Dr Hope Bilinski

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, literature review, designed the project, collected data, input data, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft

position: Assistant professor

Hello! I am an Associate Professor and Associate Dean in the College of Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. My background includes close to three decades of nursing in rural acute care, long term care, and home care. My research interests include the health or rural populations, and more specifically the health of rural child populations. I am particularly interested in using mixed methods to explore the meaning of health for rural children, the health behaviors of this aggregate, and the development of health promotion programs that are tailored to rural child populations. I am also interested in interprofessional education, in particular the role of patients and families in IPE.

Donna Rennie

qualifications: PhD

contribution: supervised data collection, contributed to drafts

position: Professor

I teach rural and remote health to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Saskatchewan I am a researcher with rural and agricultural populations primarily assessng risk factors for respiratory health

Wendy Duggleby

qualifications: PhD

contribution: supervised data collection, contributed to drafts

position: Professor

Dr. Wendy Duggleby is Nursing Research Chair in Aging and Quality of Life at the Faculty of Nursing University of Alberta. Her area of research is psychosocial research with populations with advanced disease and palliative end of life care.