Dr. Nadine Wathen

Dr. Nadine Wathen is a Full Professor in the Health Information Science (HIS) Program in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS) at The University of Western Ontario. She is a Research Scholar at the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children in Western's Faculty of Education, and holds an affiliate appointment in Western’s Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research.  Wathen is the founding director of Western's Joint Graduate Program in Health Information Science (HIS). She is an inter-disciplinary researcher, with well-established and productive partnerships with scholars, clinician-scientists, and community partners from a number of academic institutions, governments, non-government organizations, and community agencies. Wathen takes a collaborative research approach to answer – both theoretically and at a more practical level – important questions in the area of women’s health, especially violence against women and children and health equity. Her research develops and evaluates interventions for women and children experiencing violence, and seeks to enhance the science of knowledge translation and exchange (KTE) to ensure that new knowledge emerging from research is made available, in appropriate ways, to health decision-makers including policy-makers, health care providers, advocates, and members of the public. A particular focus is developing interventions that enhance health equity, and take a gendered, trauma- and violence-informed approach to providing services for people experiencing violence and/or marginalization. Wathen describes her research on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wL-Ax1rzYY

Her teaching focuses on educating future health information professionals and scholars. She teaches courses mainly in the HIS program, including graduate courses on Interdisciplinary Issues in HIS, and Social Contexts of Health Information, as well as electives on evidence-based health care methods and searching for health-related evidence; the role of information and information professionals in the health care system; and research methods.

Research Achievements | Professional

I have been privileged to work with excellent colleagues and research teams, and with them have received over $24M in research funding (~$9.5M as principal or co-principal investigator) and have authored over 200 scholarly products, including over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles.  These are summarized in my CV, with more details available at http://nadinewathen.ca/.

Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada | Professional

In 2015 I was named as a Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada, with the presentation ceremony held in November 2015.

CIHR New Investigator Award | Professional

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)/Ontario Women’s Health Council 5-year Fellowship

CIHR Post-doctoral Fellowship | Professional

Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Ontario Women’s Health Council 2-year Fellowship

Awards and Teaching Recognition | Professional

I was, from July 2014 to June 2016, a Western Faculty Scholar. In 2011 I received the FIMS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, an honour for which I was nominated again in 2012 (nomination declined). From 2013 to 2016, I was named to the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Honour Roll.

See CV for details of research grants received

Details:

Grants as Principal or co-Principal Investigator = $9,600,545; as Co-Investigator/Collaborator = $15,241,953. Total Funding = $24,842,498

Preventing Violence Across the Lifespan (PreVAiL) Research Network

Violence Evidence Guidance Action (VEGA) Project Site

Professional website