Nazeem Muhajarine is a professor, Community Health and Epidemiology, at the University
of Saskatchewan, and Director, Saskatchewan Population Health
and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU). He received his A.B. in Psychobiology (Neuroscience)
from Oberlin College, his M.Sc. in Epidemiology from the School of Public and
Population Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, and his Ph.D. (Interdisciplinary:
Social epidemiology) from the University of Saskatchewan. He held a postdoctoral
fellowship in Population Health at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
(CiFAR) from 1994 to 1996. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including U
of Massachusetts’ 2014 Alumni Award for Significant Contributions to his field,
the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation’s Achievement Award (2009), and the
Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) Knowledge Translation Award
(2006). His main research areas include Social epidemiology; Population health
intervention; Maternal and child health; Health and place; and Community-university
research collaborations. In 2023, he was inducted as Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
