Welcome Dr. Candace Burton - Editor

Following a wide call for expressions of interest for the role of Editor, Witness is pleased to welcome Dr. Candace Burton to the role in 2026.

Dr. Candace W. Burton, PhD, RN (US), AFN-BC, FAAN is Director of the York University School of Nursing. Dr. Burton previously served as the Associate Dean for Advanced Education and Director of Doctoral Education at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. She holds undergraduate degrees in Studies in Women and Gender and in Nursing from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in Nursing Research from the University of California, San Francisco. Her research focuses on stress and trauma, particularly in the context of health disparities. She practices as a consulting forensic nurse, and her research has been funded in the U.S. by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation among others. 

Dr. Burton is a trained qualitative and mixed methodologist, and has published on the social determinants of health, structural violence, the trauma of violence and abuse, and nursing education on vulnerable populations. She is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in Advanced Forensic Nursing, and holds a post-graduate certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from Cornell University. Dr. Burton is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and her innovative work has received both national and international attention from diverse audiences of advocates, researchers, and community-based care providers. She teaches at all levels of nursing education on topics including care of vulnerable populations, the social determinants of health, and qualitative and mixed research methodologies.

Dr. Burton will work with Dr. van Daalen-Smith during the development of  Volume 8(1).

Welcome to this warm and dedicated community, Candace.