Address:	Dana Wilson Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy   University of New Brunswick Suite 300, Keirstead Hall Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 5A3
Tel:	(506) 452-6153
Fax:	(506) 447-3427
E-Mail:	dana.wilson@unb.ca

Dana is a health geographer by training and her research broadly focuses on how places and people interact and produce varying health outcomes among populations. Dana's doctoral studies were conducted at McGill University in the Faculty of Geography; previously, she earned a Master's (M.A.) degree in Geography at McMaster University, and a bachelor degree (B.E.S. honors) in Environment and Resources Studies and Geography at the University of Waterloo.

Dana is skilled at combining quantitative and qualitative approaches and integrating a number of primary and secondary data sources (i.e. census, individual survey, in-depth descriptive data). Her doctoral dissertation research used a population health approach to explore how neighbourhood environments and individual characteristics influence opportunities for youth to engage in video lottery terminal (VLT) gambling. The research involved spatial and statistical analyses of a survey of nearly 3000 Montreal students, focus group interviews with youth, and individual interviews with school guidance counsellors.

Dana's current research interests include the social inequalities in the health and well-being of youth and young adults, the role of social environments in influencing behaviour, health-related behaviours like gambling, smoking, physical activity and healthy eating, and pathways to resiliency and positive health and development among youth. At CRISP Dana continues to focus on youth gambling as a public health issue and is currently examining the Canadian Community Health Survey dataset to explore the influence of individual and local factors on youth gambling in Canada and the Atlantic Provinces specifically. Dana is involved in other projects at CRISP including the Atlantic Networks for Prevention Research (ANPR) team.