Faculty Members
Faculty members in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing are engaged in impactful research across a number of health-related areas. Click on a faculty member's name to view their full profile and learn more about their research.
Research Supervisors and Interests
Saleema Allana
- Intersectionality and cardiovascular care
- Cardiovascular and chronic disease management
- Telehealth and remote monitoring programs for vulnerable populations
- Cardiovascular health of immigrants and other vulnerable populations
- Sex-based differences in cardiovascular symptoms and clinical outcomes
- Gender-based differences in care-seeking, self-care behaviors, and disease management for cardiovascular diseases
- Aging and quality of life with cardiovascular disease
- Health behaviours and self-care decision making among heart failure patients
- Adoption of technology, and its effectiveness in delivering nursing education
- Health equity and social justice
- Social technologies and their impact on social inclusion, discrimination, and intolerance
Yolanda Babenko-Mould
- Canadian and international involvement in nursing education
- Development of educational resources for use by clinical teachers in Canada and Rwanda
- Internationally-educated nursing students
- Clinical teacher and nursing student empowerment
- Clinical teachers’ use of empowering behaviours
- Nursing students’ self-efficacy for professional practice
- Nursing students’ self-efficacy for computer-mediated learning in online environments
- Civility in nursing education contexts
Deanna Befus (On Leave)
- Health equity and social justice
- Structural violence and women's health
- Chronic pain
- Stress and trauma
- Systems Thinking Methodologies
- Nonpharmacological self-management and integrative wellness
- Critical theoretical perspectives
- Global and public health
- Self-management decision-making
Richard Booth
- Nursing education, serious games, virtual reality
- Health informatics, eHealth, digital health, social media in healthcare
- Mental health nursing
- Socio-technical perspectives, Big Data
- Social robotics, automation, artificial intelligence
Susana Caxaj
- Temporary migrant populations
- Global health and community health
- Anti-racism and critical social justice
- Indigenous health, health equity and cultural safety
- Belonging, inclusion and service access among immigrant populations
- Participatory Action Research
Ryan Chan
- Digital Health and Nursing Informatics
- Emerging Technologies in Healthcare
- Nursing Education, Program, and Curriculum
- Clinical Simulation and Simulation-Based Learning
- Emergency and Acute Care Nursing
Cheryl Forchuk
- Mental health nursing
- Mental illness and poverty, housing and homelessness
- Transitional discharge model
- The use of technology in mental health
Anna Garnett
- Applied gerontology including caregivers and families
- Chronic disease management in older adults – optimizing health
- Health equity within gerontology and geriatrics
- Health informatics and digital applications within gerontological contexts
- Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding socio-environmental impacts on the health of older adult populations
Danielle Fearon
- Public health/population-level health
- Applied biostatistics
- Mental health
- Health systems research
- Health equity
Marilyn Ford-Gilboe
- Women’s health and health inequity across diverse contexts, including rural settings
- Health, social and economic consequences of gender-based violence and trauma
- Development and testing complex (F2F and online) interventions to improve health and quality of life for women with histories of IPV
- Strengthening health care approaches for people living with violence and inequity
- Trauma- and violence-informed care, relational practice and strengths-based models of practice/service delivery (particularly related to community health nursing)
- Measurement of gender-based violence and equity-oriented care
Kim Jackson
- Health Promotion & Caring for Self, Colleagues & Clients
- Episodic Mental Health Illnesses
- Professional Practice in Families
- Child Health and Family Nursing
Amanda McIntyre
- Health systems and health service delivery
- Rehabilitation sciences, interdisciplinary health care
- Emergency (hyperacute) and acute care nursing
- Chronic and neurological disease, older adults
- Quantitative methods
- Health informatics and digital health solutions
Shokoufeh Modanloo
- Women’s and Children’s health in Global Context
- Sociopolitical Determinants of Health for Marginalized Populations
- Historical and Structural Factors to Understand Systemic discrimination and racism
- Community-based Participatory Research
- Theory and Philosophy in Nursing
Abe Oudshoorn
- Homelessness prevention
- Health Equity
- Health promotion
- Housing Policy
- Qualitative methods
Anam Shahil-Feroz
- Digital Health
- Global Health
- Maternal Health
- South Asian Immigrant Women Health and Well-being
Victoria Smye
- Inequities in access to mental health and addictions care
- Indigenous health
- Women and violence and, in particular, interpersonal and structural violence
- Critical theoretical perspectives, including exploration and application of the concepts of cultural safety, relational practice, and intersectionality in nursing and health care more broadly
Penny Tryphonopoulos
- Perinatal mood disorders
- Infant mental health
- Attachment
- Intervention development & testing
- Gender-based violence
Glorieuse Uwizeye
- Intergenerational health impacts of human violence, in particular, developmental and health impacts of genocide
- Developmental and health outcomes of early life trauma exposure
- Epigenetics
- Health disparities
- Global health
- Nursing workforce
Nadine Wathen
- Gender-based Violence
- Health Equity & Social Justice
- Knowledge Mobilization
- Public Policy
- Health Information & Communication
Fiona Webster
- The sociology of chronic pain and other chronic health conditions
- Critical ethnography and institutional ethnography
- Gender and health
- Health equity and social determinants of health
