Janet Curran

Professor


Email: jacurran@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-2668
Fax: 902-494-3487
Mailing Address: 
Room 121, Forrest Bldg.,
Dalhousie University
PO Box 15000
5869 University Avenue
Halifax NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Knowledge translation research
  • Pediatric emergency care
  • Mixed methods
  • Health professional behaviour change
  • Knowledge synthesis
  • Implementation science

Biography

Dr Curran is Professor in the School of Nursing and the inaugural Quality and Patient Safety Research Chair in Nova Scotia. She is the Scientific Lead in the Strengthening Transitions in Care lab at IWK Health where her program of research is focused on co-designing and evaluating best practice and policy change interventions to improve transitions in care for patients and families. Her co-design work is informed by collaborating with multiple stakeholders including patients, parents and caregivers, healthcare providers, and policy makers. Dr. Curran is Co-director of the JBI Centre of Excellence in the School of Nursing and Implementation Science Co-Lead for the national CHILD-BRIGHT Network.

Memberships

  • 2016/9 Committee Member, Capacity Development Advisory Committee., Maritime SPORSupport Unit
  • 2016/9 Chair, Appointments, Reappointments, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Dalhousie University School of Nursing Committee
  • 2016/1 Committee Member, Research Advisory Committee, Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit2015/12 Advisory Committee Member, Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit
  • 2014/4 Committee Member, KT Canada Training Committee, KT Canada

Awards & Honours

  • 2018/6 Canadian Pediatric Society Emergency Medicine Research Award - 500 (Canadian dollar) Canadian Pediatric Society  Prize / Award
  • 2015 Early Career Research Award, Faculty of Health Professions, Dalhousie University
  • 2015 Terry Klassen Young Investigator Award, Pediatric Emergency Research Canada
  • 2014-2019  CIHR New Investigator Salary Award, Total $300 000
  • 2011-2015  IWK Investigatorship Award. IWK Health Centre, Total: $240 000
  • 2009-2011  CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Total: $110 000

Publications   

  • Curran, J., Wozney, L., Tavender, E., Wilson, C., Ritchie, K.C., Wong, H., Gallant, A., Somerville, M., Archambault, P.M., Cassidy, C., Jabbour, M., Mackay, R., Plint, A.C., 2023. Implementing Electronic Discharge Communication Tools in Pediatric Emergency Departments: Multicountry, Cross-Sectional Readiness Survey of Nurses and Physicians. JMIR Hum Factors 10. https://doi.org/10.2196/46379
  • Boulos, L., Curran, J.A., Gallant, A., Wong, H., Johnson, C., Delahunty-Pike, A., Saxinger, L., Chu, D., Comeau, J., Flynn, T., Clegg, J., Dye, C., 2023. Effectiveness of face masks for reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2: A rapid systematic review. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. A Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 381. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0133
  • Gallant A, Harding A, Johnson C, Steenbeek A, Curran JA. (2023). Identifying H1N1 and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy or refusal among health care providers: a scoping review. JBI Evidence Synthesis. 21: 1-41.
  • Drake E, Weeks L, Van Manen M, Shin H, Wong H, Taylor D, McKibbon S, Curran J. (2023). The delivery of palliative and end-of-life care to adolescents and young adults living with cancer: A scoping review. Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology. 12(7): 1-12.
  • Squires JE, Graham I, Santos W, Hutchinson A, Backman C, Bergstrom A, Brehaut J, Brouwers M, Burton C, Candido L, Cassidy C, Chalmers C, Chapman H, Colquhoun H, Curran J et al. (2023). The
  • Implementation in Context (ICON) Framework: A meta-framework of context domains, attributes and features in healthcare. Health Research Policy and Systems. 21(81): 1-19.
  • Gallant A, Steenbeek A, Halperin S, Parsons Leigh J, Curran JA. (2023). Identifying and addressing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on school-based immunisation programmes in the Canadian Maritimes: a mixed methods study protocol. BMJ Open. 13(6): 1-10.
  • McCulloch H, Breneol S, Stewart SA, Magalhaes S, Somerville M, Sheriko J, Best S, Burgess S, Jeffers E, Standing MA, King S, Clegg J, Curran JA. (2022). Identifying children with medical complexity in administrative datasets in a Canadian context: study protocol. BMJ Open. 12(3): p.e057843.
  • Breneol S, Doucet S, McIsaac JL, Riveroll A, Cassidy C, Charlton P, McCulloch H, McKibbon S, Luke A, Splane J, Curran JA. (2022). Programs to support transition in community care for children with complex care needs: a scoping review. BMJ Open. 12(7): 1-12.
  • Cassidy C, Sim M, Somerville M, Crowther D, Sinclair D, Rose AE, Burgess S, Best S, Curran JA. (2022). Using a Learning Health System Framework to Examine COVID-19 Pandemic Planning and Response at a Canadian Health Centre. PLOS One. 17(9): 1-9.
  • Curran, JA, Breneol, S, Vine, J. (2020). Improving transitions in care for children with complex and medically fragile needs: a mixed methods study. BMC Pediatr. 20(1):219. doi: 10.1186/s12887-020-02117-6.
  • Richardson B, Falconer A, Shrestha J, Cassidy C, Campbell-Yeo M,  Curran J. (2020). Parent-targeted education regarding infant pain management delivered during the perinatal period: A scoping review. The Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing. 34(1): 56-65. doi: 10.1097/JPN.0000000000000439.
  • Curran JA, Gallant A, Zemek R, Newton A, Jabbour M, Chorney J, Murphy A, Hartling L, MacWilliams K, Plint A, MacPhee S, Bishop A, Campbell S. (2019). Discharge communication practices in paediatric emergency care: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. Systematic Review Journal. 8(83): 1-28.
  • Cassidy C, MacEachern L, Egar J, Best S, Foley L, Rowe MB, Curran JA. (2019). Barriers and enablers to implementing a high-dependency care model in pediatric care: A pre-implementation study. Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 34(4): 370-375.
  • Cassidy C, Steenbeek A, Langille D, Martin-Misener R, Curran J. (2019). Designing an intervention to improve sexual health service use among university undergraduate students: a mixed methods study guided by the behaviour change wheel. BMC Public Health. 19: 1734.