Edith Hillan

Edith Hillan is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Toronto. From 2002 to 2004, she was the Associate Dean, Academic Programs at U of T Nursing. Between 2004-14, she was Vice-Provost at the University of Toronto where her main area of responsibility was around academic personnel issues. She holds a MPhil in Law & Ethics in Medicine (1994) and a PhD (1990) from the University of Glasgow and a MSc from the University of Strathclyde (1983). She previously held a Personal Chair at the University of Glasgow (UK). Hillan’s current research examines the health of women and newborns from a global perspective. She is particularly interested in technologies which can improve access to high quality healthcare in rural and remote settings and aims to end preventable deaths of mothers and neonates. Her research is highly interdisciplinary and is focused around the development of low cost ‘Clinic-in-a-Box’ technologies for the provision of emergency obstetric care and the support of preterm/low birthweight babies; Point of Care assays which allow high precision lab-based detection techniques to be taken directly to the individual; and field-based education programs aimed at reducing birth related complications.