Dr. Jürgen Krause is a professor in the Faculty of Business at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI). He Chairs the Advisory Committee and Management Board for the Centre for Health and Community Research (CHCR), which he founded in 2009, and serves as PEI’s Principal Investigator for the Maritime SPOR Support Unit (MSSU). He earned his Master and PhD degrees from the University of Konstanz, Germany, and performed his postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago in USA.
Before moving into education, Dr. Krause served in several operational and strategic capacities in the Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical industry. During his time in industry, he held senior and executive positions in research and development, manufacturing and quality management, project management, pipeline and portfolio management as well as strategy development. He also successfully championed global company initiatives and a number of industry/university collaborations and led alliances with other industry partners. He spent eighteen years with Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals in both the European and United States offices and four years with Millennium Pharmaceuticals (now Takeda Pharmaceuticals) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as Vice President R&D Strategy & Operations.
Dr. Krause joined the Faculty of Business at UPEI in July 2008 and served as the Dean of the Faculty from 2013 until 2019. From 2010 until 2020 Dr. Krause also served as an adjudication committee member on the Idea to Innovation Grants Program of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
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Recent Publications
Fellows, G. K., Patterson, M., MacFarlane, A., Marriott, L., Carrothers, A., Krause, J. (2018). Economic loss analysis to Prince Edward Island resulting from a prolonged closure of the Confederation Bridge. Canadian Journal of Regional Science = Revue canadienne des sciences régionales, 41(1), 29-41. http://www.cjrs-rcsr.org/V41/cjrs_rcsr41-3bFellowsEtAl.pdf
Levy, A., Kephart, G., Dowling, L., Dyer, J., Burge, F., Atherton, F., MacKenzie, A., Leslie, A., Krause, J., McDonald, T. (2017). Patient engagement as a component of a learning healthcare system: A case study using small area rate variation research in Nova Scotia, Canada. International Journal for Population Data Science, 1(1). DOI doi:10.23889/ijpds.v1i1.305
St-Hilaire, S., Krause, J., Write, K., Poirier, L., & Singh, K. (2016). Break-even analysis for a green crab fishery in PEI, Canada. Management of Biological Invasions, 7(3), 297–303.
Krause, J., & Tobin, G. (2013). Discovery, development, and regulation of natural products. in M. Kulka (Ed.), Using Old Solutions to New Problems – Natural Drug Discovery in the 21st Century, (pp.3-25). InTech doi:10.5772/56424
Pallapothu, M. K., & Krause, J. (2013). Strategic Macro-Environmental Factor Analysis for Entry into the Fish Vaccines Market in India. International Journal of Business and Management, 8(3), 27–41.
Ballem K. H. D., & Krause J. (2011). Case study of interprovincial variations in patient access to Oncology drugs: does a common public formulary exist for oncology drugs in Canada? American International Journal of Contemporary Research, 1(3), 21-29.
Casper, S., Krause, J., & MacNevin, A. (2010). The Prince Edward Island bioscience bluster: Creating a knowledge-based economy. in M. J. Ahn (Ed.), Building the case for biotechnology: Management case studies in science, laws, regulations, politics, and business. Washington, DC: Logos Press.
Reports
MacSwain, M., Kydd, R., Munro, M., Krause, J. (2020). Evaluation Progress Report for: Mobile Integrated Health in Prince Edward Island Home and Community Care Seniors Check-in Program. PEI Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit & Centre for Health and Community Research.
MacSwain, M., Kydd, R., Munro, M., Krause, J. (2020). Interim Evaluation Plan for: Mobile Integrated Health in Prince Edward Island Home and Community Care Seniors Check-in Program. PEI Maritime SPOR SUPPPORT Unit & Centre for Health and Community Research.
Kydd, R., MacSwain, M., Krause, J. (2019, June 26). Interim Evaluation Progress Report for: Mobile Integrated Health Initiative in Prince Edward Island Seniors Check-in Program. Centre for Health and Community Research, University of Prince Edward Island & the Department of Health and Wellness, Province of Prince Edward Island.
MacSwain, M., Patterson, M., Kephart, G. & Krause, J. (2016). Examining the drivers of high cost healthcare usage in Prince Edward Island. Charlottetown, PE: Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit.
Presentations
Krause, J., MacSwain, M. (2019, May). Examining Drivers of High Resource Healthcare Usage in PEI. [Presentation]. Provincial Patient Flow Advisory Committee.
MacSwain, M., Arsenault, H., Kydd, R., & Krause, J. (2018, November 13-15). Understanding the experiences of high-resource healthcare patients in PEI: an emergent mixed methods study. [Presentation]. SPOR Summit, Ottawa, ON; (2018, October 27-29). 24th Qualitative Health Research Conference, Halifax, NS.
MacSwain, M., Arsenault, H., Kydd, R., & Krause, J. (2018, May 29-31). Examining the drivers of high cost healthcare use in PEI. Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research Conference, Montreal, QC.
MacSwain, M., Patterson, M., Kephart, G. & Krause, J. (2017, May 24-26). Examining the drivers of high cost healthcare usage in Prince Edward Island. Canadian Association for Health Services Policy Research Conference, Toronto, ON.
Mary-Ann Standing is the Director of the Centre and the Secure Island Data Repository. She is currently completing her Master of Science in Health Management – Epidemiology (University of Prince Edward Island) and previously earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with Honours (University of Prince Edward Island).
Before joining the Centre in 2016 as a Data Analyst, Mary-Ann worked in the PEI Chief Public Health Office (Department of Health and Wellness) as a Chronic Disease Epidemiologist and worked as a Health Information Specialist in the Health Information Unit of Health PEI.
She brings more than fifteen years of experience working in research and evaluation in diverse areas including agriculture, mental health and addictions, corrections, public health, and applied health research. She specializes in research utilizing administrative data.
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Robyn Kydd holds a Master of Science in Community Health and Epidemiology (College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan), a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan), and a Bachelor of Science in Biology (University of Victoria).
Robyn has conducted research and taught in the field of public health epidemiology for over fifteen years. She has experience conducting and contributing to research studies and evaluation projects on a wide variety of topics including applied health research, social epidemiology, alcohol epidemiology, reproductive and sexual health, and zoonotic diseases.
Before joining the team in 2017, Robyn worked as an Epidemiology Research and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine (University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ) for seven years. During this time, she collaborated on research projects with the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development (Cohort) Study, co-authored a report describing the alcohol-attributable burden of disease and injury in New Zealand, and taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate epidemiology classes.
She brings to the team considerable knowledge in epidemiology, public health, program evaluation, survey development, systematic and scoping reviews, comparative risk assessment methodology, data analysis and biostatistics.
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Kaleigh joined CHCR as the Administrative Assistant in April of 2022, after completing a one-year internship with ClimateSense and UPEI’s Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation. During her time with the Climate Centre, she aided in the creation of the Canadian Association of Professionals in Climate Change, which serves as the first professional association for multi-disciplinary climate workers in the country.
In 2019, Kaleigh obtained a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and in 2021, a master’s degree in Global Affairs, both from UPEI. During her studies, she placed an emphasis on climate change and adaptation and hopes to explore further the negative implications of climate change when considering various social determinants of health.
Kate Kelly holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (University of New Brunswick), a Master of Arts in Cognitive Psychology (University of Toronto, funded by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship), and Bachelor of Arts (Honours Psychology) from the University of PEI. Her doctoral work investigated the use of social media-based patient navigation to support caregivers of children with complex care needs.
Prior to joining the team in 2024, Kate was a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Applied Human Sciences at UPEI, where she led two projects on vaccine confidence (funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada) and the development of a province-wide community navigation program for families with young children. Her research interests include patient navigation, patient-oriented research, knowledge syntheses, and knowledge translation.
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Saurav Neupane is the Database Administrator of the Secure Island Data Repository (SIDR) at the Centre for Health and Community Research, UPEI. He is currently completing a Master of Science in Mathematical Computational Sciences at the University of Prince Edward Island. He previously earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with Co-op and a minor in Statistics (UPEI).
Saurav has a strong data management and analysis background, having worked as a Student Data Analyst in the PEI Chief Public Health Office (Department of Health and Wellness) and as a lab instructor for the Intro to Statistics course at UPEI before joining the team.
