Lindsay McLaren

Lindsay McLaren, BA(hons), MA, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Community Health Sciences and the O’Brien Institute for Public Health at the University of Calgary. Dr. McLaren previously held an Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions Population Health Investigator Award (2007-2014)and is currently President of the Alberta Public Health Association (2014-2016).She has focused her career on quantitative research, specifically in the area of structural forces that influence health equity. Dr. McLaren brings this multi-disciplinary expertise into her CIHR/PHAC Applied Public Health Chair aimed at evaluating fluoridation cessation in Canada.