Dr. Fuchsia Howard PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing, UBC
Dr. Fuchsia Howard is a Registered Nurse and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia. In her research, she examines: 1) the health service needs of high-risk survivors of acute life-threatening illness, specifically, critical illness and cancer; and 2) the information and supportive care needs of people with endometriosis-related chronic pain. Dr. Howard promotes socially responsive scholarship, generating evidence of survivor perspectives and priorities to enhance the accessibility and quality of health services. Her research program includes an integrative knowledge translation and patient-oriented thread of co-designing with clinicians and patients, and she uses innovative and engaging ways of creating and sharing her findings. Most recently, Dr. Howard has worked with members of our Patient Advisory Council to share their stories of post-intensive care survivorship through photovoice. The overarching aim of her research is to generate patient- and family-perspective evidence of their health and disability challenges as the foundation for designing and evaluating patient-centred healthcare to address the long-term burden of illness.
Dr. Howard aims to work closely with our Patient Advisory Council to improve sepsis survivors' accessibility to post-sepsis wellbeing resources.
