PhD Students

 



Salme Lavigne, Dip. Dent Hyg, RDH, BA, MS(DH), PhD student

Background:
Diploma in Dental Hygiene, University of Toronto Bachelor of Arts, Biomedical Anthropology, Lakehead University Master of Science in Dental Hygiene Education, University of Missouri-Kansas-City (UMKC) Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Dental Hygiene, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas Associate Professor & Director, School of Dental Hygiene, University of Manitoba Currently Professor, School of Dental Hygiene, University of Manitoba PhD student, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba since 2007

Research Interests:
Oral-Systemic connections; inflammation; periodontal disease; evidence-based decision-making; older adults Personal

Interests: Travelling; reading; writing; family; skiing Dissertation Research: “Effects of Power Toothbrushing on Caregiver Compliance and on Oral and Systemic Inflammation in a Nursing Home Population”. Starting data collection in September, 2012.

 

 

 



Laura H. Thompson, PhD

Laura H. Thompson is a PhD student in the Department of Community Health Sciences and a Research Associate at the Centre for Global Public Health at the University of MSc in Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, focusing on the social networks and health of street-involved youth.  For her PhD research, she is investigating the transmission dynamics and molecular phylogenetics of HIV in Pakistan. She is the recipient of a CIHR Doctoral Research Award and a Manitoba Health Research Council/University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship and is a trainee in the CIHR International Infectious Disease and Global Health Training Program.


 

Claudyne Chevrier,PhD

 

Claudyne Chevrier completed a Bachelor in Anthropology at Université de Montréal (2008) and a Masters in Community Health (2012) in the Social and Preventive Medicine Department of the same university. Her  specific  interests  lie  in  the  interactions  between  social  determinants  of  health and  social inequalities  and  the  accessibility  to  quality  health  care, particularly in relations to gender inequalities. She is also interested in the social and political context of international health. For her Masters thesis, she completed  4 months of field work in Mysore, India, in a sex workers organization focusing on the HIV/AIDS-related care and support services that they organize for their members. She hopes to pursue her interests further in the course of her PhD.
 
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