Health Workforce

As the CIHR Chair in Health Human Resources from which she led the development of the Canadian Health Workforce Network, she has advanced research on health workforce data for and planning, acknowledging health workers scopes of practice which led to her co-leadership of the Team Primary Care initiative. Dr. Bourgeault has also led the Healthy Professional Worker Partnership, which looks at the workplace mental health experiences of professional workers and she has contributed to a research program on the often overlooked mental health and substance use health workforce with colleagues and community partners.

Healthy Professional Work

SSHRC-CRSH - Partnership for Success 2020: Healthy Professional/Knowledge Workers

Key Publications:

Corrente, M., Park, J., Akuamoah-Boateng, H., Atanackovic, J., & Bourgeault, I. L. (2024). Work & life stress experienced by professional workers during the pandemic: a gender-based analysis. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 1441.

Corrente, M., Myles S., Atanackovic J., Ben Ahmed H., Benoit C., McMillan K., Price S., Neiterman, E., Slofstra K., & Bourgeault, I.L. (2024) Even if you build it, they may not come: Challenges in the uptake of workplace mental health toolkits. BMC Public Health, 24, 2770.

Bourgeault, I. L., Atanackovic, J., McMillan, K., Akuamoah-Boateng, H., & Simkin, S. (2022). The pathway from mental health, leaves of absence, and return to work of health professionals: Gender and leadership matter. Healthcare Management Forum, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 199-206.
Bourgeault, I., Park, J., Kohen, Atanackovic, J., James, Y. (2021) A Gendered Analysis of Work, Stress and Mental Health, Among Professional and Non-Professional Workers. Professions and Professionalism. 11(2).
Covell, C.L., Sands, S.R., Ingraham, K. M. Lavoie-Tremblay, S. Price, C. Reichert & Bourgeault, I. (2020) Mapping the peer-reviewed literature on accommodating nurses’ return to work after leaves of absence for mental health issues: a scoping review. Human Resources for Health 18, 36, 1-7.

Selected Presentations:

Bourgeault, I.L. Psychological Health & Safety of Academic Work, CAUT Forum for Senior Grievance Officers, December 8, 2018.
Bourgeault, I.L., (2018) Healthy Professional Knowledge Workers: Examining the Gendered Nature of Mental Health Issues, Leaves of Absence and Return to Work Experiences from a Comparative Perspective. International Sociology Association Congress, Toronto, July.

Teamwork

Key Publications:

Atanackovic, J., Corrente, M., Myles, S., Eddine Ben-Ahmed, H., Urdaneta, K., Tello, K., ... & Bourgeault, I. L. (2024, September). Cultivating a psychological health and safety culture for interprofessional primary care teams through a co-created evidence-informed toolkit. In Healthcare Management Forum (Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 334-339). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.

Bourgeault, I.L. & Oandasan, I. (Eds.) (2024) Guest editors of special issue of Healthcare Management Forum on Team Primary Care: Training for Transformation.

Martin-Misener, R., Donald, F., Rayner, J., Carter, N., Kilpatrick, K., Ziegler, E., Bourgeault, I. and Bryant-Lukosius, D. (2024). Factors influencing nurse practitioner panel size in team-based primary care: a qualitative case study. BMC Primary Care, 25(1), p.304.

Bourgeault, I.L., Bond, C., Mahrer-Imhof, R., Budde, H., Rechel, B., & Maier, C. (2022) Caring for people with acute conditions: transitional care, relocation of care and new division of work. In Claudia Maier, Matthias Wismar & Marieke Kroezen (Eds.), Improving primary and chronic care: skill mix innovations and implementation. World Health Organization, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.

Bourgeault, I. L. (2022). Professions Allied to Medicine. Key Concepts in Medical Sociology, 282-287). London: Sage.

Bourgeault, I.L. & Merritt, K. (2015) Deploying Health Human Resources: Scopes of Practice, Skill-Mix and Shifting Tasks in the Provision of Health Care. In Kuhlmann, E., Blank, R.H., Bourgeault, I.L. & Wendt, C. The Palgrave International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Governance: Palgrave.

Selected Presentations:

Bourgeault, I.L. The Impact of Changes in Scopes of Practice in Canada, OECD Workshop on Skills Mix and Scopes of Practice, Paris, June, 2016.
Bourgeault, I.L. Team-Based Models of Care: Impact on Patients, Providers & Health Systems. FPT Committee on Health Workforce Workshop on Team-Based Models of Care, Ottawa, Feb., 2015

Data & Planning

Pan Canadian Health Human Resources Knowledge Exchange Network, CIHR Network Catalyst Grant, 2011-2015

Key Publications:

Crown, N., Bourgeault, I., & Austin, Z. (2024). Health human resources planning in Canada—Part II: Its importance for pharmacy in Canada. Canadian Pharmacists Journal/Revue des Pharmaciens du Canada, 157(3), 116-122.

Ladak, Z., Akuamoah-Boateng, H., Damba, C., Frohlich, R., Hall, S.A., Ikeh, J., Khalikova, R., Simkin, S., Trainor, R., Yu, C. and Bourgeault, I.L. (2024). Engagement with partners is a leading practice in health workforce planning: What health leaders need to know. In Healthcare Management Forum (Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 377-383). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.

Walton Roberts, M., & Bourgeault, I.L. (2024) Health workforce data needed to minimize inequities associated with health-worker migration. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 102(2), 117.

Ben-Ahmed, H. E., & Bourgeault, I. L. (2023). Sustaining the Canadian Nursing Workforce: Targeted Evidence-Based Reactive Solutions in Response to the Ongoing Crisis. Nursing Leadership (1910-622X), 35(4), 14-29.

Simkin, S., Chamberland-Rowe, C., Damba, C., Sava, N., Lim, T., & Bourgeault, I. L. (2023, January). Implementing leading practices in regional-level primary care workforce planning: Lessons learned in Toronto. In Healthcare Management Forum (Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 15-20).

Bourgeault, I.L. (2021) A path to improved health workforce planning, policy and management in Canada. The School of Public Policy Publications, 14:39 December.

Bourgeault, I. L. (2021). Vulnerabilities in the Nursing Workforce in Canada: The Anatomy and Physiology of Nursing Workforce Challenges and Potential Solutions for Better Planning, Policy and Management. Nursing Leadership (1910-622X), 34(4).

Bourgeault, I., Simkin, S., & Chamberland-Rowe, C. (2019). Poor health workforce planning is costly, risky and inequitable. CMAJ, 191(42), E1147-E1148. DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.191241

Leslie, K., Demers, C., Steinecke, R., & Bourgeault, I. L. (2022). Pan-Canadian Registration and Licensure of Health Professionals: A Path Forward Emerging from a Best Brains Exchange Policy Dialogue. Healthcare Policy, 18(1), 17.

Bourgeault, I.L., Chamberland-Rowe, C., & Simkin, S. (2021) Co-developing an Integrated Primary Care Workforce Plan at the Regional Level: An Introductory Overview and Commentary. Human Resources for Health
Bourgeault, I.L., Claudia B. Maier, Marjolein Dieleman, Jane Ball, Adrien MacKenzie, Susan Nancarrow, Gustavo Nigenda, Mohsin Sidat. (2020) The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to develop more sustainable health workforces Human Resources for Health. 18:83
Hedden, L., Barer, M., McGrail, K., Law, M., & Bourgeault, I.L. (2017). Is increasing physician supply the key to solving access/provision challenges? A cautionary tale from British Columbia. Health Affairs, 36(11).

Selected Presentations:

Bourgeault, I.L., (2019) Collecting Health Workforce Data for Planning is in the Public Interest, Professional Standards Authority Conference, London, United Kingdom, March 7.
Bourgeault, I.L., Demers, C., Chamberland, C., & Simkin, S. (2017) Core Competencies of the Human Resources for Health Field: Mapping Skills in Policy, Planning and Management. Fourth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, Dublin, Ireland.
Bourgeault, I.L. Can We Learn from Other Countries? Can Other Countries Learn from Us? Centre for Health Services and Policy Research Annual Conference, Vancouver April, 2016

Mental Health Workforce

Key Publications:

Bartram, M., Leslie, K., Atanackovic, J., Tulk, C., Chamberland-Rowe, C., & Bourgeault, I. L. (2023, January). Out from the shadows: What health leaders should do to advance the mental health and substance use health workforce. In Healthcare Management Forum (Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 42-48).

Tulk, C., Bartram, M., Leslie, K., Atanackovic, J., Chamberland-Rowe, C., & Bourgeault, I. L. (2023). The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and substance use health (MHSUH) workforce in Canada: a mixed methods study. Human Resources for Health, 21(1), 9.

Leslie, K., Bartram, M., Atanackovic, J., Chamberland-Rowe, C., Tulk, C., & Bourgeault, I. L. (2022). Enhancing the capacity of the mental health and substance use health workforce to meet population needs: insights from a facilitated virtual policy dialogue. Health research policy and systems, 20(1), 1-12.

Selected Presentations:

Other Publications

Key Publications:

Coates, A., Mihailescu, M., & Bourgeault, I. (2024) Emergency responses to a health workforce under pressure: Systemic lessons learned from Canadian responses to the first wave of the pandemic. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 39:906–916.

Leslie, K., Bourgeault, I.L., Carlton, A.L., Balasubramanian, M., Mirshahi, R., Short, S.D., Carè, J., Cometto, G. and Lin, V., (2023). Design, delivery and effectiveness of health practitioner regulation systems: an integrative review. Human Resources for Health, 21(1), pp.1-31.

Coates, A., Fuad, A. O., Hodgson, A., & Bourgeault, I. L. (2021). Health workforce strategies in response to major health events: a rapid scoping review with lessons learned for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Human resources for health, 19(1), 1-18.

Leslie, K., Moore, J., Robertson, C., Bilton, D., Hirschkorn, K., Langelier, M. H., & Bourgeault, I. L. (2021). Regulating health professional scopes of practice: comparing institutional arrangements and approaches in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK. Human Resources for Health, 19(1), 1-12.

Best, A., Berland, A., Greenhalgh, T., Bourgeault, I.L., Saul, J., & Barker, B. (2018) Networks as systems: A case study of the World Health Organisation’s Global Health Workforce Alliance. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 32, 1, 9-24.

Bourgeault, I., & Mulvale, G. (2006) Collaborative health care teams in Canada and the U.S.: Confronting the structural embeddedness of medical dominance. Special Issue of Health Sociology Review on Medical Dominance (invited). 15(5) December, 481-495.