Colleen Cameron
Senior Program Staff
Colleen has more than 35 years of experience in the area of community health and development, adult education and social justice initiatives. She has practiced and taught nursing and community health in Canada, Africa and the Middle East, while also engaging in overseas emergency famine relief projects. Colleen has lived and worked in Yemen, Ethiopia and Sudan. Her overseas experience includes working with Coady partner organizations such as the Association of Christian Lay Centres in Africa (ACLCA) with whom she developed a training team, curriculum materials and an evaluation process in Uganda and Nigeria. She has also worked with the Association for Social and Health Advancement (ASHA) in Kolkata, India, where she introduced the People Assessing Their Health (PATH) process to community groups to enable them to develop a community health impact assessment tool. She has also co-facilitated the Inaugural Institute for Gender and HIV/AIDS held in South Africa in association with the Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health. She has also conducted three workshops on gender and health for the faculty at the Kigali Health Institute, Kigali, Rwanda. In 2009 she introduced the PATH process and community driven health impact assessment to the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development in Accra, Ghana. In 2010 she introduced the PATH Process to the Rehabilitation and Development Agency in Sierra Leone. In 2011 Colleen initiated the first Community Driven Health Impact Assessment certificate.
Colleen divides her time between the Coady and the StFX Nursing Department. At the Coady, Colleen has designed and taught courses in Community-Based Development and Health, Gender and Development, Training of Trainers, Gender and Power, Leadership for Development and Gender and Health. Colleen is also involved with a multi year Community University Research Alliance funded Community Food Security Research in collaboration with the Department of Human Nutrition, St. Francis Xavier University and the Food Security Research Centre at Mount St. Vincent University.
Colleen is involved in local community development initiatives and community organizations. She is a co-chair of Voices Antigonish (focusing on local food security), the Antigonish Food Security Coalition, the Antigonish Poverty Reduction Coalition, and the Sustainable affordable housing society. She is also a local blueberry farmer and member of the Wild Blueberry Producers Association NS and the Federation of Agriculture NS.