Colleen Varcoe

Dr. Colleen Varcoe

Professor

Email: colleen.varcoe@ubc.ca

Website: UBC Nursing profile

Biography

Dr. Colleen Varcoe, RN, PhD, is a professor in the University of British Columbia School of Nursing. Her work aims to decrease inequity and violence including interpersonal and structural forms of violence such as racism and stigma related to poverty and substance use. Completed research includes studies of the risks for and health effects of violence and promoting health for women who experience violence, especially Indigenous women. She has studied how to promote equity-oriented healthcare (cultural safety/antiracism, substance use health/harm reduction, and trauma- and violence-informed care) at the organizational level and worked with Indigenous communities, organizations and issues in health care and criminal justice contexts.