Dr. Nancy Ross, Associate Professor, McGill University Department of Geography, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Associate of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University; and Scientific Editor for Health Reports. Nancy’s principal research focus is on health disparities in urban environments.Dr. Nancy Ross, Associate Professor, McGill University Department of Geography, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Associate of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University; and Scientific Editor for Health Reports. Nancy’s principal research focus is on health disparities in urban environments.
Born in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Nancy Ross received her undergraduate and masters degrees from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and received her Ph.D. from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in 1997. Between 1997 and 2001 Nancy spent time on maternity leaves as a postdoctoral fellow of the Canadian Institutes of Advanced Research’s Population Health Program and became a senior social scientist with Statistics Canada. She joined McGill University in 2001.
Nancy has published research that examines the relationships between urban income inequality, urban income segregation and health in Canadian, U.S. and international contexts. More recently she has initiated studies that examine the net influence of local urban environments on health outcomes and health behaviours (smoking, gambling uptake, obesity) and is working on understanding how local urban contexts shape the magnitude of health disparities in Canadian cities. She has authored and co-authored more than 50 scientific articles that have appeared on the pages of the British Medical Journal, the American Journal of Public Health, Social Science and Medicine, the Journal of Urban Health and the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Nancy teaches courses in Environment and Health and Health Geography at the undergraduate level and co-teaches Advanced Topics in Health Geography with Dr. Lea Berrang-Ford.
Updated: February 2009
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