populations and settings) which in turn inform how the outcomes of the proposed chair activities will be evaluated. For example, monitoring population health indicators regarding men's life expectancy, suicide rates and smoking prevalence as well as reporting intervention specific outcomes to distill men's behavior change, life quality and mental health will be collected to evaluate impact. At the practice and policy levels, by collaborating with practice and policy partners my research will influence as well as be informed by clinical and community health care services and policymakers.