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Colleen Varcoe

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Professor EmeritusMacIsaac School of NursingUniversity of British Columbia

Colleen Varcoe

Professor Emeritus

MacIsaac School of Nursing

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Supervision signals

Emeritus professors are retired and rarely take new students.
32 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 7 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 9 research grants (9 CIHR), most recently in 2021.
Supervisor on 4 trainee awards (4 CIHR), most recently in 2020.

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Publications

420

Citations

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Grants

Publications by year

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Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of British Columbia profile.

Health Equity Resilience Cultural Safety Discrimination Arts-Based Methods Incarcerated Peoples' Health Indigenous Health Knowledge And Values Indigenous Peoples

Latest papers

How to cultivate equity-oriented health care at an organizational level: lessons from a process evaluation of EQUIP emergency.
BMC health services research · 2026 · first author
Indigenous Women's Experiences With Perinatal Nursing Care: Beyond Deficit Narratives to Work Toward Sovereign Wellbeing.
ANS. Advances in nursing science · 2026
"Backed into a Corner": Lived experiences of receiving and providing involuntary psychiatric treatment under British Columbia's Mental Health Act.
PloS one · 2026 · senior author

All 88 publications

Latest funding

Lifetime and workplace traumatic events among care aides who work in long-term care homes: Influences on job burnout, mental health, and intention to leave
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$350,369
A.R.T. & Justice: Art & Storytelling towards Holistic Wellbeing, Community Building, and Good Governance for People in Prison in British Columbia
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$93,754
La musique est-elle une prière?
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$120,291

All 34 grants and awards

88 publications.

How to cultivate equity-oriented health care at an organizational level: lessons from a process evaluation of EQUIP emergency.

Varcoe C, Browne AJ, Bungay V, Wathen N, Barker E, Byres D, Stones C, Dolan S, Slemon A, Black A, Cater C, Comber S, Smye V, Price ER

BMC health services research2026First author

DOI: 10.1186/s12913-026-14919-y PMID: 42271368

Indigenous Women's Experiences With Perinatal Nursing Care: Beyond Deficit Narratives to Work Toward Sovereign Wellbeing.

Crosschild C, Varcoe C, Brown H, Browne AJ

ANS. Advances in nursing science2026

DOI: 10.1097/ans.0000000000000665 PMID: 42348713

"Backed into a Corner": Lived experiences of receiving and providing involuntary psychiatric treatment under British Columbia's Mental Health Act.

Snow ME, Salmon A, Banjo J, Morrow M, Varcoe C

PloS one2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0329049 PMID: 42268841

Indigenous women's health and data sovereignty: imagining an Indigenous research methodology using quantitative methods.

Crosschild C, Varcoe C, Brown HJ, Browne AJ

AlterNative (Auckland, N.Z. : 2005)2026

DOI: 10.1177/11771801251392925 PMID: 41940238

Dangerous Times, Deliberate Acts: A Talk on Violence, Agency and Some Possibilities for Response.

Varcoe C

Journal of advanced nursing2026First author

DOI: 10.1111/jan.70532 PMID: 41814536

Effects of nurse-home visiting on intimate partner violence and maternal income, mental health and self-efficacy by 24 months postpartum: a randomised controlled trial (British Columbia Healthy Connections Project)

Catherine NLA, MacMillan H, Jack S, Zheng Y, Xie H, Boyle M, Sheehan D, Gonzalez A, Gafni A, Tonmyr L

BMJ Open20257 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-083147 PMID: W4406106472

Strategies to engage and retain pregnant individuals and young mothers in the nurse-family partnership program (Canada): An interpretive descriptive study

Marcellus L, Jack SM, MacKinnon K, Hill ME, Gonzalez A, Campbell K, Catherine NLA, MacMillan HL, Tonmyr L, Van Borek N

Child Abuse and Neglect20252 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107537

Exploring the implementation of an evidence-based health promotion intervention for women experiencing intimate partner violence (iHEAL) in diverse contexts: Study Protocol

Ford-Gilboe M, Scott-Storey K, Browne AJ, Varcoe C, Burd C, Campbell K, Garinger C, Jack S, Lynch K, Malcolm J

PLoS ONE20251 citations

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0330285

History of childhood maltreatment, prenatal cortisol levels, and executive functioning: A cross-sectional study using data from the Healthy Foundations Study

De Rubeis V, Wang E, Joshi D, Catherine N, MacMillan HL, Waddell C, Boyle M, Tonmyr L, Atkinson L, Jack SM

Child Abuse and Neglect2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107602

Social justice as nursing resistance: a foucauldian discourse analysis within emergency departments.

Slemon A, Bungay V, Varcoe C, Blanchet Garneau A

Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals2025

DOI: 10.1111/nup.12508 PMID: 39560379

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Health Equity Dear Professor Varcoe, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "How to cultivate equity-oriented health care at an organizational level: lessons from a process evaluation of EQUIP emergency." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "A.R.T. & Justice: An Arts-Based and Indigenous-Led Intervention for Strengthening Mental Health & Wellbeing for People Affected by the Canadian Carceral System" (2021), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

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Colleen Varcoe

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

How to cultivate equity-oriented health care at an organizational level: lessons from a process evaluation of EQUIP emergency.

Indigenous Women's Experiences With Perinatal Nursing Care: Beyond Deficit Narratives to Work Toward Sovereign Wellbeing.

"Backed into a Corner": Lived experiences of receiving and providing involuntary psychiatric treatment under British Columbia's Mental Health Act.

Indigenous women's health and data sovereignty: imagining an Indigenous research methodology using quantitative methods.

Dangerous Times, Deliberate Acts: A Talk on Violence, Agency and Some Possibilities for Response.

Effects of nurse-home visiting on intimate partner violence and maternal income, mental health and self-efficacy by 24 months postpartum: a randomised controlled trial (British Columbia Healthy Connections Project)

Strategies to engage and retain pregnant individuals and young mothers in the nurse-family partnership program (Canada): An interpretive descriptive study

Exploring the implementation of an evidence-based health promotion intervention for women experiencing intimate partner violence (iHEAL) in diverse contexts: Study Protocol

History of childhood maltreatment, prenatal cortisol levels, and executive functioning: A cross-sectional study using data from the Healthy Foundations Study

Social justice as nursing resistance: a foucauldian discourse analysis within emergency departments.

A.R.T. & Justice: Art & Storytelling towards Holistic Wellbeing, Community Building, and Good Governance for People in Prison in British Columbia

La musique est-elle une prière?

Frequent collaborators

Marilyn Ford-Gilboe

Vicky Bungay

Harriet MacMillan

Susan Jack

Victoria Smye

Andrea Gonzalez

Lenora Marcellus

Kelly Scott-Storey

Charlotte Waddell

Helen Brown

Bruce Wallace

Nadine Wathen

Victoria Smye

Michael Boyle

Judith Wuest

Allie Slemon

Amiram Jacob Gafni

Tara Mantler

Hui Xie

David Byres

Nicole Catherine

David Tu

Sabrina Wong

Agnes Black

Chloe Crosschild

Viviane Josewski

Lawrence McCandless

Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha

Karen Campbell

Christine Kurtz Landy

Ambreen Sayani

Amélie Blanchet Garneau

Rochelle Einboden

Marina Morrow

Bernadette Pauly

Sepali Guruge

Victoria Bungay

Amy Salmon

Jennifer Baumbusch

Ian Pike