Susan Jack, RN, PhD is an Assistant Professor with the School of Nursing, McMaster University. Her clinical and research interests have focused on the delivery of health promotion programs and public health services to vulnerable populations, with a specific focus on public health nurse home visitation and the prevention of family violence. From 2004-2006 she was a CHSRF/CIHR Post Doctoral Fellow at the Offord Centre for Child Studies, supervised by Dr. Harriet MacMillan. Additional training in knowledge translation was also undertaken at the Knowledge Utilization Studies Program, University of Alberta.