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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Professor & Canada Research Chair, University of Alberta

Carole Estabrooks holds a Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation and is recognized internationally as a leader in knowledge translation science. A past member and vice-chair of the CIHR Institute of Aging Advisory Board, she directs the Knowledge Utilization Studies Program at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on developing practical solutions for improving the quality of care provided to LTC residents, for enriching the work life of their caregivers, and for enhancing system efficiencies and effectiveness. She does this by advancing knowledge translation and improvement ...

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 ...

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 ...

Professor and Dean, University of Toronto

Linda Johnston, Professor and Dean at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, has held critical leadership roles in advancing nursing education and building research capacity in neonatal and paediatric nursing. She has led the development of specialist education and training programs to advance the nursing workforce in Australasia, the Americas, Europe and Africa. She has published widely in relation to the physical, social and emotional outcomes for babies and families in the neonatal period and the impact of global health initiatives on improving neonatal care. ...

Professor, Faculty of Nursing & Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Nicole Letourneau is Professor and Chair in Parent-Infant Mental Health in the Facultiesof Nursing and Medicine (Pediatrics) at the University of Calgary and past CanadaResearch Chairin Healthy Child Development. Receiving over $30 million in funding, her research is community-based and seeks to (1) understand the influenceof caregiver stress on infant/child development and (2) develop and test mitigating interventions. She has received many awards including inductioninto Canada's Top 40 Under 40 (2007). She authored Scientific Parenting: What Science Reveals About ParentalInfluence (2013), ...

Kathleen Russell Distinguished Professor, University of Toronto

Linda McGillis Hall, RN, PhD, FCAHS, FCNEI, FAAN, FCAN is a Professor in the Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto and was the Kathleen Russell Distinguished Professor from 2013 to 2019. She served as the Associate Dean Research at the Faculty (2007-2013 and 2014-2018), Acting Dean (July-Dec 2011), and Interim Dean (July 2013-August 2014). Her work has been acknowledged through national and international fellowships including as the first Canadian nurse inducted as an American Academy of Nursing ‘International’ Fellow (2007), a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2010), was ...

Senior Scientist, KITE- Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-UHN

Katherine McGilton is a Senior Scientist at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and is recognized internationally as a leader in the field of aging. Her research focuses on developing solutions for improving care and access to rehabilitation for older adults with cognitive impairment and increasing the effectiveness of nurse supervisors in nursing homes. She does this by working in an integrated model with practitioners, administrators and policy decision makers. She is the founder of the International Consortium of the Professional Practice of Nurses in Long-Term Care, where leaders collaborate ...