Dr. Kathleen Leslie

Kathleen (Kate) Leslie is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Disciplines at Athabasca University and an Adjunct Professor at Western University. Dr. Leslie is a registered nurse and lawyer whose program of research focuses on the health workforce, professional regulation, scopes of practice, and health law and policy. She has secured over $1.4M in tri-council funding (CIHR and SSHRC) as the nominated principal investigator and over $1.2M in tri-council funding as a co-investigator.

Dr. Leslie is currently the principal investigator on a CIHR Team Grant on licensure reforms for internationally educated nurses and the CIHR-funded Health Workforce Evidence Support and Knowledge Mobilization Hub. Dr. Leslie co-led the Canadian team that undertook a global review of health practitioner regulation for the World Health Organization (WHO) and led the first Canadian team to receive a National Council of State Boards of Nursing Center for Regulatory Excellence Grant.

Read more about Dr. Leslie’s CIHR-funded Health Workforce Evidence Support and Knowledge Mobilization Hub.

Read more about Dr. Leslie’s research on licensure reforms for internationally educated nurses.

If you would like to learn more about Dr. Leslie’s current research program or are interested in getting involved, please reach out to kleslie@athabascau.ca.

Discover my research

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Research interests

• Health law and policy
• Professional regulation
• Scopes of practice
• Nursing jurisprudence
• Health systems
• Nursing ethics
• Qualitative research

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Educational credentials

• PhD (University of Toronto)
• JD (Western University)
• BScN (Western University)

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Professional affiliations

• Registered Nurse (College of Nurses of Ontario, College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta)
• Lawyer (Law Society of Ontario)

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