Professor, University of British Columbia

Renowned Canadian leader and advocate on women's health promotion with an emphasis on violence against women, and the promotion of ethical, socially just health care. She has made substantial inroads in our understanding of the health consequences of violence, including health care policy and practice in response to violence. She has informed the measurement of discrimination and the advancement of the concept of cultural safety in health care in Canada. Author of over 100 publications in peer reviewed journals and books, she presents provincially, nationally and internationally to diverse ...

VP Research, Innovation & Discovery & Chief Nurse Executive, Nova Scotia Health

Dr. Tomblin Murphy is an experienced health leader and an internationally recognized expert in population needs-based approaches to health systems and workforce planning, evaluation and research. She is the Vice President of Research, Innovation and Discovery, and Chief Nurse Executive at Nova Scotia Health. She currently serves on the National COVID-19 Immunity Task Force Leadership Group, as well as directs the WHO/PAHO Collaborating Centre on Health Workforce Planning and Research at Dalhousie University. An active researcher and champion of research and innovation in healthcare, she leads ...

Full Professor, University of Ottawa

Dawn Stacey is an internationally renowned researcher enabling impact on practice and policy through advancing the science of supporting patients' involvement in making healthcare decisions. She leads national and international initiatives to synthesize evidence and develop standards for translating scientific knowledge into patient decision-aids, and has created innovative implementation resources including decision coaching protocols and online training programs. Her evidence-based knowledge tools and learning activities are publicly available, used in clinical practice and for continuing ...

Professor, CRC, Acting Vice Dean, University of Alberta

Dr. Shannon Scott is an internationally recognized nurse, scientist, educator and knowledge translation leader. As the Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation for Children's Health, Dr. Scott has improved health outcomes for children through her interdisciplinary research that merges research and the arts to develop national award winning mHealth tools for Canadian families. She is a founding co-Director of Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK) a national initiative that is game changing for children's emergency care. She has successfully trained multiple scientists and ...

Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

Dr. Sioban Nelson is a nurse historian and an internationally known ‘thought leader’ in Nursing. Professor and Dean of Nursing at the University of Toronto since 2005, she was recruited from the University of Melbourne where she was Head of the School of Nursing and Professor of Nursing Policy and Professional Issues. Known for her groundbreaking scholarship that demonstrated how nursing emerged as a prototype of a new 19th century phenomenon, a female profession, she has author many books, book chapters and articles, and edited the international journal, Nursing Inquiry since 1998. She ...

Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University

Dr. Sepali Guruge is an international expert on the complex intersections between health, immigration, partner violence, and aging. Her work with immigrant women and older immigrant adults, and commitment to health equity and improving the resiliency of marginalized populations, has garnered local, national, and international attention. The evidence-based interventions she has developed in collaboration with health, social, and settlement sectors, government stakeholders, and affected individuals have improved the health of immigrants, their families, and broader communities. Government ...

Distinguished Uni Prof. & Women’s Health Research Chair, Western University

Marilyn Ford-Gilboe is a Professor and Women's Health Research Chair in Rural Health, in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Western University. Canadian leader in the areas of women's health, violence, health equity and place, her research has contributed foundational knowledge about the health consequences of violence and effective health interventions for women experiencing intimate partner violence, including rural-dwelling women and people those who face significant barriers to care. This work is strengthening health care and social service responses to violence, trauma and ...

Full Professor & OHTN Chair, University of Ottawa

Dr Etowa’s career is rooted in a strong conviction that social justice and equitable healthcare are the cornerstones of a healthy society. Her distinctive competencies in community-based participatory research and intersectionality lens have informed her research program, grounded in over 25 years of clinical practice. Her antiracist healthcare practice book is described as ‘the first of its kind in the Canadian literature’ (2009). She co-edited the indigenized edition of Community Health Nursing… (2020). To advance health sciences, she spearheaded institutional policy and program changes at ...

Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia Okanagan

Joan Bottorff is one of Canada’s leading scientists in the field of health behavior. She is currently Professor and Director of the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention at the University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus, and has been the recipient of a UBC Distinguished University Scholar Award and a CIHR Investigator Award. She has developed active research programs in tobacco control, cancer screening and health promotion. In the field of gender and health, Dr. Bottorff is also collaborating on projects to examine gender-related influences on women and men's ...