Katrina Plamondon is an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. She is a Canadian woman of Cree, Irish, Quebecois, German, Jewish ancestry whose heartstrings are tied to the Kootenay and Okanagan regions of British Columbia.

A 2020 Michael Smith Health Research Scholar, her program of research focuses on questions of how to advance equity action. Katrina’s clinical foundations are in critical care/emergency and street outreach. She completed a Master of Science in Community Health & Epidemiology in 2006 (University of Saskatchewan) and doctoral studies at the University of British Columbia under a Banting & Best Canada Graduate Scholarship, for which her research extended a decade of research and practice in knowledge translation with a focus on advancing health equity.

She plays a national leadership role in global health. She was the Principal Investigator for the multi-year Gathering Perspectives Studies that led to the creation of the equity-centred CCGHR Principles for Global Health Research (available here), named as a core element of implementing a commitment to equity in CIHR’s Framework for Action on Global Health Research (see details here). She leads national dialogue about equity and Canada’s role in global health research, with a special focus on issues of vaccine equity.

She sits on Canada’s National Scientific Advisory Committee on Global Health.