Gloria DeSantis, PhD

Phone: (306) 337-3252

Fax: (306) 585-5694

Email: gloria.desantis @ uregina.ca

Dr. Gloria DeSantis is a new post doctoral fellow in the area of socio-health. Over the next two years she will continue to advance interdisciplinary research on voluntary sector social service agencies that work with vulnerable populations toward the creation of healthier communities through their service delivery and public policy advocacy roles.

Gloria came to this research as a result of her twenty years of voluntary sector work in communities facilitating participatory research, program planning and policy development. Over the course of time, she worked with numerous populations: homeless youth and adults, immigrants and refugees, people living in poverty, and people with physical and mental disabilities.

Dr. DeSantis will be working under the direction of Dr. Tom McIntosh at the University of Regina SPHERU offices.   In recognition of the innovations of her work, SHRF recently awarded Dr. DeSantis the Top Researcher Award. 

Gloria is a sessional lecturer in the Department of Justice Studies at the University of Regina.

Research areas of interest include: 

·  Health inequities and social justice

·  Health impacts of the voluntary social service sector

·  Qualitative research

·  Community involvement in health/social policy development

·  Knowledge creation and translation from the ground up

·  Structural and political determinants of health