Nancy Poole

I am a researcher with the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where I do research on women and substance use issues.  I have a fellowship with IMPART, a strategic research training program on gender women and addiction, funded by the Canadian Insitutes for Health Research.  I am also a trainee with the NEXUS group at the University of British Columbia, which has an interest in the social context of health behaviour change.

My thesis is on the topic of "knowledge translation" on women’s health issues, specifically about the potential of virtual communities of inquiry as forums that support the collaborative exchange, synthesis and application of knowledge on women’s health, on the part of researchers, service providers, policy makers/enacters and women’s health advocates in a way that improves the lives of women with substance use problems and addictions.

Book

Poole, N., & Greaves, L. (Eds.). (2007). Highs and Lows: Canadian Perspectives on Women and Substance Use. Toronto, ON: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Six recent peer reviewed articles

1.Greaves, L. Reid, C., & N. Poole (2008). Good, Bad, Thwarted or Addicted? Discourses of Substance-Using Mothers. Critical Social Policy, 28(2), 211-230.

2.Poole, N. (Spring 2007). Gender does matter: Coalescing on women and substance use. CrossCurrents: The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health. 10(3), 8.

3.Poole, N. (2007). Connecting Virtually: Webcast on women, violence and substance use. Visions: BC's Mental Health and Addictions Journal, 3(3), 25-26.

4.Greaves L., Chabot C., Jategaonkar N., Poole N., McCullough L. (2006). Substance use among women in shelters for abused women and children: Programming opportunities. Can J Public Health. 97(5):388-92.

5.Greaves L. & Poole N. (2005) Victimized or validated? Responses to substances-using pregnant women. Canadian Woman Studies Journal, Volume 24, Number 1, 87-95.

6.Greaves, L., Pederson A., Varcoe, C., Poole, N., Morrow, M., Johnson, J., Irwin, L. (2004) Mothering under Duress:Women caught in a web of discourses.Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, 6.1(4), 16-27.

In press

1.Poole, N. (in press). How can consciousness raising principles inform modern knowledge translation practices in women’s health? Canadian Journal of Nursing Research.

2.Poole, N., Greaves, L., Jategaonkar, N., McCullough, L., & Chabot, C. (in press). Substance Use by Women Using Domestic Violence Shelters. Substance Use and Misuse, 43(Special Issue on Women).

3.Greaves, L., & Poole, N. (in press). Bringing sex and gender into women’s substance use treatment programs. Substance Use and Misuse, 43(Special Issue on Women).

4.Bottorff, J., Poole, N., & FACET Investigative Team. (in press). Reducing smoking among mothers. CIHR Casebook 2007.

5.Ahmad, N., Flight, J., Singh, V.S., Poole, N. & Dell, C.A. (in press). Canadian Addiction Survey (CAS): Focus on Gender. Ottawa, ON: Health Canada

ActNow BC - Healthy Choices in Pregnancy

Coalescing on Women's Substance Use: Linking Research Practice and Policy

British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health

Highs and Lows: Canadian Perspectives on Women and Substance Use