Maureen Cava

Director
Bachelor of Science (Nursing) 1977

Maureen Cava’s nursing career has developed over 40 plus years, 30 of which was in public health practice in Ontario. She retired in 2018 from Toronto Public Health as the Manager of Professional Development and Education. She holds an undergraduate in Nursing from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and a graduate degree in Nursing from D’Youville College in Buffalo, New York.

She was in the 2006 graduating EXTRA Fellowship Program sponsored through the Canadian Health Research Foundation, in which she developed a professional practice model for public health which was ground breaking to practice.  She has received the Canadian Nurses Association Award of Merit for Administration, and a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Alumni Association at Lakehead University. Her research areas include cancer survivorship, frailty, seniors quality of life and SARS.

Maureen has assisted in curriculum development at the Bloomberg School of Nursing, University of Toronto and the Nursing Scholar Practitioner Program at Nipissing University. She has been a faculty teaching nursing at the University of Toronto, Toronto Metropolitan University, and George Brown College. During the COVID pandemic she shared her knowledge and expertise at Safehaven for Community Living as an infection and prevention control nurse assisting developmentally challenged youth and their families. She has published extensively in peer reviewed journals and has several book chapters to her credit.

Maureen has had the privilege of being a member of two research ethics boards, at the former Ryerson University and Public Health Ontario. She currently is a community representative on the Veritas Research Ethics Board. She is a past Board Member on the Canadian Nurses Association, the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, the Registered Nurses Foundation of Ontario, and the University of Toronto Library Consortium.

She was the inaugural President of the Ontario Public Health Nursing Leaders Association. She also developed and is co-host on a six- part podcast series, Stories from the Field: Public Health Nursing in Ontario which is being used to enhance the undergraduate nursing curriculum and encourage students to consider public health as a career option.