News and Publications for 2023

Dawit Guta, Hisham Zerriffi, Jill Baumgartner, Abhishek Jain, Sunil Mani, Darby Jack, Ellison Carter, Guofeng Shen, Jennifer Orgill-Meyer, Joshua Rosenthal, Katherine Dickinson, Rob Bailis, Yuta Masuda, Moving Beyond Clean Cooking Energy adoption: Using Indian ACCESS panel data to understand solid fuel suspension. Energy Policy, Volume 184, 2024. 113908. ISSN 0301-4215. doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113908.

The research of Jill Baumgartner was mentioned in the The Nation article: AKU’s Climate Change, Health, Environment moot concludes on a high note on November 28, 2023.

Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry wrote this chapter in the following book:
Legal Personality p:483-490 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law. Edited by Jan M. Smits, Jaakko Husa, Catherine Valcke, and Madalena Narciso. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing. December 2023. ISBN:9781839105593.

For an ethics of public deliberation. Actual News Magazine. Daniel Weinstock.

Dufour I, Arsenault-Lapierre G, Guillette M, Dame N, Poitras ME, Lussier MT, Fortier A, Brunet J, Martin J, Laverdure M, Brousseau G, Bergman H, Couturier Y, Quesnel-Vallée A, Vedel I. Research protocol of the Laval-ROSA Transilab: a living lab on transitions for people living with dementia. BMC Health Serv Res. 2023 Nov 14;23(1):1255. doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-10248-6. PMID: 37964248; PMCID: PMC10647081.

Bilodeau J, Quesnel-Vallée A, Poder T. Work stressors, work-family conflict, parents' depressive symptoms and perceived parental concern for their children's mental health during COVID-19 in Canada: a cross-sectional analysis. BMC Public Health. 2023 Nov 7;23(1):2181. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-17037-0. PMID: 37936129; PMCID: PMC10629015.

Claire Corsten, Zoua M. Vang, Ian Gold, Maya J. Goldenberg, Fernanda Pérez-Gay Juarez, Daniel Weinstock, Maxwell J. Smith, Oren Krajden, Elizaveta Solomonova. Understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Canada. Vaccine. 2023, ISSN 0264-410X, doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.10.058.

Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry. Ableism’s New Clothes: Achievements and Challenges for Disability Rights in Canada. University of Toronto Law Journal. e20220082. doi.org/10.3138/utlj-2022-0082.

Doussau A, Kane P, Peppercorn J, Feustel AC, Ganeshamoorthy S, Kekre N, Benjamin DM, Kimmelman J. The impact of feedback training on prediction of cancer clinical trial results. Clinical Trials. 2023;0(0). doi:10.1177/17407745231203375

Hahn MB, Michlig GJ, Hansen A, Manning L, Augustinavicius JL (2023) Mental health during wildfires in Southcentral Alaska: An assessment of community-derived mental health categories, interventions, and implementation considerations. PLOS Clim 2(10): e0000300. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000300.

Scott CM, Haggerty J, Couturier Y, Quesnel-Vallée A, Stewart T, Dionne É. Inconsistent Governance Structures for Health and Social Services Limit Service Integration for Patients with Complex Care Needs. Healthc Policy. 2023 Oct;19(SP):39-52. doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2023.27180. PMID: 37850704; PMCID: PMC10594950.

Haggerty J, Scott CM, Quesnel-Vallée A, Stewart T, Dionne É, Farmanara N, Couturier Y. Have Primary Care Renewal Initiatives in Canada Increased Comprehensive Care for Patients with Complex Care Needs? Yes and No. Healthc Policy. 2023 Oct;19(SP):53-64. doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2023.27179. PMID: 37850705; PMCID: PMC10594942.

Dionne É, Haggerty J, Scott CM, Doucet S, Stewart T, Quesnel-Vallée A, Montelpare W, Urquhart R, Sutherland JM, Couturier Y. Toward Comprehensive Care Integration in Canada: Delphi Process Findings from Researchers, Clinicians, Patients and Decision Makers. Healthc Policy. 2023 Oct;19(SP):24-38. doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2023.27181. PMID: 37850703; PMCID: PMC10594939.

Haggerty J, Scott CM, Couturier Y, Quesnel-Vallée A, Dionne É, Stewart T, Urquhart R, Montelpare W, Doucet S, Oelke ND. Connecting Health and Social Services for Patients with Complex Care Needs: A Pan-Canadian Comparative Policy Research Program. Healthc Policy. 2023 Oct;19(SP):10-23. doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2023.27182. PMID: 37850702; PMCID: PMC10594949.

Felix Vazquez, Adam Millard-Ball & Christopher Barrington-Leigh (03 Oct 2023): Urban development & street-network sprawl in Tokyo, Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2023.2262698.

Nicholas King was interviewed for a PodBean podcast - What's The Health?

Friesen P, Wusinich C, Lynch K, Russell D. "A Light at the End of the Tunnel": Experiences With Peer Specialists in the Open Dialogue Model. Psychiatr Serv. 2023 Sep 27:appips20230126. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.20230126. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37752824.

Ouimet C, Hutchinson N, Wang C, Matyka C, Del Paggio JC, Kimmelman J. Large numbers of patients are needed to obtain additional approvals for new cancer drugs: A retrospective cohort study. Sci Rep. 2023 Sep 26;13(1):16138. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-42213-y. PMID: 37752147; PMCID: PMC10522579.

Nicholas King was interviewed by Alexis Madrigal for KQED. California Expands Program That Pays People to Stop Using Drugs.

Friesen P, Gelinas L, Kirby A, Strauss DH, Bierer BE. Acknowledging Complexity and Reimagining IRBs: A Reply to Discussions of the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma. Am J Bioeth. 2023 Sep;23(9):W1-W8. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2023.2237762. PMID: 37647484; PMCID: PMC10491426.

Augustinavicius J, Purgato M, Tedeschi F, Musci R, Leku MR, Carswell K, Lakin D, van Ommeren M, Cuijpers P, Sijbrandij M, Karyotaki E, Tol WA, Barbui C. Prevention and promotion effects of Self Help Plus: secondary analysis of cluster randomised controlled trial data among South Sudanese refugee women in Uganda. BMJ Open. 2023 Sep 12;13(9):e048043. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048043. PMID: 37699637; PMCID: PMC10503328.

Victoire Michal, Jon Wakefield, Alexandra M. Schmidt, Alicia Cavanaugh, Brian Robinson, Jill Baumgartner. Small Area Estimation with Random Forests and the LASSO.

Bilodeau J, Mikutra-Cencora M, Quesnel-Vallée A. Correction to: Work-family interface and children's mental health: a systematic review. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2023 Sep 2;17(1):102. doi: 10.1186/s13034-023-00651-6. Erratum for: Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2023 Mar 30;17(1):45. PMID: 37660089; PMCID: PMC10474618.

Ignacio Nazif-Munoz J, Quesnel-Vallée A, van den Berg A. Assessing the impact of road safety agencies and health systems in traffic outcomes across 146 countries, 1994-2012. Accid Anal Prev. 2023 Sep;189:107122. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2023.107122. Epub 2023 May 24. PMID: 37235967.

Bicer S, Hutchinson N, Feldhake E, Nelson A, Oliviero E, Waligóra M, Kimmelman J. Timing for First-in-Minor Clinical Trials of New Cancer Drugs. J Pediatr. 2023 Aug 31;263:113705. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.113705. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37657661.

Westra S, Goldberg MS, Labrèche F, Baumgartner J, Ho V. The association between the incidence of postmenopausal breast cancer and occupational exposure to selected organic solvents, Montreal, Canada, 2008-2011. Am J Ind Med. 2023 Aug 11. doi: 10.1002/ajim.23525. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37565624.

Salmon C, Quesnel-Vallée A, Barnett TA, Benedetti A, Cloutier MS, Datta GD, Kestens Y, Nicolau B, Parent MÉ. Neighbourhood social deprivation and risk of prostate cancer. Br J Cancer. 2023 Aug;129(2):335-345. doi: 10.1038/s41416-023-02299-7. Epub 2023 May 15. PMID: 37188877; PMCID: PMC10338528.

Lazarevič P, Quesnel-Vallée A. Rating Health and Rating Change: How Canadians Rate Their Health and Its Changes. J Aging Health. 2023 Aug;35(7-8):535-542. doi: 10.1177/08982643221119654. Epub 2022 Aug 22. PMID: 35995753; PMCID: PMC10302354.

Beaudry, JS. (2023). The “Reasonably Foreseeable Natural Death” Requirement in Bill C-7, and Expressivist Harm. In: Kotalik, J., Shannon, D.W. (eds) Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada . The International Library of Bioethics, vol 104. Springer, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30002-8_5.

Law professor Daniel Weinstock appointed to the Order of Canada. July 2023.

Salmon C, Quesnel-Vallée A, Parent MÉ. Family structure and living arrangements as indicators of social isolation, and prostate cancer risk. Prev Med. 2023 Jul;172:107544. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107544. Epub 2023 May 11. PMID: 37178831.

Friesen P, Gelinas L, Kirby A, Strauss DH, Bierer BE. IRBs and the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma: Finding a Balance. Am J Bioeth. 2023 Jun;23(6):75-88. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2022.2063434. Epub 2022 Apr 28. PMID: 35482887; PMCID: PMC9926358.

Yu M, Montroy J, Fergusson D, Lalu MM, Kimmelman J. Matured forecast analyses for "systematic and narrative review lead experts to different cancer trial predictions". J Clin Epidemiol. 2023 Jul;159:344-345. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.05.009. Epub 2023 May 19. PMID: 37211326.

Castro AR, Ould Brahim L, Chen Q, Arnaert A, Quesnel-Vallée A, Moffatt K, Kildea J, Bitzas V, Pang C, Hall AJ, Pagnotta A, Tsimicalis A. Information and Communication Technologies to Support the Provision of Respite Care Services: Scoping Review. JMIR Nurs. 2023 May 30;6:e44750. doi: 10.2196/44750. PMID: 37252760; PMCID: PMC10265430.

Sourial N, Beauchet O, Kruglova K, Robins S, Margo-Dermer E, Quesnel-Vallée A, Launay C, Dassieu L, Godard-Sebillotte C, Karunananthan S, Puzhko S, Holyoke P, Tchouaket E. Profiles of socially isolated community-dwelling older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A latent class analysis. Maturitas. 2023 May;171:1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2023.02.002. Epub 2023 Feb 21. PMID: 36863186; PMCID: PMC9941310.

Robert MacTavish, Honor Bixby, Alicia Cavanaugh, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Ayaga Bawah, George Owusu, Majid Ezzati, Raphael Arku, Brian Robinson, Alexandra M. Schmidt, Jill Baumgartner, Identifying deprived “slum” neighbourhoods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana using census and remote sensing data, World Development, Volume 167, 2023, 106253, ISSN 0305-750X, doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106253.

Moyer H, Bittlinger M, Nelson A, Fernandez L, Sheng J, Wang Y, Del Paggio JC, Kimmelman J. Bypassing phase 2 in cancer drug development erodes the risk/benefit balance in phase 3 trials. J Clin Epidemiol. 2023 Jun;158:134-140. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.03.028. Epub 2023 Apr 5. PMID: 37028684.

The research of Jill Baumgartner was mentioned in the media in June 2023:
Experts Warn: Canada’s Devastating Wildfires a Crucial Wake-Up Call
Unprecedented wildfire season sparks concern across Canada
Wildfires in Canada, US: How to stay safe if you are affected

Abosede S. Alli, Sierra N. Clark, Jiayuan Wang, James Bennett, Allison F. Hughes, Majid Ezzati, Michael Brauer, James Nimo, Josephine Bedford-Moses, Solomon Baah, Alicia Cavanaugh, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, George Owusu, Jill Baumgartner, Raphael E. Arku, High-resolution patterns and inequalities in ambient fine particle mass (PM2.5) and black carbon (BC) in the Greater Accra Metropolis, Ghana, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 875, 2023, 162582, ISSN 0048-9697.

Omobowale O, Omigbodun O, Egbokhare O, Koski A (2023) A protocol for a controlled, pre-post intervention study to change attitudes toward child marriage in Southwestern Nigeria using targeted radio programming. PLoS ONE 18(5): e0285902. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285902.

Hetherington E, Harper S, Davidson R, Festo c, Lamkin N, Mtenga S, Teixeira C, Vincent I, Nandi A. Impact evaluation of the TAMANI project to improve maternal and child health in Tanzania. J Epidemiol Community Health 2023;77:410-416.

Christopher Barrington-Leigh. Wellbeing & Social Media.

Weinstock, D.M. Multiculturalism as Harm Reduction. Res Publica (2023). doi.org/10.1007/s11158-023-09585-4.

Gelinas L, Strauss DH, Chen Y, Ahmed HR, Kirby A, Friesen P, Bierer BE. Protecting the Vulnerable and Including the Under-Represented: IRB Practices and Attitudes. J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2023 Feb-Apr;18(1-2):58-68. doi: 10.1177/15562646221138450. Epub 2022 Dec 7. PMID: 36476180; PMCID: PMC10033343.

The Ethics of Animal Shelters. Edited by Valery Giroux, Kristin Voigt, and Angie Pepper. Published by Oxford University Press. New York, New York. April 2023. ISBN: 9780197678633.

Jocelyn Maclure and Daniel Weinstock published this chapter in the following book:
Two Conceptions of Public Philosophy: A Conditional Defence of Contemporary Normative Theory: page 25 in Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity-The Public Philosophy of James Tully, number 10 in the Democracy, Diversity, and Citizen Engagement Series, edited by Dimitrios Karmis and Jocelyn Maclure. Published by McGill-Queen's University Press in February 2023. ISBN 9780228014300

Caroline M. Joyce, Tuan T. Nguyen, Toan N. Pham, Roger Mathisen & Arijit Nandi (2023) The impact of Vietnam’s 2013 extension of paid maternity leave on women’s labour force participation, Journal of Asian Public Policy, DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2023.2182157.

Alissa Koski was interviewed by Ameko Eks Mass Carrol for CBC Kids News on March 8, 2023. Child marriage just became illegal in England but still happens in Canada.

Nicholls SG, Taylor HA, James R, Anderson EE, Friesen P, Schonfeld T, Summers EI. A Cross Sectional Survey of Recruitment Practices, Supports, and Perceived Roles for Unaffiliated and Non-scientist Members of IRBs. AJOB Empir Bioeth. 2023;14(3):174-184. doi: 10.1080/23294515.2023.2180107. Epub 2023 Feb 23. PMID: 36821084; PMCID: PMC10444906.

Zhang, Y., Liu, N., Li, Y., Baumgartner, J., Adamkiewicz, G., Bhalla, K., Rodriguez, J., Gemmell, E. Neighborhood infrastructure-related risk factors and non-communicable diseases: a systematic meta-review. Environ Health 22, 2 (2023). doi.org/10.1186/s12940-022-00955-8.

Lakin DP, Cooper SE, Andersen L, Brown FL, Augustinavicius JLS, Carswell K, Leku M, Adaku A, Au T, Bryant R, Garcia-Moreno C, White RG, Tol WA. Psychological flexibility in South Sudanese female refugees in Uganda as a mechanism for change within a guided self-help intervention. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2023 Jan;91(1):6-13. doi: 10.1037/ccp0000774. PMID: 36729493.