Jacqueline (Jacquie) Gahagan, PhD (Medical Sociology) is a Full Professor of Health Promotion in the Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University. Jacquie holds research associate positions with the Jean Monnet European Union Centre of Excellence, the Health Law Institute, and the Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute. Jacquie currently serves as the Interim Scientific Director of the Healthy Populations Institute and is an Affiliate Scientist with the Nova Scotia Health Authority. Jacquie’s program of health promotion research focuses on policy and programming interventions using sex and gender-based analyses (SGBA+) to address health inequities faced among marginalized populations at high risk for poor health outcomes such as those living with or affected by HIV, HCV or other STBBIs, older LGBTQ+ populations and those involved in sex work. Prior to joining Dalhousie University, Jacquie worked in public health at the municipal, provincial and national levels in relation to harm reduction, HIV/HCV prevention, and tobacco use cessation.
Jacquie has been involved in issues of health equity, advocacy and activism for over three decades with a variety of rights-based and social justice-oriented community-based organizations and received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 for her efforts. Jacquie and has been involved in a wide array of administrative service to Dalhousie University, including as a member of the DFA Equity Committee, the University Employment Equity Committee, the University Senate, the Faculty of Graduate Studies Faculty Council, Academic Integrity, the Health Sciences Research Ethics Board, as a Founding Fellow of the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance, and is the founder of the Queer Faculty Caucus.