What does a military family look like? How has this structure changed? What are current gaps in family research? In this episode of Beyond the Battlefield, host Dr. Nicholas Held meets with Dr. Heidi Cramm and Prof. Nicola Fear to discuss the purpose behind Beyond the Battlefield, explain how lifestyle dimensions are being used to better help military families, and provide insight on the future of family health research.

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Dr. Heidi Cramm, PhD, OTReg (Ont.), is a professor in the School of Rehabilitation Therapy at Queen’s University and research lead for the Families Matter Research Group. Cramm’s research is dedicated to the mental health and well-being of defence and public safety families, working in close collaboration with the Garnet Families Network, a research ecosystem for defence and public safety families. She is also the Families Advisor for the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research.

Prof. Nicola T. Fear, BSc (Hons), MSc, DPhil (OXON), joined the Academic Department of Military Mental Health (ADMMH) at King's College London in 2004. She also worked as an epidemiologist for the Leukaemia Research Fund (University of Leeds) and the UK Ministry of Defence. Since 2011, Fear has been Director of the King’s Centre of Military Health Research (KCMHR) alongside Professor Sir Simon Wessely. In 2014, King’s College London awarded Fear a Chair in Epidemiology. She is one of the Principal Investigators on the KCMHR military cohort study and leads several studies looking at the impact of military service on families. Fear obtained a BSc(Hons) in Pharmacology from King’s College London before training as an epidemiologist the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London) and the University of Oxford.

Check out Dr. Cramm and Prof. Fear’s guest editorial in JMVFH special edition 10.2, “The strength beside the uniform: Families of military members, Veterans, and public safety personnel”: https://jmvfh.utpjournals.press/toc/jmvfh/10/2

Music Attribution: “Sonora” from Marianas by Quincas Moreira. Music Licensed under a Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Beyond the Battlefield is produced by the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research.