Pat Armstrong Explained

Pat Armstrong
Education:University of Toronto (BA)
Carleton University (MA, PhD)
Spouse:Hugh Armstrong
Honors:Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Pat Armstrong is a Canadian sociologist and Distinguished Research Professor at York University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Armstrong has served as a Chair for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Health Services and Nursing Research and the Department of Sociology at York University.

Career

In 2007, Armstrong was awarded the Ontario Health Coalition’s Ethel Meade Award for Excellence in Research in the Public Interest.[1]

While at York University, Armstrong served as Chair of the Department of Sociology. She also helped found the National Network on Environments and Women's Health, where she served as its director, before earning the title of Chair of Women and Health Care Reform.[2] She also worked as a Chair for the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Health Services and Nursing Research[1] and as a Research Associate for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.[3] In 2010, Armstrong was named a York University Distinguished Research Professor[4] and in 2011 was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[5]

In 2017, Armstrong was awarded York University's Faculty of Graduate Studies Postdoctoral Supervisor of the Year Award.[6] As a Distinguished Research Professor, Armstrong helped begin a project called "Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices" which searched for solutions to problems residents and care providers faced in long-term care. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Major Collaborative Research Initiatives program granted the research group $2.5 million in funding.[7] The following year she was a recipient of the YWCA Toronto Women of Distinction.[1]

Armstrong is a member of the board for the Canadian Health Coalition, an organization working with the Government of Canada to increase funding for socialized health care in the country.[8]

COVID-19

Armstrong sits on the Congregate Care Setting Working Group of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table.[9] She received a research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to study the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on long-term care facilities, in order to identify promising practices for family engagement that balances safety and the joy and well-being of residents and their families.[10]

Publications

List of publications:[2] [11]

Personal life

Armstrong is married to Dr. Hugh Armstrong, a professor at Carleton University.[12]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Prof. Pat Armstrong among YWCA's 2018 Women of Distinction . soci.laps.yorku.ca . April 1, 2019 . March 16, 2018.
  2. Web site: Pat Armstrong . 24 May 2018 . yorku.ca . April 1, 2019.
  3. Web site: Research Associates . policyalternatives.ca . April 1, 2019.
  4. Web site: Pat Armstrong . canadianscholars.ca . April 1, 2019.
  5. News: Rochelle Braham . York professors receive top honours . April 1, 2019 . Excalibur . November 16, 2011 . April 2, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190402002702/https://excal.on.ca/york-professors-receive-top-honours/ . dead .
  6. Web site: Professor Pat Armstrong honoured with Postdoctoral Supervisor Award . laps.yorku.ca . April 1, 2019 . September 14, 2017.
  7. Web site: York researcher Pat Armstrong is identifying promising practices for understanding and organizing long-term residential care . research.info.yorku.ca . April 1, 2019 . January 9, 2017.
  8. Web site: Armstrong . Pat . 2021-08-21 . Declaration of Interest . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220505002048/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Declaration-of-Interest_Congregate-Care-Setting-Working-Group_Pat-Armstrong_20210821.pdf . 2022-05-05 . 2022-05-20 . Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table.
  9. Web site: About Us . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220518203724/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/ . 2022-05-18 . 2022-05-20 . . en-US.
  10. Web site: 2021 . Covid-19, families and long-term residential care – Re-imagining Long-term Residential Care . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520183233/https://reltc.apps01.yorku.ca/covid-19-familes-and-long-term-residential-care . 2022-05-20 . 2022-05-20 . . en-CA.
  11. Web site: Armstrong, Pat . worldcat.org . April 1, 2019.
  12. Web site: Carleton Professor Hugh Armstrong Honoured by Council on Aging . newsroom.carleton.ca . April 1, 2019 . June 18, 2010. He and Pat Armstrong (spouse), an adjunct professor in Canadian Studies at Carleton, have written widely on women and work and on health care..