Tel: 778.782.5182
Fax: 778.782.5288
Office: Harbour Centre Room 3275
Biography:
Dr. Olena Hankivsky (Associate Professor) B.A.
(Toronto), M.A. PhD (Western Ontario) specializes
in public policy and political theory and has
a particular interest in gender and social and
health policy.
Dr. Hankivsky is the Co-Director of the Institute
for Critical Studies in Gender and Health at Simon
Fraser University and is Co-Leader of the BC’s
Women’s Health Research Network, funded
by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.
She is the author of Social Policy and the Ethic
of Care (2004, University of British Columbia
Press), co-editor of Women’s Health in Canada:
Critical Perspectives on Theory and Policy (forthcoming,
University of Toronto Press) and co-author of
The Dome of Silence: Sexual Harassment and Abuse
in Sport (2000, Fernwood & Zed Publications).
Dr. Hankivsky’s research has been published
in journals such as Journal of Health and Social
Policy, Critical Social Policy, International
Journal of Health Services, Canadian Public Policy
and Journal of Psychology, Public Policy and Law.
She has held various academic appointments at
the University of Western Ontario and the University
of British Columbia, including a SSHRC Post-Doctoral
Fellowship in the Department of Political Science
at the University of British Columbia. She is
also a research associate at the Canadian Centre
for Policy Alternatives.
