We acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).
Congratulations to this year’s winners of SPPH’s Cortlandt JG Mackenzie Prize for Excellence in Teaching: Dr. Susan Cox for teaching a core course, and Dr. Kimberly McGrail for teaching an elective course.
This prize is named for Dr. Cortlandt John Gordon (C.J.G.) Mackenzie, who was the Acting Chairman of the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology (from which the School was formed), from 1969 to 1973 and Head of the Department from 1973 to 1980. Dr. Mackenzie passed away in 2013. The prize is awarded for the highest scores on students’ evaluations of course teaching in the School of Population and Public Health.
Dr. Cox taught SPPH’s 521 (since renamed SPPH 621) – Approaches to Enquiry in Population and Public Health. Cox is an Associate Professor in the School, and a faculty member in the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics. As a sociologist and qualitative health researcher, Susan has extensive experience in applying the methods of the social sciences to applied ethics research and practice.
Student comments about her teaching include:
Dr. McGrail won the Mackenzie Prize for teaching the elective course SPPH 531 – Health Care Systems Analysis. She is an Associate Professor in the School, a faculty member with the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, Scientific Director for Population Data BC, and an associate with the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation. McGrail’s current research interests are in evaluation of health system policy interventions, aging and the use and cost of health care services, and governance of access to data for research purposes.
Student comments about her teaching include: