Howard Brunt

Executive Committee Member (Ex Officio)

With CAPI from September, 2007 - Present

Accreditations: BA (Florida), MScN (Yale), PhD (Calgary)

Howard Brunt holds a PhD in community health science and epidemiology from the University of Calgary (1990), a master’s in cardiovascular nursing from Yale University (1983) and a BA in sociology from the University of Florida (1974).

He first joined UVic in 1990 as a professor in the nursing program. He’s especially attracted to UVic’s strong emphasis on the integration of teaching, learning and research.

Howard Brunt served as UVic’s Associate Vice-President Research from 1999 to 2004, and has returned to lead the University’s research enterprise for the next five years, effective September 1, 2007.

His areas of research specialization are cardiovascular epidemiology and human research ethics, with a strong emphasis on community-based research. He has received awards for his cardiovascular research and has served on many national and provincial research review panels and policy boards. In 2002 he was appointed by the presidents of the three federal granting councils to chair an inter-agency panel on research ethics.

Howard Brunt is UVic's second Vice-President Research since the position was created in 1997. He succeeds Dr. Martin Taylor, who on September 1 started a three-year term as founding president and CEO of a new corporate entity created by UVic to manage its investment in the VENUS and NEPTUNE Canada ocean observatories.

Email: vpr@uvic.ca

Phone: 250-721-7973