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Susan Jack
Professor, Nursing
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Overview

Dr. Jack is Professor and the Dorothy C. Hall Chair in Nursing Research, School of Nursing with a career grounded in public health nursing practice, education and research. The foci of her program of research is the development, evaluation, and scale-up of interventions to: 1) prevent or address family violence and 2) promote maternal and child health outcomes through home visitation programs. As part of this work, she has been a lead nurse researcher involved in adapting, piloting, evaluating, and implementing Nurse-Family Partnership in Canada. She is the Lead for the Public Health Nursing Practice, Research and Education Program, committed to integrating principles of trauma-and violence-informed care to advance public health nursing practice and education. As a methodologist, she is committed to advancing approaches to conducting applied qualitative health research and mixed methods studies.

Background

Degrees

PhD
McMaster University
BScN
University of Alberta

Postgraduate training

Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University (2004 - 2006)

Contact

jacksm@mcmaster.ca
(905) 525-9140 ext. 26383