Nancy Edwards, RN, BScN, MSc, PhD

Nancy is a Professor with the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa. She also holds a cross appointment with the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine.

In June 2000, Dr. Edwards was awarded a Nursing Chair by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The focus of her research is multiple interventions for community health nursing.

Dr. Edwards' research career has spanned three continents. She has led community health research projects in sub-Saharan Africa, China and Canada.

Her research interests are the design and evaluation of complex, multi-level, and multi-component community health programs. Recent studies have focused on tobacco cessation, fall prevention among seniors, and the transfer and uptake of research evidence. Local, provincial and federal decision making partners are involved in many of these studies.

Currently, Nancy holds an appointment as Vice-Chair of the Advisory Board for the CIHR Institute of Public and Population Health.

At the University of Ottawa, Nancy serves as Director of both the Population Health PhD Program and the Community Health Research Unit (a health system-linked research unit funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care).

She is a visiting professor of Guerrero University (Mexico), and Tianjin Medical University (China) and in 2000, was awarded an honorary lifetime membership by the Canadian Public Health Association.

Reflections on a Journey - Presented at Canadian Nurses Association National Leadership Conference, February, 2003