Nancy Edwards, RN, PhD
Professor, School of Nursing and Department
of Epidemiology and Community Medicine,
CHSRF/CIHR Nursing Chair – Multiple
Intervention for Community Health Nursing,
Director, Community Health Research Unit,
Principal Scientist, Population Health Institute
Senior Scientist, Elisabeth Bruyere Research
Institute
Vice Chair and Member, Governing Council,
CIHR
My Program of Research
• Multi-strategy and multi-level interventions
in community health
Multiple Interventions
Graduate Courses (2007-8)
• Designing and evaluating multi-level and
multi-strategy interventions - NSG 6115
• Population health interventions – POP
8930
Examples of Current Research
Projects (funder)
• Population health evidence-based
decision-making - Provincial Prenatal
Records (CIHR)
• Evidence-informed service delivery
models (CHSRF, program of research)
• Strengthening nurses’ capacity in HIV
policy development in sub-Saharan Africa
and the Caribbean (IDRC, program of
research)
Opportunities
• Ontario Training Centre for Health Services and
Policy Research**
• ACADRE Training Centre**
• Work in progress sessions, multiple
interventions community of practice sessions
(other graduate students and postdocs)
• International research internship (2008-2010)
• Get involved in programs of research
• Contribute to writing teams