Nadine s research interests are at the intersection of population health, health services and geographic information science.
She landed in health research serendipitously based on a research collaboration with Dr. Michael Hayes a fellow population health researcher. Since 2001, she has worked on a variety of projects at the intersection of GIScience and health research. These include development of ultra-high resolution urban data sets that allow researchers to better understand the links between deprivation and population health by accounting for variables other than income and education (e.g. home assessment value and taxation rates). Dr. Schuurman is also involved in building decision frameworks for location of health services. These modelling tools identify the populations served by regional hubs and tertiary centres as well as regional age/sex proportions. Another health services project involves using Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) to evaluate optimal locations for adding or subtracting maternity care services in rural British Columbia.