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

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

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

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