Nicole Prestley

Nicole is the Manager, Research + Knowledge Translation at the Women’s Health Research Institute. Nicole has worked as health care research facilitator and patient partner liaison since 2006. She is passionate about engaging patients in the research and information sharing (knowledge dissemination) processes. Professionally, she is dedicated to accelerating the access to and use of evidence-based information for patient, community, and other knowledge user, audiences. Nicole has formal training from the Knowledge Translation Program at St. Michael’s Hospital (Dr. Sharon Straus) and the University of Toronto/SickKids Hospital (Dr. Melanie Barwick).

The Women’s Health Research Institute would like to acknowledge that we are uninvited guests on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lo, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations.

As a provincial research institute committed to improving the health outcomes of women, including those across the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum, we recognize our responsibility in the collective effort towards establishing culturally safe health care systems and services that address health inequities among Indigenous peoples, especially Indigenous women, girls, and Two-spirit peoples.

We encourage all people involved in research to read both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action and the In Plain Sight Report, and reflect on ways we can incorporate the recommendations into our work. As we gather in spaces together, we encourage you to reflect on your positionality on these lands and your personal commitments to reconciliation.

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