Victoria Smye
Biography Victoria Smye, RN, PhD, FCAN is an associate professor and director of the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western University. The goal of her research is to promote health equity, focused on the areas of mental wellness and Indigenous health. Victoria’s completed research includes studies of the wellness narratives of Indigenous women […]
Sally Thorne
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Elsie Tan
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Vicky Bungay
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Geertje Boschma
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Patricia Rodney
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Judith Lynam
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Colleen Varcoe
Email: Website: UBC Nursing profile Biography Dr. Colleen Varcoe, RN, PhD, is a professor emeritus in the University of British Columbia School of Nursing. Her work aims to decrease inequity and violence including interpersonal and structural forms of violence such as racism and stigma related to poverty and substance use. Completed research includes studies of […]
Saima Hirani
Email: Website: UBC Nursing profile Saima Hirani is an Assistant Professor at the UBC, School of Nursing. Her research interests relate to mental health and mental health promotion, particularly for vulnerable and high-risk populations. Her research focuses on empowering people, emphasizing what factors and interventions can enhance the capacity of individuals, families, and communities to […]
Ranjit Dhari
Email: Website: UBC Nursing profile Ms. Dhari is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in UBC Nursing undergraduate program. A faculty member since 2013, Ms. Dhari has background in Public Health nursing, with over 34 years of experience as a frontline public health nurse, and worked through several pandemics. She has a strong interest in engaging […]
Kristen Haase
Email: Website: UBC Nursing profile Kristen Haase, RN PhD (she/her/hers) is an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing at UBC and an affiliated researcher in the Fraser Health Authority. Her research program centres on supporting older adults as they manage cancer, chronic disease, and wellbeing, in domains of symptom science, self-management, and technology-enabled interventions.
Lydia Wytenbroek
Email: Website: UBC Nursing profile Dr. Wytenbroek is a social historian of twentieth-century health care, with a particular interest in understanding and interpreting the historical forces that have shaped the nursing profession and practice. She draws on historical research, sociology, feminist studies and social justice to explore the history of health care and nursing through […]
Jillian Harding
Email: Website: UBC Nursing profile I’ve been in nursing for over 20 years, the first 10 years as an RN in acute care, and the latter years as an NP in primary care. I’ve been teaching in the NP program at UBC for almost 10 years. And I work in clinical practice as a nurse […]
Emmanuela Ojukwu
Email: Website: UBC Nursing profile Dr. Emmanuela Ojukwu is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, School of Nursing. Her research niche is based on racial and gender health disparities and inequities, and health promotion for marginalized population, particularly African, Caribbean and Black women and youths. She also conducts research on sexual health […]
Elisabeth Bailey
Email: Website: UBC Nursing profile Dr. Bailey is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at UBC School of Nursing. Her approach to educational leadership is rooted in the same belief that drives her teaching practice – transformational learning happens when students, teachers, and staff feel mutually invested in and supported by their community. In the United […]
Helen Brown
Email: Website: UBC Nursing profile Dr. Brown’s research brings critical perspectives to studies aimed at improving health and social equity for rural and remote Indigenous communities. Using community-based and participatory methods she has worked with First Nations communities across Western Canada on projects that align with community priorities around health, wellness, cultural continuity and language […]
Annette Browne
Email: Website: UBC Nursing profile Dr. Browne studies health and healthcare inequities, with a particular focus on health inequities affecting Indigenous peoples. She conducts research on strategies to enhance equity-oriented health care for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, including interventions to address systemic racism and discrimination, and support the uptake of cultural safety and trauma- and […]
Tara Horrill
Dr. Tara Horrill is a postdoctoral fellow with the University of British Columbia’s School of Nursing and the Nursing and Allied Health Research and Knowledge Translation unit at BC Cancer, with a cross appointment at BC Cancer. Her research takes a critical approach to investigating health inequities within the context of the cancer care system, […]
Amelie Garneau
Biography Dr Blanchet Garneau is a White settler of French ancestry living and working on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka nation. She is interested in critical theoretical perspectives regarding Indigenous Peoples’ health, and the relevance of anti-racist approaches and cultural safety in shifting clinical and organizational practices and policies toward fostering health equity. In […]