Dawn Smith

Biography

Dr. Dawn Smith is Associate Professor. She holds an Ontario Ministry of Health Mid-Career Nursing Research Award and is collaborator/co-investigator with: the CIHR funded Pan Canadian Population Health Intervention Research Network and the uOttawa-McGill Anishnabe Kekendazone Network Environments for Aboriginal Health Research; a research associate with the Ontario Population Health Improvement Research Network, and co-investigator with the Ontario Training Center in Health Services and Policy Research. Dr Smith has received peer reviewed funding, as principal investigator and co-PI, to conduct research on improving knowledge and capacity for safe and responsive preventive health care for members of marginalized populations. Her research and activities are based on critical socio-ecological theory, and use strengths-based stakeholder engagement and intervention science to better understand and take action to promote socially just systems, policies, programs and relationships. Her teaching has included a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses focused on intervention design and evaluation community health in nursing and interdisciplinary education programs.

Research Interests

• Community health nursing, primary health care, vulnerable and minority populations
• Creating and supporting nurses' capacity to promote health for all
• Using relational knowledge translation and exchange to influence system change
• Improving provider and organizational capacity to facilitate access to health for all
• Improving health intervention design and evaluation with minority populations

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