Juanita-Dawne Bacsu

Dr. Juanita-Dawne Bacsu is a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Nursing and Population Health, the founding director of the Population Health and Aging Rural Research (PHARR, https://pharr.trubox.ca/) Centre, and an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at Thompson Rivers University. She is the co-lead of the Engagement of People with Lived Experience of Dementia (EPLED) Program with the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging. Dr. Bacsu’s research focuses on reducing dementia-related stigma and improving the health equity of rural older adults living with dementia. Her research interests include dementia, stigma, cognitive health promotion, rural health, age-friendly environments, and health policy.