Canada Research Chair in Comparative Health Labour Policy
Associate Professor, Health, Aging and Society
Associate Professor, Sociology
Member, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault holds the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Health Labour Policy, which she took up in April 2004 following the early completion of her CIHR New Investigator Award. The focus of her CRC - a comparative examination of the migration of health care providers into and out of Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Australia - evolves out of her CIHR study of the impact of gender and location on human resources decision-making in key health care sectors of maternity, primary and mental health care, in Canada and the U.S. Bourgeault has published on the professionalization process, and relations between health professions, organizations and the state in Canada and the U.S., in both national and international journals. She is a member of the National Steering Committee on Rural and Remote Women's Health and of the Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research. Her current research program focuses mainly on comparative research on health occupations, but she is also involved in research on rural health care issues, with emphasis on women's health and health care, and health care providers' views of complementary and alternative medicine.  Bourgeault co-ordinates the first year introduction to health studies course as well as courses on the social organization of health care at both the undergraduate and graduate level in the Department of Sociology.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Social and political approaches to health and health care
• Health professions/Human resources (Medicine, Nursing & Midwifery)
• Health politics and policy
• Women's health and health care
• Primary care, maternity care, mental health care
• Complementary and alternative health care
• Rural health and health care
• Qualitative research methods
• Migration of health care providers

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Bourgeault , I.L. (2006)  Push! The Struggle to Integrate Midwifery in Ontario. McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Bourgeault, I.L. (2005). Gendered professionalization strategies & the rationalization of health care: midwifery, nurse practitioners, and hospital nurse staffing in Ontario, Canada. Knowledge, Work and Society, 3(1).

Hirschkorn, K., & Bourgeault, I.L. (2005). A Comparative Conceptual Framework of Mainstream Health Care Providers’ Behaviours Regarding Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Social Science and Medicine, 61, 157-170.

Bourgeault IL, Benoit C, Davis-Floyd R. (Eds.) (2004) Reconceiving Midwifery.  McGill-Queen's University Press.

Light, D., & Bourgeault, I.L. (2004) Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, “The Current State of Health and Health Care in the U. S.: Origins and Dynamics.”

Bourgeault, I.L., Lindsay, S. Mykahalovskiy, E. Armstrong, P., Armstrong, H., Choiniere, J., Lexchin, J., Peters, S., & White, J. (2004) At first you will not succeed: negotiating care in the context of health reform. Research in the Sociology of Health Care, 22, 261-276.

Adams, T., & Bourgeault, I.L. (2003) Feminism and Female Health Professions. Women’s Health, 38(4), 73-90.

Bourgeault IL, Armstrong P, Armstrong H, Choiniere J, Lexchin J, Mykhalovskiy E, Peters S, White J. The everyday experiences of implicit rationing: comparing the voices of nurses in California and British Columbia. Sociology of Health and Illness 2001;23(5):633-653.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

• Sociology of Occupations and Professions
• Sociology of Health and Health Care
• Introduction to Health Studies