Overview

Judith Lynam has an overriding interest in understanding the conditions that contribute to inequities in health and in exploring ways these can be addressed through practice and education. Over the past two decades she has worked in partnership with community based organizations and health professionals in an effort to make health care more responsive to the needs of different groups within communities.

Most recently, she has been instrumental in introducing social pediatrics as a solution to meet the health needs of Vancouver's most vulnerable children. She has worked in partnership with community groups and colleagues in medicine, nursing and health care administration to research the RICH-ER practice initiative. She is a founding leader of the Culture, Gender and Health Research Unit and has held a number of leadership positions in national and provincial organizations concerned with culture, health and diversity.

Publications

Using a historical genealogical approach to examine Ireland's health care system
Nursing Inquiry
Flynn, A.V. and Lynam, J.M.
DOI: 10.1111/nin.12319
2020

It takes a village: a realist synthesis of social pediatrics program
International Journal of Public Health
Tyler, I. and Lynam, J. and O?Campo, P. and Manson, H. and Lynch, M. and Dashti, B. and Turner, N. and Feller, A. and Ford-Jones, E.L. and Makin, S. and Loock, C.
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-018-1190-7
2019

Review: Meaningful support for lesbian and bisexual women navigating reproductive cancer care in Canada: An exploratory study
Journal of Research in Nursing
Lynam, M.J.
DOI: 10.1177/1744987116643199
2016

Engaging with communities to foster health: the experience of inner-city children and families with learning circles.
The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmières
Lynam, M.J. and Grant, E. and Staden, K.
2012

The social paediatrics initiative: a RICHER model of primary health care for at risk children and their families
BMC Pediatrics
Wong, S.T. and Lynam, M.J. and Khan, K.B. and Scott, L. and Loock, C.
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-12-158
2012

The RICHER social pediatrics model: fostering access and reducing inequities in children's health.
Healthcare quarterly (Toronto, Ont.)
Lynam, M.J. and Scott, L. and Loock, C. and Wong, S.T.
2011

Social context and youth health: Understanding and mitigating exclusion
Evidence-Based Public Health: Effectiveness and Efficiency
Judith Lynam, M.
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563623.003.07
2010

Social paediatrics: Creating organisational processes and practices to foster health care access for children 'at risk'
Journal of Research in Nursing
Lynam, M.J. and Loock, C. and Scott, L. and Wong, S.M. and Munroe, V. and Palmer, B.
DOI: 10.1177/1744987109360651
2010

Uptake of critical knowledge in nursing practice: Lessons learned from a knowledge translation study
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research
Anderson, J.M. and Browne, A.J. and Reimer-Kirkham, S. and Lynam, M.J. and Rodney, P. and Varcoe, C. and Wong, S. and Tan, E. and Smye, V. and McDonald, H. and Baumbusch, J. and Khan, K.B. and Reimer, J. and Peltonen, A. and Brar, A.
2010

Inequities in health and healthcare viewed through the ethical lens of critical social justice: Contextual knowledge for the global priorities ahead
Advances in Nursing Science
Anderson, J.M. and Rodney, P. and Reimer-Kirkham, S. and Browne, A.J. and Khan, K.B. and Lynam, M.J.
DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0b013e3181bd6955
2009

Cultural safety and the challenges of translating critically oriented knowledge in practice
Nursing Philosophy
Browne, A.J. and Varcoe, C. and Smye, V. and Reimer-Kirkham, S. and Lynam, M.J. and Wong, S.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-769X.2009.00406.x
2009

Critical inquiry and knowledge translation: Exploring compatibilities and tensions
Nursing Philosophy
Reimer-Kirkham, S. and Varcoe, C. and Browne, A.J. and Lynam, M.J. and Khan, K.B. and McDonald, H.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-769X.2009.00405.x
2009

Reflecting on issues of enacting a critical pedagogy in nursing
Journal of Transformative Education
Judith Lynam, M.
DOI: 10.1177/1541344609334871
2009

Culture, health, and inequalities: New paradigms, new practice imperatives
Journal of Research in Nursing
Lynam, M.J. and Loock, C. and Scott, L. and Khan, K.B.
DOI: 10.1177/1744987108088639
2008

Understanding marginalization as a social determinant of health
Critical Public Health
Lynam, M.J. and Cowley, S.
DOI: 10.1080/09581590601045907
2007

Re-thinking the complexities of 'culture': What might we learn from Bourdieu?: Feature
Nursing Inquiry
Lynam, M.J. and Browne, A.J. and Kirkham, S.R. and Anderson, J.M.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2007.00348.x
2007

Does discourse matter? Using critical inquiry to engage in knowledge development for practice
Primary Health Care Research and Development
Lynam, M.J.
DOI: 10.1017/S1463423607000072
2007

Continuing the dialogue: Postcolonial feminist scholarship and Bourdieu - Discourses of culture and points of connection
Nursing Inquiry
Anderson, J.M. and Reimer Kirkham, S. and Browne, A.J. and Lynam, M.J.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2007.00367.x
2007

Resisting vulnerability: The experiences of families who have kin in hospital - A feminist ethnography
International Journal of Nursing Studies
Perry, J. and Judith Lynam, M. and Anderson, J.M.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2005.03.003
2006

Health as a socially mediated process: Theoretical and practice imperatives emerging from research on health inequalities
Advances in Nursing Science
Lynam, M.J.
DOI: 10.1097/00012272-200501000-00004
2005

Parents' perspectives on decision making after antenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease
JOGNN - Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing
Rempel, G.R. and Cender, L.M. and Lynam, M.J. and Sandor, G.G. and Farquharson, D.
DOI: 10.1177/0884217503261092
2004

"Rewriting" cultural safety within the postcolonial and postnational feminist project: Toward new epistemologies of healing
Advances in Nursing Science
Anderson, J. and Perry, J. and Blue, C. and Browne, A. and Henderson, A. and Khan, K.B. and Kirkham, S.R. and Lynam, J. and Semeniuk, P. and Smye, V.
DOI: 10.1097/00012272-200307000-00005
2003

Rethinking cultural safety while waiting to do fieldwork: Methodological implications for nursing research
Research in Nursing and Health
Kirkham, S.R. and Smye, V. and Tang, S. and Anderson, J. and Blue, C. and Browne, A. and Coles, R. and Dyck, I. and Henderson, A. and Lynam, M.J. and Perry, J. and Semeniuk, P. and Shapera, L.
DOI: 10.1002/nur.10033
2002

Joint actions of parents and adolescents in health conversations
Qualitative Health Research
Young, R.A. and Lynam, M.J. and Valach, L. and Novak, H. and Brierton, I. and Christopher, A.
DOI: 10.1177/104973201129118920
2001

Exploring perinatal health in Indo-Canadian women.
The Canadian nurse
Lynam, M.J. and Gurm, B. and Dhari, R.
2000

Towards the creation of a culturally safe research environment
Health
Lynam, M.J. and Young, R.A.
DOI: 10.1177/136345930000400101
2000

Parent-adolescent health conversations as action: Theoretical and methodological issues
Psychology and Health
Young, R.A. and Lynam, M.J. and Valach, L. and Novak, H. and Brierton, I. and Christopher, A.
DOI: 10.1080/08870440008405587
2000

Health care professionals and women speaking: Constraints in everyday life and the management of chronic illness
Health
Anderson, J.M. and Dyck, I. and Lynam, J.
DOI: 10.1177/136345939700100103
1997

Mental health in aboriginal communities introduction taking back the wisdom: Moving forward to recovery and action
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
McCormick, R. and Vedan, R. and McNicoll, P. and Lynam, J.
DOI: 10.7870/cjcmh-1997-0001
1997

Family health-promotion projects: An action-theoretical perspective
Journal of Health Psychology
Valach, L. and Young, R.A. and Lynam, M.J.
DOI: 10.1177/135910539600100105
1996

Supporting one another: the nature of family work when a young adult has cancer
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Lynam, M.J.
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1995.22010116.x
1995

Women talking. Creating knowledge through difference in cross-cultural research
Women's Studies International Forum
Dyck, I. and Lynam, J.M. and Anderson, J.M.
DOI: 10.1016/0277-5395(95)80098-A
1995

Informal carers: a Marxist analysis of social, political, and economic forces underpinning the role.
ANS. Advances in nursing science
Bridges, J.M. and Lynam, M.J.
DOI: 10.1097/00012272-199303000-00006
1993

Towards the goal of providing culturally sensitive care: principles upon which to build nursing curricula
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Lynam, M.J.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1992.tb01869.x
1992

Taking culture into account: a challenging prospect for cardiovascular nursing.
Canadian journal of cardiovascular nursing = Journal canadien en soins infirmiers cardio-vasculaires
Lynam, M.J.
1991

Communication: a tool for the negotiation of independence in families with adolescents
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Lynam, M.J. and Tenn, L.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1989.tb01608.x
1989

Adolescent communication: understanding it's dynamics and fostering it's development.
Nursing papers. Perspectives en nursing
Lynam, M.J. and Tenn, L.
1986

Teenagers' rationales for their food behaviours: directives for teaching.
Nursing papers. Perspectives en nursing
Lynam, M.J.
1985

Support networks developed by immigrant women
Social Science and Medicine
Lynam, M.J.
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(85)90109-1
1985