Susan Jack

Dr. Jack is Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing and an Associate Member in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Jack graduated with her BScN from the University of Alberta and has practiced clinically as a public health nurse and manager working with vulnerable populations. She completed her PhD in Clinical Health Sciences in 2003 (McMaster University) and from 2004-2006 she completed a Canadian Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institutes of Health Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences (McMaster) with intensive time spent studying within the Knowledge Utilization Studies Program at the University of Alberta. She currently holds a five-year New Investigator personnel award from the Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health, Reproduction and Child Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Dr. Jack is also a Core Faculty Member of the Offord Centre for Child Studies, an Associate Member of the Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing and an Associate Researcher for the National Collaborating Centre for Tools and Methods. Nationally, she is a member of the National Steering Committee for the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse of Neglect and sits as co-chair of the Knowledge Translation committee for this national child maltreatment surveillance program coordinated through the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Dr. Jack has developed expertise in both designing and conducting qualitative and mixed methods research studies. Her program of research is focused on two primary content areas: 1) Community-based approaches for the prevention of family violence; and 2) Knowledge transfer and exchange processes. She is currently leading studies to develop a nursing intervention to address intimate partner violence within the context of an intensive, evidence-based nurse home visitation program, to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the Nurse-Family Partnership Pilot program in its first Canadian implementation, and studies to explore the processes of research uptake and utilization in public health, child welfare and environmental health contexts.

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Email:jacksm@mcmaster.ca