Pammla Petrucka RN, BScN, MN, PhD

Dr. Pammla is an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing, Regina Site. She holds a BScN and MN from the U of S, PhD from the U of A, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Indigenous People’s Health Research Centre. She is a research faculty member with the Saskatchewan Population Health Evaluation and Research Unit.

She is currently involved in research projects in Canada, the Caribbean, and Africa. Her work in the Caribbean is supported by International Development Research Centre and focuses on technology and nursing in development (ICT4D) in five Caribbean countries with emphasis on improving quality of care and access to information (K4D). Presently, she leads/co-leads various community based research projects with two Aboriginal groups in Saskatchewan, most of which are funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, include community partners in the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority, and Standing Buffalo First Nations. In addition, she is supported by the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation to consider the unique and pressing needs of Aboriginal and rural people with Chronic Kidney Diseases. Her work in Kenya involves pregnant and post-partum women in Kibera (a large slum area) who are receiving Anti-retrovirals is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Foundation.

She received the Jackie McCleer Fellowship from 2007 to 2009 from the Association of Commonwealth Universities to further her work in Kenya and Tanzania to consider opportunities for ICT4D in slum areas of Kibera and Arusha, the 2008 Canadian Association of Nursing Research Outstanding New Researcher Award, and the 2008 University of Regina Alumni Award for Humanitarian Services.