Charlene Roquillo

Dr. Charlene Ronquillo is a Filipina scholar, Registered Nurse and Health Informatician, serving as the lead of the Health Informatics Equity Lab at the UBC Okanagan School of Nursing.

The goal of Ronquillo’s work is to enhance equity in health care through thoughtful, meaningful and inclusive technologies to equity in health informatics via critical approaches to health technology development, implementation and evaluation. A key aim of her research is to ensure the meaningful inclusion of non-dominant groups in the conceptualization, design, development and implementation of health technologies within health systems.

Dr. Ronquillo has expertise in mixed methods, participatory and co-production approaches and software design and development methods, along with the technology lifecycle—from conceptualization to evaluation and refinement. She has experience in 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 her BScN from McGill University (2007), and her MSN (2010) and PhD (2021) from UBC. Prior to joining UBC Okanagan, she 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 (2016-2019), and an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University (2019-2021). 

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