Ellen Balka is a Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. She has published in the fields of gender and technology, health informatics, health and medicine, and community academic research partnerships. She received a YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Workplace Innovation, a career achievement award from British Columbia Faculty Associations, and a Michael Smith Senior Scholar's Award, and she has held international research fellowships in Austria and Norway. Balka served as the Principal Investigator of Action for Health and contributions she and her team made received the Artful Integrators Award for Participatory Design.
