Andrea Chircop

Biography

Dr. Chircop's focus of research is on health equity in public policy, which spans the environmental and sociocultural determinants of health. Building on her doctoral work (Killam Scholar) on environmental health inequities, investigating intersections between gender, class and the environment, she draws from a variety of research methods including institutional and urban ethnography. Her scholarship of teaching is focused on the development of entry-level competencies for public health nursing, the development of a collaborative certificate in public health nursing for undergraduate students in Nova Scotia, and implementation and evaluation of virtual reality simulation for population health nursing education.

Professional Affiliations

• Co-Chair, Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing, Community Health Educators Interest Group
• Interim Co-Chair and Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing, Climate Driven Vector-borne Infectious Diseases, Advisory Committee
• Member, Canadian Public Health Association
• Member, Community Health Nurses Association of Canada

Awards & Honours

• 2005-07 Izaak Walton Killam Honorary Predoctoral Scholarship. Dalhousie University.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Scholarship 2006.
• Faculty of Health Professions Doctoral Scholarship, Dalhousie University 2005-06.

Publications

• Chircop, A. & Cobbett, S. (tbd 2020). Gett’n on the Bus: Evaluation of Sentinel City®3.0 Virtual Simulation in Community/Population Health Clinical Placement. Accepted: International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship.
• Schofield, R., Chircop, A., Farthing, P., Filice, S., Filion, F., Lalonde, S., Mercer Riselli, D., Ryan, M., van Daalen-Smith, C., & Vukic, A. (tbd 2020). Integration of Public Health Nursing Curriculum in Undergraduate Nursing Education and Workforce Readiness: Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study. Revised submission to: Nurse Education Today.
• Schofield, R., Chircop, A., Baker, C., Dietrich Leurer, M., Duncan, S., & Wotton, D. (2018). Entry-to-practice public health nursing competencies: A Delphi-method and knowledge translation strategy. Nurse Education Today, 65, 102-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2018.03.001
• Chircop, A., Bassett, R., & Taylor, E. (2014). Evidence on how to practice intersectoral collaboration for health equity: a scoping review. Critical Public Health. February 14, 2014. DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2014.887831
• Chircop, A., Shearer, C. L., Pitter, R., Sim, M., Rehman,L., Flannery, M., & Kirk, S., F. (2013). Privileging physical activity over healthy eating: “Time” to choose? Health Promotion International. August 14, 2013, DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dat056.
• Chircop, A., Edgecombe, N., Hayward, K., Ducey-Gilbert, C., & Sheppard-LeMoine, D. (2013). Evaluating the integration of cultural competence skills into health and physical assessment tools: A survey of Canadian schools of nursing. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 24(2), 195-203. DOI: 10.1177/1043659612472202.
• Chircop, A. (2012). Public policy analysis to redress urban environmental health inequities. Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice, 12(4), 245-53. DOI: 10.1177/1527154411429198.
• Kuehn, A., Chircop, A., Downe-Wamboldt, B., Sheppard-LeMoine, D., Wittstock, L.,  Herbert, R., Benavides Torres, R. A., Murnaghan, D., & Critchley, K. (2011). Evaluating the impact of a North American nursing exchange program on student cultural awareness.  International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship,8(1), 1-15
• Alvaro, C., Jackson, L.A., Kirk, S., McHugh, T.L., Hughes, J., Chircop, A., and Lyons, R.F. (2010). Moving governmental policies beyond a focus on individual lifestyle: Some insights from complexity and critical theories. Health Promotion International.doi: 10.1093/heapro/daq052.
• Chircop, A.  (2008). An ecofeminist conceptual framework to explore gendered environmental health inequities in urban settings and to inform healthy public policy. Nursing Inquiry, 15(2), 135-147.

Book chapters, Policy papers, Educational manuals:

• Chircop, A. (2020). Ecological determinants of health and environmental health inequities. In Stamler, Yiu, Dosani, Van Daalen-Smith, & Etowa (Eds.). Community Health Nursing: A Canadian perspective. (5^th Ed.). North York: Pearson Canada. pp. 489-502.
• Poland, B., Parkes, M. W., Hancock, T., McKibbon, G., & Chircop, A. (2020). A changing role for public health in the Anthropocene: The contribution of scenario thinking for reimagining the future. In Zywert & Quilley (Eds.). Health in the Anthropocene. Living well on a finite planet. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp.170-188.
• Guidelines for Undergraduate Nursing Education on Climate-Driven Vector-borne Diseases (2020). CASN Climate-Driven Infectious Diseases Committee.
• Curricular Guideline for Integrating Community Health in Baccalaureate Programs of Nursing (2018). CASN Community Health Interest Group.
• Health Equity Lens. Improving social determinants of health and reducing health inequities in Nova Scotia. (2016). Health Equity Lens Reference Group.
• Parkes, M., Chircop, A., McKibbon, G., Poland, B., & Hancock, T. (2015). In T. Hancock, (Ed.). Global Change and Public Health: Addressing the Ecological Determinants of Health. Chapters 6&7. Canadian Association of Public Health (CPHA) Discussion Document. https://www.cpha.ca/discussion-paper-ecological-determinants-health
• Trevor Hancock, Donald W. Spady, & Colin L. Soskolne (Editors); Sandra Allison, Andrea Chircop, Sherilee Harper, George McKibbon, Margot Parkes, Blake Poland (Contributing Authors). 2015. Global Change and Public Health: Addressing the Ecological Determinants of Health. The Report in Brief. CPHA Working Group on the Ecological Determinants of Health. April 2015. Available online at: www.cpha.ca/sites/default/files/assets/policy/edh-brief.pdf.
• Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing. (2014). Entry-to-Practice Public Health Nursing Competencies for Undergraduate Nursing Education. (Public Health Task Force)
  
• Canadian Nurses Association (2008). The role of nurses in greening the health system. Ottawa: Author (Environmental Health Reference Group).