Penny Hawe

Biography: Penny Hawe was recruited from Australia to the University of Calgary in 2000 to take up the foundation Markin Chair in Health and Society and the position of Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences. She became a Health Scientist of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research in 2007, having previously been an AHFMR Senior Scholar. Her undergraduate degree is in community psychology from the University of New South Wales. She has an MPH from the University of Sydney and a PhD from the University of Melbourne. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health in 2009.

In 2004 Penny received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health research to establish the Population Health Intervention Research Centre. She was the Director of PHIRC from 2004-2010. She was the Markin Chair in Health and Society from 2000-2010. From 2006-2010 she was the Co-Chair of the Population Health Intervention Research Initiative for Canada, representing the Institute Advisory Board of CIHR's Institute of Population and Public Health.

Penny is Associate Editor (Intervention Research) at the Canadian Journal of Public Health. Since July 2011 she has been a Visiting International Scholar at PHIRC, supported by Alberta Innovates-Health Solutions.

Research Interests: Complex community-level interventions to promote health; social network analysis; theory of population health interventions; whole school approaches to mental health promotion; methods and ethics in population health

Email: phawe@ucalgary.ca

Phone: 403 210-9316

Publications: See PubMed