Joy Louise Johnson (FCAHS) is the 10th President and Vice-Chancellor of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. A health scientist and researcher in gender and health, she became the first woman to be appointed Vice-President Research at Simon Fraser in 2014.
Academic work and life[edit]
Johnson graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Nursing from the University of Alberta in 1993.[2] She worked as a nurse at St. Paul's Hospital and other facilities before returning to graduate school.[2][3]
From 2003 to 2007, she was the University of British Columbia (UBC) Unit Director, Centre for Addictions Research of BC.[2] From 2008 to 2014, she was the Scientific Director for the Institute of Gender and Health of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.[4] Johnson held a professorship in the University of British Columbia, School of Nursing, with a focus on health promotion and health behaviour change.[5] Johnson served on the boards of the Women's Health Research Institute, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and Innovate BC.
In 2014, she became Simon Fraser University's first female Vice President of Research,[6] succeeding Mario Pinto.[7] In 2020, she was appointed to succeed Andrew Petter as President of the university.[8]
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