Clinical Education
Master of Health Leadership and Policy
School of Nursing
Established in 1919, the UBC School of Nursing has almost 100 years of experience educating nursing leaders and innovating research. We have an international reputation for research and scholarship, guided by a vision of excellence in nursing education, research and practice.
The UBC School of Nursing is home to the first degree program in nursing in the Commonwealth and was one of the first academic programs established at UBC after the university’s inception in 1915.
UBC’s graduate nursing programs position you as a leader to improve health care equity, advance nursing knowledge, and envision a new healthcare landscape. Learn from leading scholars with international reputations for research, and join a community of nursing scholars at one of the world's top-ranked universities.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Abdulai, Fatawu | Clinical nursing, primary (preventive care); Health informatics; human-computer interaction; Health technology design; Informatics/Digital health; Sexual health equity |
| Auxier, Jenny | Adaptation, benefits, and usefulness of Perinatal Digital Health Services, Integration of Patient Engagement into Digital Health Services |
| Baumbusch, Jennifer | long-term residential care, family caregiving, Intellectual Disability, nursing care of older adults |
| Boschma, Geertje | History of nursing and health care, with special emphasis on mental health and mental health nursing |
| Brown, Helen Jean | Maternal-infant and women |
| Browne, Annette | Health inequalities, indigenous peoples, women's health, cultural safety, primary health care interventions to improve health outcomes, marginalized populations, health policy |
| Bungay, Vicky | sexuality, sex work, harm reduction, drug use, intersectionality, ethnography, communication technologies, community based research, Health inequities affecting men and women working in the commercial sex industry and people who are street-involved, leadership, public health nursing, mental health, sexual health, HIV, and harm reduction programming |
| Clark, Drew | Health sciences; healthcare ethics; Health Equity; healthcare decision making; transgender health |
| Currie, Leanne | Nursing; Health Care Technologies; Health information systems; Biomedical and Health Informatics |
| Dahinten, Susan | Social determinants and processes of child development, identification, intervention and the prevention of developmental problems |
| Dev, Rubee | Pediatrics and reproductive medicine, n.e.c.; Nursing; women's health; maternal & child health; sexual & reproductive health; chronic disease prevention & management; health system & services |
| Garrett, Bernard Mark | Nursing; Health Care Technologies; Ethics and Health; Deception in Healthcare; Media Influence on Behavior; Virtual Reality (VR); Augmented reality; Evidence-based practice; Alternative Medicine; CAM; Healthcare Regulation |
| Goodyear, Trevor | |
| Haase, Kristen | Nursing, n.e.c.; oncology; Older Adults; Geriatric oncology; Health systems research; Mixed Methods Research; Qualitative research; Self-management; E-health |
| Havaei, Farinaz | Nursing; factors that influence nurses’ ability to provide effective patient care; health human resource optimization |
| Hirani, Saima | Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Mental health nursing; Social sciences; mental health; Mental health promotion; psychosocial interventions; Vulnerable Groups; social support; resilience |
| Howard, Fuchsia | health service needs of vulnerable, high-risk survivors of acute life-threatening illness, specifically, cancer survivors and survivors of critical illnesses; hereditary cancer prevention and risk management and psychosocial and ethnocultural factors that shape health and illness experiences |
| Hung, Lillian | Geriatric nursing; Medical and biomedical engineering; Impact of technology and environment on the care experiences of persons with dementia; dementia education; quality improvement; Participatory action research |
| Jenkins, Emily | optimizing mental health and substance use outcomes; collaborative mental health promotion strategies; health services and policy development and redesign; knowledge translation approaches; healthy public policy development |
| Lauck, Sandra | Geriatrics and gerontology; Nursing; Care; health service delivery to support the implementation of innovative approaches to cardiac disease; minimally invasive treatment of valvular heart disease |
| Ojukwu, Emmanuela | Health sciences; Social sciences; Humanities and the arts; Racial and gender health disparities and inequities; African, Carribbean and Black Immigrant Health; Women, Maternal-Infant, Youth Health; Psycho-social and Socio-ecologic determinants of health; Mental health, HIV/AIDS and other STIs; intersectionality |
| Oliffe, John | Care; Sociology and related studies; Men's Health Promotion; Male Depression and Suicide; Psychosocial Prostate Cancer Care; Smoking Cessation |
| Phinney, Alison | Capacities of older people for successfully coping with the functional consequences of aging and disease |
| Ramsay, Scott | impact of neurological disorders on children and youth, their families, and the health care system; health inequities; health and wellbeing of children and youth |
| Ranger, Manon | Neurodevelopment; Clinical nursing, secondary (acute care); neurodevelopment; Early-adversity; Biomarkers of early stress exposure; Brain development; pain; Prematurity |
| Russolillo, Angela | Health services research; health services use among individuals with psychiatric and substance use disorders |
| Saewyc, Elizabeth | Homeless or street involved youth, sexual minority youth, sexual exploitation of youth, discrimination, trauma and resilience., Youth health issues, stigma, violence, trauma, adolescent health, protective factors, sexual minority, homeless, immigrant, indigenous |
| Wong, Sabrina | Primary Health Care, Primary Care, vulnerable populations, marginalized groups, ethno-cultural, patient experiences, quality of care, Organization and delivery of health care, informing practice and system level interventions that seek to decrease health inequalities among Canadian residents, including people who face multiple disadvantages in accessing and using the health care system such as those who have language barriers and live in poverty |
| Wytenbroek, Lydia | History of medicine and health care; Nursing; Nursing/Health History; Gender/Women's History; Social justice; Science and Technology |
