Julia Kontak
Postdoctoral Research Fellow @University Of Alberta School Of Public Health
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WORK HISTORY
Postdoctoral Research Fellow @University Of Alberta School Of Public Health
EDUCATION
Mount Allison University
Bachelor’s Degree, Psychology (Honours)
Dalhousie University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Health
Dalhousie University
Master’s Degree, Health Promotion
ABOUT JULIA KONTAK
Julia is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Public Health, University of Alberta. She also holds the position as a Sessional Instructor, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University. Julia recently completed her PhD in Health at Dalhousie University (2021–2025), where she focused on the use of participatory and qualitative methods to understand the process of student engagement in the Health Promoting Schools (HPS) model. During her doctoral studies, she also served as a Research Associate with UpLift, a school-university-community partnership working to advance HPS across Nova Scotia, Canada. Her postdoctoral work builds directly on this foundation, with a focus on catalyzing youth engagement in HPS. Prior to her PhD, Julia completed her MA in Health Promotion at Dalhousie University and worked at two leading health research organizations in Nova Scotia including being the Knowledge Translation Coordinator at the Maritime SPOR Support Unit for four years.
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