Pat Armstrong


Pat Armstrong is a Canadian sociologist and Distinguished Research Professor at York University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Armstrong has served as a Chair for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Health Services and Nursing Research and the Department of Sociology at York University.

Career

In 2007, Armstrong was awarded the Ontario Health Coalition’s Ethel Meade Award for Excellence in Research in the Public Interest.
While at York University, Armstrong served as Chair of the Department of Sociology. She also helped found the National Network on Environments and Women's Health, where she served as its Director, before earning the title of Chair of Women and Health Care Reform. She also worked as a Chair for the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Health Services and Nursing Research and as an Research Associate for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. In 2010, Armstrong was named a York University Distinguished Research Professor and in 2011 was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
In 2017, Armstrong was awarded York University's Faculty of Graduate Studies Postdoctoral Supervisor of the Year Award. As a Distinguished Research Professor, Armstrong helped begin a project called "Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices" which searched for solutions to problems residents and care providers faced in long-term care. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Major Collaborative Research Initiatives program granted the research group $2.5 million in funding. The following year she was a recipient of the YWCA Toronto Women of Distinction.

Publications

List of publications:
Armstrong is married to Dr. Hugh Armstrong, a professor at Carleton University.