- Dr. Barbara Keddy, School of Nursing,
has expertise in women’s health issues, women and aging, health
care reform and qualitative, feminist research. With supervision of
over 110 Ph.D. and master’s students and 24 research projects in
the area of women and health, she has extensive experience in
mentoring students and colleagues. She is currently writing a book
on her longitudinal case study research focused on the menopause
experiences of women.
- Josephine Etowa, School of Nursing, has
been involved in syntheses of health research concerning minority
populations, including the African Nova Scotian community. Her
research projects include community capacity building projects
focusing on Black health and culturally sensitive health policies
for immigrant women.
- Dr. Wanda Thomas Bernard, Maritime
School of Social Work, has worked over the years to foster links
among academics, frontline practitioners, and African Canadian
communities. She has been instrumental in the development of
community-based and collaborative research teams and is PI on a CIHR
New Emerging Team grant (2002-2007). She has given many invited
presentations, keynote speeches and workshops on racism and cultural
competence in the health professions.
- Dr. Felicia Eghan, Family Studies and
Gerontology (MSVU), has worked closely with immigrant women as a
founding member of the United African Women’s Association. She
brings expertise in family and community relationships. Dr.
Jacqueline Gahagan, Deputy Director of the Atlantic Centre of
Excellence on Women’s Health, has extensive collaborative research
experience, including a current large scale research project centred
on the links between women’s unpaid caregiving and health status.
She also has significant experience in community health education
and promotion.
- Charlotte Loppie, School of Health and
Human Performance, has engaged in masters level research on the
menopause experiences of First Nations and African Nova Scotian
women; she continues this investigation with First Nations women at
the doctoral level. She also brings her experience with cross
cultural collaborative work as a member of the Mik’maq Health
Research Group.
- Dr. Brenda Beagan: a medical sociologist
working in the School of Occupational Therapy, focuses on the
examination of how social inequalities – race, class, culture,
ability/ disability, gender and sexual orientation – affect health
and well being; a second focus is the training and work of health
care professionals. She uses and teaches mixed methods and has
experience as a community researcher.
- Susan Edmonds,
Chair of the Health Association of African Canadians, practices as a
mental health nurse with a particular interest in midlife women and
depression. She has an extensive history of community organizing is
an invited participant for numerous health and well being
consultations, conferences, and policy development groups.
- Sharon Davis-Murdoch, Senior Health
Policy Analyst with the Nova Scotia government, has engaged in
primary care health research with a focus on determinants of health.
With Jacqueline Gahagan, she will support the project’s work
toward the uptake and transfer of research knowledge into policy and
programming decisions.
- Dr. Anne Houstoun, a Family Physician at
the North End Community Health Clinic (NECHC), has extensive
clinical experience with African Nova Scotian women, including
affiliation with the Black Women’s Health Group and Metro
Immigrant Services Association. Chief of Family Medicine at the IWK
Health Center, she is a founding member of the Multicultural
Committee and is currently developing an affirmative action policy
for the IWK and an antiracism policy for the NECHC.
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