Research Interests: how characteristics of healthcare organizations, their leaders, and staff contribute to their ability to work collaboratively to implement change and improve the quality and integration of care
Dr. Jenna M. Evans is a Staff Scientist in the Enhanced Program Evaluation Unit at Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) and a Certified Health Executive with the Canadian College of Health Leaders. She is interested in how characteristics of healthcare organizations, their leaders, and staff contribute to their ability to work collaboratively to implement change and improve the quality and integration of care. In particular, she enjoys exploring social and psychological factors influencing performance using qualitative, survey and mixed methods research.
Dr. Evans holds a Bachelor of Health Studies with Honours in Health Management from York University (2008) and a PhD in Health Services Research from the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto (2014). Her doctoral work, entitled ‘Health Systems Integration: Competing or Shared Mental Models?’ was funded by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and the Health System Performance Research Network, and received an Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in 2015 from the European Foundation for Management Development and Emerald Group Publishing.