Geneviève Roch

Geneviève Roch is a nurse and professor at the Faculty of Nursing Sciences at Laval University. She is a researcher affiliated with the Research Center of the CHU de Québec-Université Laval, VITAM: Research Center in Sustainable Health of the CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale, and the Research Center of the CISSS de Chaudière-Appalaches. Her work focuses on service organization and optimizing health practices, with an emphasis on integrated mobilization and knowledge application to support optimal clinical-administrative decisions and the implementation of innovative approaches. Her expertise lies at the intersection of various disciplinary approaches, which she primarily applies to care trajectories in perinatology, childhood, family, and pediatric hemato-oncology. She was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal of Canada in 2009. The quality and relevance of her work have been recognized through research grants aimed at contributing to the quality of care and the expertise of stakeholders for the benefit of family and child health.

She has developed a digital web tool enabling the operationalization of calculations related to an innovative policy analysis and intervention method accessible to all (O’Neill, Roch, & Boyer, 2011). The method is used in various university-level courses and training programs, as well as in continuing education for community stakeholders. This approach is also utilized in research through workshops aimed at promoting the scaling up of health and social service practices or innovations.

She led a collaborative research program with her team on service organization in perinatology, which included two studies with integrated knowledge application strategies and a transfer/valorization project with digital training and a public website. These projects were conducted in partnership with community organizations and social economy enterprises providing postnatal home support services called “Relevailles,” parent partners, and various healthcare decision-makers, managers, and professionals. These projects led to the award of a “Tribute to Social Innovations” Prize (2015) from Laval University.

She is responsible for a collaborative research program on the impacts of digital education and optimizing services for families. Her work aims to evaluate the impacts of group and online prenatal education services on perinatal health, as well as on service networks with community partners. Geneviève Roch is also the designated co-responsible for a large-scale program on best practices in pediatric hemato-oncology for and with families. This program aims to develop and evaluate an organizational innovation supporting nursing expertise through modules including engaging and playful digital training.