Abe Oudshoorn, PhD

Associate Professor
Room 2304, FNB
519-661-2111 x86042
aoudsho@uwo.ca
- Personal Website
- On Twitter: @abeoudshoorn
Education and Training
- BScN, PhD (Western University)
Academic Appointments
- Department of Psychiatry, Western University
Research in Profile
Research Interests
- Homelessness prevention
- Women’s homelessness
- Health promotion
- Refugee housing outcomes
- Qualitative methods
- Participatory action research
- Poverty and health
- Mental health
- Public policy
- Health equity
Additional Information
Current Projects
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
Featured Projects/Publications
- 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
Recent Publications
- 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.
Research Affiliations
- Lawson Health Research Institute (Associate Scientist)
- Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion
Teaching Areas
- Qualitative Methods
- Mental Health
- Nursing Science
- Community Health
- Health Promotion
- Health Systems
Awards
- Western University Newsmaker of the Year, 2018
- Canada 150 Medal Recipient for research and advocacy on ending homelessness, 2018
- Western Humanitarian Award, 2016
Professional Activities
- Member, Advisory Council, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
- Partner, Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness