Associate Vice President of Global Health, McMaster University

Andrea Baumann is the Associate Vice President of Global Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Director of the Nursing Health Services Research Unit and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre in Primary Care and Health Human Resources. She has received numerous awards, including the Order of Canada in July 2018, and support from major granting agencies (e.g., CIHR, SSHRC and CHSRF). Her research has significantly contributed to health services and health human resources by influencing policy formation at the provincial, national andinternational level. Her work emphasizes innovation. Foci ...

Distnguished Professor Emerita, Western University

Helene Berman, RN, PhD, is a Distinguished University Professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University. Her program of research, funded by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and Status of Women Canada, has focused on the subtle and explicit forms of violence in the lives of girls and young women. In recent years, she has extended that work to include boys and young men and led a CIHR Team Grant, Promoting Health through Collaborative Engagement ...

Professor, University of Victoria

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 ...

Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia

Annette Browne is a Professor and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia, School of Nursing. A renowned Canadian leader and advocate for quality care for Indigenous and non Indigenous peoples, her research is transforming care for people most impacted by health inequities, including racism, discrimination and stigma. Partnerships with Indigenous leaders and healthcare agencies are foundational to her research program, resulting in the development of ground-breaking strategies that are directly impacting initiatives and policies to improve healthcare and health ...

Dr. Alex Clark is Professor and Associate Dean, Research in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta. In this role, he also provides leadership for the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology. His research relates to prevention and management of cardiovascular disease, drawing on complex theory and other innovative methods to understand outcomes in populations with coronary heart disease. His work has directly contributed to healthcare practice, policy and guidelines nationally an internationally. He is currently Vice-President of the International Network for Doctoral ...

Interim College Dean & Vice Provost, HS, University of Alberta

Greta G. Cummings is Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta; New Investigator, CIHR; Population Health Investigator, AHFMR, and an international leader in healthcare leadership science. She is principal investigator of the CLEAR Outcomes (Connecting Leadership, Education, & Research) Research Program. Her contributions to knowledge development about leadership practices and their impact on outcomes for nurses and patients have been acknowledged by the Canadian Nurses Association, from which she received the 2010 Order of Merit for Research. She has also received awards of ...

School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa

Vice Dean-Research at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Founder of an innovative Nursing Best Practice Research Centre. Her awards include: the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Practice/Academe Innovative Collaborative award; Health Services Research Career Scientist; Ontario Premier's Research Excellence; and Distinguished Alumni University of Toronto. Her internationally recognized leadership and research has brought research results into health services to improve health care delivery and patient outcomes. Notably, she has built widely-used sustainability and spread ...

Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, McMaster University

Alba DiCenso is a Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing and the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (formerly Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics) at McMaster University where she taught and conducted research for 35 years. Her BScN and MSc degrees are from McMaster and her PhD is in Health Studies from the University of Waterloo. She is internationally known for her pioneering work in evidence-based nursing and in advanced practice nursing including the roles and effectiveness of nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists in Canada. She influenced ...