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Dr. Quinn Grundy is an Associate Professor at the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, with cross-appointments to the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. She serves as Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Governance, Accountability, and Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Sector and Associate Director of Nursing for the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health, and Sustainable Care. Her research focuses on the interactions between medically-related industries and public health systems, particularly examining pharmaceutical and medical device company influence on healthcare delivery and policy.
Dr. Grundy completed her PhD in Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco (2015) and earned her BScN from the University of Alberta (2009). She completed postdoctoral training at the University of Sydney's School of Pharmacy and has been a Registered Nurse with the College of Nurses of Ontario since 2020. Prior to her current position, she served as Assistant Professor at the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing (2019-2025) and held research fellowships with the WHO Collaborating Centre.
Her research spans pharmaceutical industry marketing practices, conflicts of interest in healthcare, health policy development, and nursing practice. She is particularly known for her book 'Infiltrating Healthcare: How Marketing Works Underground to Influence Nurses' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), which details how registered nurses interact with pharmaceutical and medical device company representatives. Her work examines how industry relationships shape healthcare delivery, evidence generation, and policy development, with particular attention to transparency mechanisms and governance structures.
Analysis of Dr. Grundy's recent publications reveals a consistent focus on industry influence in healthcare, with particular attention to transparency mechanisms like the Open Payments database, pharmaceutical marketing practices, conflict of interest management, and governance structures in global health initiatives. Her work employs diverse methodologies including qualitative analysis, scoping reviews, and policy analysis to examine how commercial interests intersect with healthcare systems across multiple contexts including nursing, pharmacy, and public health policy.
- Dorothy M. Pringle Award for Excellence in Nursing Research (2022)
- Graduate Teaching Excellence Award (2021)
- Award for Teaching that Intellectually Challenges Students (2020)
- Emerging Nurse Researcher Award (2020)
- Silver Medal for 'Infiltrating healthcare' (2019)
Dr. Grundy leads significant research initiatives through her directorship of the WHO Collaborating Centre, where she develops and implements strategies to improve governance and transparency in pharmaceutical sector interactions with healthcare systems. Her work bridges academic research with practical policy development, focusing on creating sustainable health technology systems through evidence-based approaches. She has secured funding for multiple projects examining industry influence across different healthcare contexts and has developed frameworks for improving transparency in healthcare guideline development.
