Abe Oudshoorn, PhD

Principal Investigator

• Transforming Emergency Shelter into Affordable Housing with Support, funded by Canada’s National Housing Strategy - CMHC
• Long term housing outcomes of under-housed Syrian refugees, funded by SSHRC - Insight
• Simulated professional practice to reduce stigma in mental health nursing, funded by Western University
• Refugees’ Pathways into Emergency Shelter, funded by Western University

Co-Investigator

• Exploring the Impact and Changes that a Temporary Overdose Prevention Site has had on the Lives of the Site Users: A Narrative Study, funded by the Middlesex London Health Unit
• Chronic Pain in Women Living with Social Inequities: A Critical Systems Thinking Approach Analysis, funded by the Women’s College XChange
• Health Equity in Context: Local/Global Solutions for Global/Local Problems, funded by Western University
• The MINDS of London-Middlesex: A community working collectively for youth mental health and wellbeing, funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation
• Adapting and scaling-up “Peer Navigators” to targeted populations of street-involved youth in Canada and Kenya to increase linkage to HIV prevention, testing, and treatment, funded by CIHR – Team Grant
• Mobilizing Narratives for Social Change, funded by SSHRC - PDG

• Oudshoorn, A., Forchuk, C., Hall, J., Smith-Carrier, T., & Van Berkum, A. (2018). An evaluation of a Housing First program for chronically homeless women. Journal of Social Inclusion, 9(2), 34-50.
• Oudshoorn, A., Van Berkum, A., & Van Loon, C. (2018). A history of women’s homelessness: The making of a crisis. Journal of Social Inclusion, 9(1), 5-20.
• Oudshoorn, A., Ward-Griffin, C., Berman, H., Forchuk, C. & Poland, B. (2016). Relationships in healthcare and homelessness: Exploring solidarity. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless. doi: 10.1080/10530789.2016.1254862
• Oudshoorn, A., Ward-Griffin, C., Poland, B., Berman, H., & Forchuk, C. (2013). Community Health Promotion With People who are Experiencing Homelessness. Journal of Community Health Nursing, 30(1), 28-41.
• Oudshoorn, A., Ward-Griffin, C., Forchuk, C., Berman, H., & Poland, B. (2012). Client-Provider Relationships in a Community Health Clinic for People who are Experiencing Homelessness. Nursing Inquiry. doi: 10.1111/nin.12007

• Annor, B. & Oudshoorn, A. (In Press). The health needs of families experiencing homelessness. Housing, Care and Support.
• Fisher, M.E. & Oudshoorn, A. (In Press). Debriefing: A concept analysis. Nursing Education Perspectives.
• Buccieri, K., Oudshoorn, A., Frederick, T., Schiff, R., Abramovich, A.., Gaetz, S. & Forchuk, C. (2019). Hospital discharge planning for Canadians experiencing homelessness. Housing, Care and Support, 22(1), 4-14.
• Oudshoorn, A., Forchuk, C., Hall, J., Smith-Carrier, T., & Van Berkum, A. (2018). An evaluation of a Housing First program for chronically homeless women. Journal of Social Inclusion, 9(2), 34-50.
• Oudshoorn, A., Van Berkum, A., & Van Loon, C. (2018). A history of women’s homelessness: The making of a crisis. The Journal of Social Inclusion, 9(1), 5-20.
• De Forge, R., Ward-Griffin, C., St-Amant, O., Hall, J., McWilliam, C., Forbes, D., Klosek, M. & Oudshoorn, A. (2017). Evaluating dementia home care practices: A reification of care norms. Journal of Aging Studies, 43, 23-31.

• Lawson Health Research Institute (Associate Scientist)
• Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion

• Qualitative Methods
• Mental Health
• Nursing Science
• Community Health
• Health Promotion
• Health Systems

• Western University Newsmaker of the Year, 2018
• Canada 150 Medal Recipient for research and advocacy on ending homelessness, 2018
• Western Humanitarian Award, 2016

• Member, Advisory Council, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
• Partner, Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness