SegallAlexander Segall is a professor emeritus and a senior scholar of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and a research affiliate at the Centre of Aging at the University of Manitoba. In his 40-year career as a health sociologist, his research has focused o the social determinants of health, population health assessment, self-health management, and healthy aging. He was the principal investigator on a longitudinal population health promotion research program at the University of Manitoba titled the Wellness Institute Service Evaluation Research (WISER) Program, whose objective was to better understand the social determinants of population health and the factors that keep Canadians healthy across the life course. Segall has published extensively; his articles have appeared in a wide range of journals, including Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Aging and Health, and the Canadian Journal on Aging. He has also authored several book chapters and co-authored Health and Health Care in Canada with Neena Chappell in 2000. Christopher J. Fries is an assistant professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Manitoba. His research interests centre on health and lifestyles behaviour, critical public health, social determinants of health, and medical pluralism. A mixed-methods research design specialist, Fries's work, using both qualitative and quantitative data-collection methods, has appeared in Health Sociology Review, Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, Journal of Mixed-Methods Research, and Canadian Ethnic Studies. Fries has also authored several book chapters, written on sociological matters for public consumption (for the Huffington Post and Winnipeg Free Press), and was recently given a Faculty Access Award for providing outstanding service in accommodations on campus for students with disabilities. Read More Read Less