Bold Ideas: Planning for Care

Pat Armstrong

Invited Lecture, 2021

Lecture in Honour of Pat Kaufert given by Pat Armstrong at the University of Manitoba, Sept. 17, 2021.

Pat Kaufert received her Ph.D. in 1976 from the Centre of West African Studies at the University of Birmingham, England. Coming to Canada in 1977 she was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship to retrain as a health researcher specializing in the fields of medical sociology and medical anthropology. A Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba, she was a pioneer in women’s health research and an outstanding, quiet activist within and without the university. She died in 2019 and a Lecture series was established in her Honour. This is the first lecture in that series.