Charlene Ronquillo RN PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
Dr. Ronquillo is a Filipina scholar, Registered Nurse, and health informatician, and lead of the Health Informatics Equity Lab at the UBCO School of Nursing. The goal of Dr. Ronquillo’s work is to improve equity in healthcare with thoughtful, meaningful, and inclusive technologies and improve equity in health informatics through critical approaches to health technology development, implementation, and evaluation. A key aim of Dr. Ronquillo’s research is to ensure the meaningful inclusion of non-dominant groups in the conceptualization, design, development, and implementation of health technologies in health systems. Dr. Ronquillo has expertise in mixed methods, participatory, and co-production approaches, software design/development methods, and the technology lifecycle: from conceptualization to evaluation and refinement. I have experience with various aspects of health information technology in health systems and nursing, including nursing informatics competencies, usability research, user-centered design and development, rapid and exploratory prototyping, and technology adoption and usage.
Dr. Ronquillo obtained their BScN from McGill University (2007), and MSN (2010) and PhD (2021) from UBC. Prior to joining UBCO, Dr. Ronquillo was a Health Service Improvement Research Fellow at the University of the West of England (2016), an Associate Research Fellow in Implementation Science at the University of Exeter Medical School (2016-19), and an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, ON (2019-21).
