Lillian Wright Maternal-Child Institute explores research from lab to community

From the lab to community-based research is the theme of the second Lillian Wright Maternal-Child Institute at York University. The one-day institute, organized by Echo’s Chair in Women’s Mental Health Research in partnership with the Faculty of Health, will take place Friday, Sept. 27, from 9am to 4pm, at 280N York Lanes, Keele campus. Lunch […]

Talk looks at filling in puzzle of social justice framework for health

York nursing Professor Sannie Tang will talk about a social justice framework for critical health research at the next Women’s Mental Health and Well-Being Speakers Series. The talk, “Filling in the Puzzle of a Social Justice Framework for Critical Health Research: Lessons Learned from Iris Young and Paulo Freire,” will take place Tuesday, Nov. 20, […]

Nursing prof named 2012 Pat Griffin scholar

Nursing Professor Mina Singh has been named the 2012 Pat Griffin Nursing Education Research Scholar by the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN). The honour comes with a $10,000 grant to help Singh, of York’s School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health, promote her nursing education research through inquiry, mentorship and dissemination. The […]

Professor Christine Jonas-Smith premieres film on families living with perinatal loss

York nursing Professor Christine Jonas-Simpson has always been keenly interested in loss and grief, how people experience it and how they integrate it into their lives in a continuing way. It was while doing research on daughters who had lost their mothers to Alzheimer’s disease that Jonas-Simpson experienced what she calls “the deepest loss of my […]

Nursing Professors Patricia Bradley and Christine Jonas-Simpson win provincial teaching awards

Pair recognized for graduate and undergraduate teaching excellence Two York nursing professors have won provincial awards for innovative and excellent teaching. At its fourth annual awards ceremony Saturday, the Council of Ontario Universities Programs in Nursing (COUPN) presented Patricia Bradley with the Teaching Innovation Award and Christine Jonas-Simpson with the Excellence in Teaching Award. Above: […]

Professor Christine Jonas Simpson transforms son's stillbirth into groundbreaking research

Stillbirths claim more lives each year than HIV-AIDS and malaria combined When Christine Jonas-Simpson’s son Ethan was born, there was an eerie quiet in the delivery room, and then a piercing wail, wrote The Globe and Mail's Andre Picard April 13. “The only cry I heard was my own,” she said somberly. Ethan was dead, […]

CIHR-funded nursing study finds specialized senior care delivers best hospital outcomes

Seniors receiving hospital care in acute care for elders units have shorter hospital stays, experience fewer declines in physical functioning and are less likely to be discharged to a nursing home than when treated in regular hospital units. This is one of the preliminary findings of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded study led at York. […]

Professor Sherry Grace's cardiac rehabilitation study attracts Canadian coverage

Ensuring that heart patients get automatically referred [for rehabilitation programs] as they're leaving the hospital can make a difference, argues Sherry Grace, of York University and the University Health Network, and her colleagues in a paper published Monday in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, wrote the Hamilton Spectator, the Waterloo Region Record, the Canadian […]

Professor Nazilla Khanlou's research advocates for immigrants and mental health

Imagine the stress of uprooting your family to make a new life in a new country in a new language. For women, adapting can be a very different experience than that of their children. Depending on their resilience and their situation, some adapt better than others. Nazilla Khanlou knows. An immigrant herself, she's been studying […]

November is Research Month: York celebrates with a series of events

Research Month celebrates the achievements and diversity of York University’s research community. Throughout November, the Vari Hall Rotunda will play host to displays and demonstrations featuring our faculty and graduate researchers. Drop by between 10 am and 2 pm each Wednesday to learn what York's researchers are doing. The Research Month index on York's Research […]