Broadly speaking, she is a health geographer who studies models of health service delivery for older adults in rural and small town environments. Additionally, she conducts research on the healthy cities and healthy communities’ movements, the social determinants of health and health sector restructuring and the needs of vulnerable populations such as socially isolated individuals, home care clients, palliative care clients and stroke survivors. Her research supports the use of mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) and has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and World Health Organization.