Dr. Josephine Etowa, PhD, RN, FWACN, FAAN FCAN FCAHS
Dr. Etowa is a professor at the University of Ottawa, Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN) Chair in Black Women’s HIV Prevention and Care. She held the Loyer-DaSilva Research Chair in Public Health Nursing (2012–2019), and is past Co-Chair of the Community Health Nurses national standards revision working group, and past president of the Health Association of African Canadians.
Dr. Etowa is a transformational leader in anti-racist health equity research, the founder and lead investigator of the CO-CREATH Lab, and senior investigator with the University of Ottawa’s Centre for Research on Health and Nursing.
Grounded in over 25 years of clinical practice, Dr. Etowa’s research program includes nationally and internationally funded studies on health equity, perinatal health, COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, nurses’ work life, and community health nursing. Her research is informed by an intersectionality lens, socio-ecological theories and the tenets of community-based participatory research (CBPR). She is an internationally educated nurse and midwife, with BScN and MN from Dalhousie University and PhD from the University of Calgary.
If you would like to book Dr. Etowa for a speaking engagement, please contact Dan Shu.
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CO-CREATH Lab Staff
Amoy Jacques, MPH
Program Manager
Glory Osandatuwa
Research Administrative Assistant
Dan Shu
Administrative Assistant
Akalewold T. Gebremeskel, MSc, PhD (c)
PhD student supervised by Dr J. Etowa
Research Coordinator
