I am a historian of nursing and health care
Dr. Sioban Nelson is a professor emeritus at the Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. A historian of nursing and healthcare, her books include “Say Little Do Much”, Nursing, Nuns and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century (Cornell, 2001), and, with Anne Marie Rafferty, Notes on Nightingale: The Influence and Legacy of a Nursing Icon (Cornell, 2010). Dr Nelson’s research interests extend to health policy where she has a particular interest in professional regulation, workplace violence, labor force mobility, and professional issues in nursing and the health professions. She served as editor-in-chief of the journal Nursing Inquiry for 12 years, and co-editor, with Suzanne Gordon, of the multi-disciplinary Culture and Politics of Health Care Work series at Cornell University Press from 2004-2021. She served as Dean of the Faculty of Nursing (2005-2013) and, subsequently, Vice-Provost at the University of Toronto (2013 to 2018). She is Past President of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2020-21), Foundation Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Nursing, and former Chair of the Council of Canadian Academies (2021). She is a recipient of the King Charles III Coronation Medal. Dr. Nelson was a commissioner on the Canadian Nurses Association National Expert Commission for the Future of the Health Care System that launched the “A Nursing Call to Action” report in June 2012. She co-chaired the Assessment Committee on Scope of Practice in the Health Professions for the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and was lead author on the 2014 assessment report. She is currently finalizing a general history of nursing from a material culture perspective.
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1997 to 2001 – Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Melbourne, Australia
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1996 – PhD, Griffith University, Australia
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1985 – Nursing Certificate, Royal Darwin Hospital, Australia
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1976 – BA (Hons), La Trobe University, Australia
Dr. Nelson’s PubMed link is available here.
Fuseini Adam, RN, BSN, MSc
Fuseini Adam is a second-year PhD student in nursing science at the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, and a student of Professor Sioban Nelson. He holds a Master of Science in Public Health from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, a postgraduate diploma in project management in Global Health from the University of Washington, and a BSc in Nursing from the University of Ghana. He has over nine years of diverse experience in clinical care, teaching and volunteering for SOS children’s villages in Ghana. As an aspiring researcher and academic, Fuseini’s research focuses on nurses’ migration from low- and middle-income countries, particularly in Africa.