Dr. Vandna Bhatia (She/Her)

Associate Dean, Academic

• BSc, MHSc (Toronto), PhD (McMaster)
• D391 Loeb Building, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
• vandnabhatia@cunet.carleton.ca

Professor Bhatia holds a PhD in Public Policy (2005) from McMaster University, a Master of Health Science in Health Administration (1993) and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (1989), both from the University of Toronto.

Professor Bhatia’s research is in comparative public policy and Canadian politics. She is particularly interested in the role of ideas and discourse in the politics of health care reform and how political discourses shape the construction of policy problems and the strategies and solutions proposed to address them.

Her teaching draws on her research interests: she teaches courses in comparative public policy and theories of public policy at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She also teaches undergraduate research methods.