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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.
Rebecca completed her Master’s degree in nursing in the fall of 2008 and is currently a PhD student within the School of Nursing at McMaster University. Her graduate research has focused on immigrant women’s postpartum health and access to services. Rebecca is currently a research assistant at EPHPP, Research Coordinator/Doctoral Student at the Canadian Community Health Nursing Study, McMaster University, and an instructor at McMaster University’s School of Nursing. Rebecca recently completed a paper on rapid review methodologies which she presented at the 7th annual Canadian Cochrane Symposium in March 2009.
Sharon is highly skilled in multimedia and technology, having completed studies in a range of different computer technologies at Fanshawe College and Sheridan College. Sharon assists in literature searches and plays a vital role in formatting and finalizing EPHPP’s different products.