qualifications: DNSc
contribution: designed the project, original concept
position: Professor
Canada
Judith Kulig is a Professor in the Nursing Program within the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Lethbridge, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. She has devoted her research program to understanding rural health issues specifically addressing unique groups who live in rural areas, nursing practice in rural and remote Canada and community resiliency in rural communities. Judith is past Chair of the Canadian Rural Health Research Society for which she was one of the founding members.
qualifications: PhD
position: Professor and Division Head
Canada
I am interested in the following: Resiliency in the rural sector. Rural elderly. Rural youth violence. Clinical treatment of first Nations' people. Rural suicide.
qualifications: PhD
position: Associate Professor
Ruth's research interests include: family research, end-of-life care, dealing with loss and trauma, public health, and water and health. She teaches a graduate course in advanced qualitative research methodology.
Women's wellbeing and Niska (goose) Harvesting in subarctic Ontario, Canada
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COVID-19 in endangered Indigenous groups from the Amazonia, Ecuador
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Experiences of rural Australian men with online SMART Recovery mutual-help groups
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Attraction and retention of nurses in rural, remote and isolated locations
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11th Biennial Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC) 2024, 2–6 December 2024, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, Australia
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Te Tāreitanga: Evolving understanding of health workforce research, 9 December 2024, Dunedin, NZ, and online
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4th International Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Conference 2025, 16–19 June 2025, Adelaide Convention Centre, Kaurna Country, Australia
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