CYHRNet - Joan Bottorff

Fast Facts:

Name: Joan Bottorff, PhD, RN, FCAHS

Education: Nursing, Elementary Education, Educational Psychology

Affiliation: UBC-O

Titles: Professor and Chair in Health Promotion and Cancer Prevention, University of British Columbia Okanagan. Director, Centre for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention, University of British Columbia Okanagan. Co-Director, NEXUS.

CYHRNet Role: Co-Leader, Youth and Community Engagement

Website: Dr. Bottorff's Website

Email: joan.bottorff@ubc.ca

Priority Initiatives & Co-Leaders

CYHRNet strives to collaborate with other MSFHR networks to ensure a sustained focus on infants, children and youth. Network efforts have tended to focus on the following priority initiatives:

Transitions to Adulthood
- Co-Leader: Bonnie Leadbeater
Health and Wellbeing (focus on Mental Health)
- Co-Leader: Bonnie Leadbeater
Health Disparities
- Co-Leader: Jean-Paul Collet
Child and Youth Health Indicators related to Injury Prevention
- Co-Leader: Ian Pike
Ethics and Research with Children and Youth
- Co-Leader: Elizabeth Saewyc
Youth and Community Engagement
- Co-Leader: Joan Bottorff

Joan Bottorff, PhD, RN, FCAHS

CYHRNet Co-Leader, Youth and Community Engagement

Professor and Chair in Health Promotion and Cancer Prevention, University of British Columbia Okanagan.

Joan L. Bottorff is a Professor and a UBC Distinguished University Scholar in the Faculty of Health and Social Development, at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, in Kelowna, BC. The focus of her research is on health promotion in the context of cancer control. She is collaborating with teams on topics related to tobacco and marijuana use among adolescents, and is developing tobacco reduction interventions that are focused on pregnant women, and parenting men and women who smoke. Dr. Bottorff is Co-Director of the MSFHR funded interdisciplinary research team, NEXUS, focused on researching the social context of health behaviour, and an affiliate scientist with the BC Cancer Agency. As a CYHRNet Co-Leader, she is responsible for the Youth and Community Engagement initiative.

In the Media

"Teenagers claim they smoke cannabis to help them deal with medical problems like stress and depression" Kate Devlin, The Telegraph, April 22, 2009. [More info]

Selected Publications

Bottorff, J.L., et al. (2010). Young women's responses to smoking and breast cancer risk information. Health Education Research.
Bottorff, J. L., Carey, J., Mowatt, R., Varcoe, C., Johnson, J. L., Hutchinson, P., Sullivan, D., Williams, W., & Wardman, D. (2009). Bingo halls and smoking: Perspectives of Aboriginal women. Health and Place, 15, 1014-1021.
Bottorff, J. L., Robinson, C. A., Sullivan, K. M., Smith, M. L., (2009). Lung cancer patient approaches to continued family smoking. Oncology Nursing Forum. 36 (3), E126-132.
Bottorff, J.L., Johnson, J.L, Moffat, B.M., & Mulvogue, T. (2009). Relief-oriented use of marijuana by teens. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 4:7. [More info]
Bottorff, J. L., Radsma, J., Kelly, M., & Oliffe, J. (2009). New fathers' narratives of reducing and quitting smoking. Sociology of Health and Illness, 31(2), 185-200.