Bio
Dr. Cecilia Bukutu is Professor of Public Health at Concordia University of Edmonton (CUE). She is also an Adjunct Professor at UAlberta. Cecilia obtained her MPhil and PhD in Epidemiology from University of Cambridge, UK and completed her post-doctoral fellowship at City University (UK) and at the University of Alberta (UAlberta). She has held senior leadership and management roles including Director Public Health, De of Science, Director Institutional Research and Program Development at CUE, Managing Director in the Nursing Faculty at UAlberta, and Associate Director/Senior Partnership Manager at the Child & Youth Data Lab. Dr. Bukutu has led many successful funded (NSERC, CIHR, SSHRIC, PHAC) public health and knowledge translation research collaborations that include the Speak Science Simply Program, VacciNation Project, and the multi-institutional Building Healthy Communities Mentorship and Resilience Program (MRP). Dr. Bukutu has received several awards including the UAlberta Presidents Dare to Discover: Connecting Communities Team Award and CUE’s Gerald S. Krispin Research Award.
Research Interests
Health and wellbeing of youth
Complementary Medicine
Environmental Health
Publications
1. Fowler T, Bukutu C, Coker Farrell, E. Anti-Black racism is not a 'consensual schoolyard fight'. The Conversation. May 12, 2021.
2. Pujadas Botey, A, Gibbard W.B, MacLellan K, Bukutu C, Bayrampour H, Vinturache A, Slater A, Breitkreuz R, Sakaluk-Moody L, Lynch S.,Tough S. 2014. What adults know about child development in Alberta, Canada: Implications for health services? Archives of Disease in Childhood 99:A203. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-307384.549
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