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Donna is a tenured Professor at the School of Nursing at McMaster University, Project Lead of the Effective Public Health Practice Project and Scientific Director of the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools. Donna has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master of Science in Nursing, both from the University of Western Ontario. She also has a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Toronto. Her primary research interests include knowledge translation, synthesis, and community health.
Donna is the Senior Research Coordinator at EPHPP where she has worked for the past threeyears. Donna has a Master of Social Work degree with a focus on Social Welfare Policy. Her graduate work examined risk and reintegration of federal sentenced women in a Canadian context. At EPHPP, Donna has co-authored several major systematic reviews. Creation of the reviews involves several steps including developing research questions, quality assessment and data extraction, report writing and meetings with review group members. Donna is experienced in listening to and responding to demands from key stakeholders. This is also reflected in her role as a research coordinator at the School of Social Work at McMaster University where Donna contributes to major research projects by completing ethics applications, analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data, doing extensive writing and conducting interviews. Donna comes to this project with clinical social work experience of counseling people in conflict with the law, many of whom had addiction and/or mental health issues.
Leslea joined the EPHPP team in Fall 2010 after completing a 2-year (CHSRF/CIHR funded) postdoctoral fellowship focused on knowledge translation and evidence informed decision making in public health. Prior to the fellowship Leslea worked at the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools where she contributed to an analysis of public health research gaps and coordinated the development of an on-line registry of knowledge translation methods and tools for public health. Leslea has a Bachelors degree in Psychology and a Masters degree in Community Psychology both from Wilfrid Laurier University. She spent six years working in applied social/health research settings before going back to school to complete a PhD in Health and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Toronto.
Rebecca Ganann RN, BScN, MSc is a Lecturer and Research Coordinator in the School of Nursing at McMaster University, Hamilton. She is also in the process of completing a PhD in Nursing at McMaster and is a recipient of a CIHR Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. She currently teaches Professional Community Nursing Practice in the undergraduate nursing program. Her research interests include population and public health, knowledge translation, immigrant women’s health, perinatal health, addressing health inequities, and evidence-informed practice and policy.