In 2024, Dr. Bourgeault’s University of Ottawa Chair in Gender, Diversity and the Professions was renewed for another five years from 2024-2029.

In 2023, Dr. Bourgeault was awarded the Healthcare Management Forum Article of the Year by the Canadian College of Health Leaders for the article she published with colleagues entitled: The pathway from mental health, leaves of absence, and return to work of health professionals: Gender and leadership matter.  

In 2020, Dr. Bourgeault received CIHR funding for the project entitled, Assessing the Capacity of the Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce to Respond to COVID-19 as part of the Government of Canada and provincial partners support research addressing mental health impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians

In 2019, Dr. Bourgeault received a University Research Chair in Gender, Diversity and the Professions.

“The issue is not only women’s representation in leadership position in health and academic professions, but also how everyday inequities and incivilities they experience affects their sense of psychological health and safety in the workplace,” explains Professor Bourgeault. “We also need to explore other dimensions of inequity that women of color, Indigenous women and those living with various forms of disability disproportionately experience in the health and academic professions,” she adds.

In 2018, Dr. Bourgeault was recognized as one of the top Canadian Women in Global Health by the Canadian Society for International Health.

In 2017, Dr. Bourgeault received the University of Ottawa and Association of Professors at the University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research.

In 2016, Dr. Bourgeault was inducted into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences for her contributions to the promotion of health sciences.

Also in 2016, Dr. Bourgeault was awarded the Established Researcher Award with the Telfer School of Management.

She also received the Professor of the Year award from the Master of Health Administration Students’ Association.

In 2014, Dr. Bourgeault received the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health Chair in Gender, Work and Health Human Resources.

Also in 2014, Dr. Bourgeault received a Visiting Scholar Award from the University of Sydney for her work on health worker migration.