Susan Bartels

Dr. Susan Bartels is a Clinician-Scientist and Canada Research Chair in Humanitarian Health Equity at Queen’s University. In addition to practicing emergency medicine, she conducts global public health research focused on how women and children are impacted by humanitarian crises. While much of her work has been in Sub-Saharan Africa, she has also worked in the Middle East as well as in Asia and Latin America. She is currently the lead investigator on research projects funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and Elrha. Much of her current research is focused on investigating peacekeeper-perpetrated sexual exploitation and abuse in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Dr. Bartels is interested in using innovative methods to improve understanding of the social determinants of health in complex environments such as armed conflict and natural disasters. After completing fellowship training in international emergency medicine and a Masters of Public Health degree at Harvard University, Dr. Bartels was faculty at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative where she conducted research for the Women in War program. Dr. Bartels returned to Queen’s University in 2014 and lives in Kingston with her husband and two children.