Jeannie Shoveller, PhD

Education

• PhD (University of British Columbia)
• MA (Dalhousie University)
• BSc Honours (Dalhousie University)

Current Roles

Dr. Shoveller is appointed as a Professor at Dalhousie’s Department of Community Health & Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and serves as Vice-President Research at Nova Scotia Health. At Dal CHE and Faculty of Medicine, serves on the Faculty’s Appointments, Promotion & Tenure Committee, participates in research grants, co-supervises graduate students, and serves on Dalhousie’s Health Sciences Ethics Board. She is a judge for Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Graduate Students Major Scholarship Competitions. Dr. Shoveller also is co-leading with Dr. Gaynor Watson-Creed, Professor & Associate Dean, Serving and Engaging Society, the development of a Public Health & Preventive Medicine Division at Dal’s Faculty of Medicine. Following a distinguished 20+ year academic career at UBC’s Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Shoveller relocated to the East Coast in 2020 and served as the Vice President Research at the IWK Health Centre.

Boards & Advisory Panels

She is a Director of the Health Data Research Network Canada, a non-profit organization registered under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act. She also is the Chairperson of France’s Institut National Du Cancer (INCa) Advisory Panels on Research Networks Dedicated to Primary Cancer Prevention as well as the INCa Cancer Prevention & Intervention Research Chairs Program. Dr. Shoveller previously was the Chairperson of the Governing Council for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Leadership & Multi-Disciplinary Collaborations

She is well known for her leadership as well as multi-disciplinary collaborations and research across universities, health care systems, as well as with provincial and federal government ministries. Prior to returning to her East Coast roots, Dr. Shoveller previously served in numerous leadership roles in British Columbia, including as the Director of Research at the BC Centre on Substance Use, an organization with a provincial mandate to develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based approaches to substance use and addiction. Dr. Shoveller also served as the Associate Director and Director of Research at the Centre on Gender & Sexual Health Equity, a centre dedicated to advancing gender & sexual health equity in BC, Canada and globally.

Dr. Shoveller also was the Director, Epidemiology and Population Health and the Director of the BC HIV Drug Treatment Program at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. As Director of two core programs at one of the world’s leading HIV centres, she worked closely with senior health decision makers and leading scientists in BC (e.g., BC Centre for Disease Control; BC Health Authorities), Canada (e.g., PHAC), and internationally (e.g., UNAIDS). She also was responsible for overseeing the monitoring clinical and virological outcomes of more than 5,000 active patients on HIV antiretroviral therapy in BC. Prior to that, she was the Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), co-funded by 3 provincial ministries in BC (Health; Education; Children & Families) with focus on neurogenomics, developmental trajectories of child development; and program monitoring to address child vulnerability.

Health Systems Change

In addition to her roles within Canada, Dr. Shoveller has worked on a range of health-related portfolios alongside senior government leaders at federal, state and municipal government ministries in Canada and abroad (e.g., Brazil; France), including health, women and gender equality, social infrastructure, and intergovernmental affairs. She has received numerous scholarly awards throughout her academic career, including being inducted into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2015 as an “outstanding public health scholar whose leadership and vision has contributed to system change nationally and internationally”.