
Dr. Juanita Bacsu PhD
Research Associate (Thompson Rivers University)Dr. Juanita-Dawne Bacsu is a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Nursing and Population Health and an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at Thompson Rivers University. Dr. Bacsu has been a Research Associate with SPHERU since 2009 and a board member with the Canadian Rural Health Research Society since 2011. Prior to this, she was a senior communications manager for the provincial government, a television segment host, and co-owned a family medicine clinic. Her research interests include rural aging, stigma, dementia, cognitive health promotion, social media/infodemiology, and health policy.
Research Area(s)
- Rural and remote health
- Dementia
- Cognitive health promotion
- Aging and health
- Population health
- Community based-research methods