Recent Projects

  • Aging in place and food security study

    Aging in place supports are a top priority for seniors and health system administrators alike. A continuum of care is a planning tool that maps out the spectrum of services for a particular need, enabling better patient navigation and service planning. This research piloted its use for aging in place services by developing a model and applying it to services that support food security for seniors aging at home in St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.

  • Heat action plans

    Briefing note and slide deck on the emerging need for a governmental response to extreme heat events in Newfoundland and Labrador. Includes an overview of local demographic and contextual factors that increase the health consequences of extreme heat, as well as a sample heat action plan based on best practices from other jurisdictions.

  • 2SLGBTQIA+ advocacy and faith groups

    Academic research poster presented at the Community-Based Research Centre’s 2024 Summit. Critically examines the right-wing narrative that faith traditions uniformly oppose transgender rights, and how the use of this issue framing by queer advocates undermines the movement and introduces the threat of real or perceived xenophobia and racism into queer rights rhetoric.

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Research Approaches

FRAMEWORKS

  • Primordial Prevention

  • Planetary Health

  • Social Determinants of Health

  • Political Science Approaches

  • Community-Based Participatory Research

  • Continuum of Care Models

  • Public Health as a social movement

  • “Spiritual solutions to social problems”



INTERESTS

  • Housing

  • Food security

  • Aging in place and age-friendly infrastructure

  • Health and climate

  • LGBTQ health

  • Needs assessments

  • Revitalizing civic and associational life

  • Unique roles and tools available to faith traditions in climate advocacy

  • Complex relationships between faith traditions and health services