patarmst


Pat Armstrong

Photo of Pat Armstrong

Department of Sociology

Professor Emeritus
Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology

Email: patarmst@yorku.ca
Primary website: Re-imagining Long-term Residential Care

Media Requests Welcome


Pat Armstrong held a Canada Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institute of Health Research Chair in Health Services and is a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

More...

Focusing on the fields of social policy, women, work and health and social services, she has published widely, co-authoring and co-editing books such as Wash, Wear and Care: Clothes and Laundry in Nursing Homes; The Privatization of Care: The Case of Nursing Homes; Creative Team Work: Developing Rpaid; Site-Switching Ethnography; Troubling Care: Critical Perspectives on Research and Practices; Shaping Academe for the Public Good; Thinking Women and Health Care Reform in Canada; Women’s Health: Intersections of Research, Policy and Practice; They Deserve Better: the Long-term Care Experience in Canada and Scandinavia; A Place to Call Home: Long-term Care in Canada; Critical to Care: The Invisible Women in Health Services and Wasting Away; and The Undermining of Canadian Health Care, as well as multiple journal articles and book chapters.

Dr. Armstrong was Chair of Women and Health Care Reform, a group funded for more than a decade by Health Canada, acting director of the National Network for Environments and Women’s Health, co-director at York of the Ontario Training Centre, a member of the Board for the York Institute for Health Research and has served as both Chair of the Department of Sociology at York and Director of the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. She is also a member of the Canadian Health Coalition and Centre for Policy Alternatives board. In addition, she has served as an expert witness in more than a dozen cases, heard before bodies ranging from the Federal Court to federal Human Rights Tribunals on issues related to women’s healthcare work and pay equity. She has been a co-investigator and principal investigator on many grants, primarily focused on women’s work, health and health care. Funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, she was the Principal Investigator on the 10-year "Reimagining Long-term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices" and the CIHR-funded "Healthy Aging in Residential Places" and is currently on two SSHRC-funded projects.

Degrees

Ph.D., Sociology, Carleton University
M.A., Canadian Studies, Carleton University
B.A., Sociology, University of Toronto

Appointments

Faculty of Health

Community Contributions

Pat Armstrong currently serves on the Technical Committee of the Health Standards Organization, developing proposals for long-term care standards. She is a member of the Congregate Care Group, a sub-group of the Ontario Science Table and a Board member of the Canadian Health Coalition and of the Members Council of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Research Interests

Health , Women, Work, Health Care, Feminist Political Economy