Colleen Davison
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Research Scientist, KGHRI and the Department of Emergency Medicine
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Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, cross-appointed to Department of Global Development Studies and Department of Emergency Medicine, Queen's University
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo
- Child and adolescent health
- Child rights
- Health equity and systems approaches to health promotion, particularly for vulnerable groups.
Dr. Davison came to Queen’s University and the KGH Research Institute in 2011 following a CIHR-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa. She is a PhD-trained social epidemiologist and global population health researcher.
As a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Doctoral Scholar, Dr. Davison obtained her PhD in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary (2007). Her dissertation was a mixed-methods educational ethnography including a year living in a school residence among Indigenous adolescents in the Tlicho First Nation in Behchoko, NWT. Prior to this, Dr. Davison completed a Master of Public Health as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar at the University of Glasgow, Scotland (2000) and undergraduate degrees in Natural Science, Outdoor Recreation and Education as a Presidential Scholar at Lakehead University (1995; 1996). She undertook a CIDA-funded appointment at the WHO/PAHO regional office in the Dominican Republic in 2001-2002 and has experience working as a consultant with UNICEF-Mongolia, the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, the Canadian International Resource Development Institute, Canadian Nurses Association and the Public Health Agency of Canada. She has sat on the Boards of the Canadian Public Health Association, the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research and the Youth Science Foundation of Canada. In 2012, Dr. Davison was recognized as an outstanding Emerging Researcher from the Population Health Improvement Research Network in Ontario.She currently has ongoing, funded projects in Nunavut, Lebanon, Thailand and Mongolia.
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BSc, HBOR, BEd (OCT), Lakehead University
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MPH, University of Glasgow
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PhD, University of Calgary
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CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship – Knowledge Translation and Global Health
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau Doctoral Scholar
Dr. Davison has diverse methodological expertise. She advises, undertakes her own research and supervises trainees using quantitative, qualitative and participatory approaches. Her overarching research interests are in global child health including issues of social justice and public health, child protection and child rights. She is a member of the ARCH research collaboration for global health equity at Queen’s University and the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research. She is very committed to knowledge translation, public health education and research mentorship.
See also:
Kingston Health Sciences researchers tackling health equity issues world-wide
Additional profile: https://about.me/colleendavison
