The Editors

Dr. Ardene Robinson Vollman is a graduate of the Universities of Saskatchewan (BScN, 1978) and Ottawa (MA, 1985; PhD, 1990) and is Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Calgary, in the Cumming School of Medicine (Department of Community Health Sciences). Dr. Vollman’s nursing career has comprised a range of practice settings, including public health nursing administration in a rural setting. As an educator, she has taught in graduate and undergraduate programs in nursing and community health sciences, supervising many masters and doctoral students over the years. Her research interests are varied, but generally focus on health promotion, evaluation, and vulnerable populations. In a volunteer capacity, Ardene has been President of the Alberta Public Health Association (APHA) and is an honourary life member of that group, secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Consortium of Health Promotion Research (CCHPR), and Chair of the University of Calgary Health Promotion Research Group (HPRG). She has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), and on the Conduct Committee at the College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CARNA). Most recently, she was Interim Scientific Director of the fledgling Primary Health Care Strategic Clinical Network of Alberta Health Services (AHS). At present, Dr. Vollman works as a consultant in public health, health promotion, and program evaluation. She has been co-editor of Canadian Community as Partner: Multidisciplinary Theory and Practice, a tool for community-based practitioners, for all 5 editions of the book.

Dr. Suzanne Jackson is Associate Professor Emerita at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) at the University of Toronto (UofT) and still active in the field of health promotion, public health, and global health. She co-leads the WHO Collaborating Centre in Health Promotion at UofT, and from 2001 to 2009 she was the Director of the Centre for Health Promotion at the UofT. She was Editor-in-Chief of the Global Health Promotion journal (2010-2019), a quarterly peer-reviewed public health journal that covers health promotion and health education, and Chair of the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) Board of Directors (2017-2018). She taught courses at the Master’s level in health promotion and global health; her specialty is in participatory planning, evaluation, and research. She has worked on community-based research with the Arctic Institute of Community-Based Research in the Yukon and with community arts for homeless youth in Toronto (with SKETCH). In an evaluation project called “Healthy By Design” with the Healthier Cities Hub at DLSPH, Suzanne worked closely with community organizations to evaluate an intervention to engage community residents in two Tower neighbourhoods in Toronto in designing the space around their apartment buildings. More recently she worked on exploring the role of community engagement in responding to emergency situations like COVID-19 in six neighbourhoods in Toronto. Dr. Jackson has influenced mental health promotion practice in Ontario through co-authoring guides with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She has over 30 publications, 12 book chapters and has been an invited speaker in many countries, including UK, Germany, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Brazil, and Jamaica. She joined as a co-editor of Canadian Community as Partner: Multidisciplinary Theory and Practice for the 5th edition of the book.