Dr. Cathy Slavik
Dr. Slavik is an Assistant Professor and the Legacy for Airway Health Chair in Health Communication at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. She is also a Researcher at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
Before that, she was a Behavioural Science Research Fellow at Impact Canada and Health Canada’s Tobacco Control Directorate. Previously, she held the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oregon’s Center for Science Communication Research. Dr. Slavik is interested in how social and environmental factors shape our health and in improving communication tools so that health information is better understood and used in practice. Her current work focuses on enhancing public awareness and informed decision-making around major lung disease risk factors, including wildfire smoke, radon, and tobacco. She received her PhD from the School of Earth, Environment & Society at McMaster University and her Master’s of Public Health from the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
