RECOGNITION
Awards and Honours
Presidents Chair award 2023
Prestigious awards put refugee mental health in spotlight
The President’s Chair recognizes and celebrates the most outstanding scholars, and it is the highest honour $40,000/5 years. Read more
Michael Smith Health Research (MSHR) BC Scholar award
$90,000 a year over the next five years to develop and conduct an evaluation of existing mental health services and supports for refugees in BC. Read more
2020 Award of Excellence in Advancing Nursing Knowledge & Research
The Association of Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of BC (NNPBC)
2022Â HSD Early Career Research AwardÂ
2012-2020
- 2019 Emerald Publishing Literati Award for Outstanding Paper (Doctoral thesis). Exploring community capacity: Karen refugee women’s mental health in International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, (4), 244-256. doi:10.1108/IJHRH-02-2018-002
- 2013 Sex and Gender Institute, Montreal, QC, $1,000 (IMPART Scholarship)
- 2012 Liu Scholar Institute for Global Issues, UBC, $3,000 (Ph.D.).
2005-2010
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2010-12 IMPART training fellowship December 1, 2010-January 1, 2012 award, $21,000 a strategic training program in Gender, Women & Addictions research, funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research Strategic Training Initiative (STIR), (CIHR).
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2009 Travel award received by BC Mental Health and Addictions Research Network, $1,000.
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2008 The University Graduate Fellowship, University of British Columbia award, $7,000 (Ph.D.).
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2008 The Pacific Century Graduate Scholarship $10,000 (Ph.D.).
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2005 Katherine McMillan Discretionary Fund, $1,300, research grant award for master’s thesis.
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Monthly newsletter for the Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health’s staff and faculty and student affiliates: Dr. Nancy Clark featured research: Exploring the Experiences of InnerCity Health Care and Social Service Providers During the Opioid Epidemic and COVID-19 Pandemic (August 2021)
VIDEOS AND TV
Chek News: Interview and Report on Racism/Effects on Racism on Health Dr. Nancy Clark.
PODCASTS
Clark, N., July 4, 2020: Nancy Clark and Dan Hiebert appear on the Global Migration Podcast.
https://migration.ubc.ca/programmes-initiatives/podcast/ Season 1, Episode 4.
Dan Hiebert (Geography / UBC Migration) explores the refugee and settlement experience with Saleem Spindari, Senior Manager of Refugees and Migrant Workers Programs at MOSAIC and Dr. Nancy Clark (School of Nursing at the University of Victoria / UBC Migration). How is COVID-19 creating further obstacles for those who work in and rely on the settlement sector?