rrodney@yorku.ca

Dr. Ruth Rodney is a mother, registered nurse, and Assistant Professor at York University’s School of Nursing where she teaches global health, women’s health, and theoretical approaches to nursing science.  She entered the academic and research field with 15 years of frontline nursing experience in a number of clinical areas in Canada and globally. Her research focuses on violence prevention and health promotion primarily using critical qualitative methodologies to examine how communities can create environments that support healthy relationship development. She is an academic fellow at the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research at the University of Toronto and currently serves as a grant reviewer for the Youth Opportunity Fund that focuses on funding Black and Indigenous led community projects addressing systemic barriers in Ontario. Dr. Rodney also serves her community in Hamilton, Ontario as a board member for the Afro Canadian Caribbean Association and the Canadian Mental Health Association.

Clusters: Genders and Sexualities, Health and Disability