Eva Purkey

Eva has worked in family practice in a small northern community and in Kingston Community Health Centres prior to coming to Queen’s. She has worked in refugee communities on the Thai-Burmese border providing clinical care and education around women’s health and human rights as well as research capacity building for community-based healthcare organization. She has also worked briefly in Inuit communities in Quebec and Nunavut. She is passionate about working with people experiencing structural violence, and about examining and advocating to change the structures that inflict this violence including those within the healthcare system. Her research and clinical interests include global health and health equity; international health of “Last Mile” populations; health of equity-seeking groups within Canada; trauma-informed care and Equity-Oriented Care as health interventions.