Highs & Lows: About the Editors

Lorraine Greaves, PhD, is a writer, educator and researcher who has worked on issues relating to girls’ and women’s health, substance use and addiction, and violence against women, for 25 years, both in Canada and abroad. She is a medical sociologist with degrees from Canada and Australia. She has authored numerous books, articles, chapters and reports on gender, women’s health, addiction, smoking, tobacco policy, and smoking among vulnerable groups, pregnant women and people with low incomes. She has also written extensively on integrating sex, gender and diversity into health research, and on developing new processes for involving a wider range of participants in research. Lorraine is internationally known for her work on women and smoking; her first book, Smoke Screen: Women’s Smoking and Social Control, was the winner of the 1997 Laura Jamieson Prize awarded by the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women.

Lorraine is president of the International Network of Women Against Tobacco, a research and advocacy group that aims to reduce global tobacco use among women. She has received numerous awards for her contributions, including the Augusta-Stowe Gullen award, the Outstanding Ontario Achievement Award, a Woman of Distinction Award from the Vancouver YWCA and an honorary doctorate. She is executive director of the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health and Senior Advisor, Health Policy and Surveillance at B.C. Women’s Hospital. She is a lead mentor on impart, a program funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), which trains future researchers in issues relating to gender, women and addiction, and is a member of icebergs, a research team on gender and lung health.

Nancy Poole, MA, PhD candidate, has been involved for 25 years as a leader in Canadian advocacy, research, policy and practice relating to women and substance use. She applies evidence and passion to this work, helping a range of governments and organizations at municipal, provincial and national levels to integrate awareness and information on women, gender and addiction issues into policy and program development. She is in the forefront of developing innovative knowledge translation processes in women and substance use issues, both in face-to-face settings and in virtual learning communities. She is completing a doctorate with the University of South Australia, focusing on virtual knowledge translation in women’s health and substance use, and has a CIHR fellowship with the impart program, a training program in gender, women and addiction.

Nancy is involved in numerous research projects and networks on policy and service provision for mothers with substance use problems, on smoking interventions tailored for women, and on the prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). She is particularly interested in the development of integrated, women-centred care for trauma, mental health and substance use issues. Nancy is the lead of ActNow B.C. Healthy Choices in Pregnancy, a health promotion initiative engaging health providers in discussing alcohol and tobacco use with women; and is a leader with the Canada Northwest FASD Research Network and the Women’s Health Research Network of B.C. She is a research associate with the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, and acts as the provincial research consultant on women’s substance use, for B.C. Women’s Hospital.

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