Research
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Latest papers
Contemporary trends of witchcraft accusations and resulting violence against children: A scoping review and bibliometric analysis protocol.
PloS one · 2026
Satisfaction With Youth Mental Health Services in Diverse Settings: Results From a Pan-Canadian Initiative.
Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2026
Exploring the Presenting Problems and Services Received by Youth with Diverse Mental Health Presentations in Integrated Youth Mental Health Services Across Canada.
International journal of integrated care · 2026
Latest funding
- $37,268
Understanding Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Transnational Spaces: Exploring the case of children in Ghana and African newcomers in Canada
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $58,333
To Protect and Serve Whom? The Whiteness of Canadian Policing
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $500,000
Transforming the Lives of Black Children and Youths in Canada
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
33 publications.
Contemporary trends of witchcraft accusations and resulting violence against children: A scoping review and bibliometric analysis protocol.
Spence C, Mahama ES, Jarvis K, Zettl M, Yakong VN, Ani-Amponsah M, Vallianatos H, Adjorlolo S, Setsoafia CK, Maina G, Richter S, Petrucka P
Satisfaction With Youth Mental Health Services in Diverse Settings: Results From a Pan-Canadian Initiative.
Bedirian J, Cowan T, Noël V, Lal S, Joober R, Shah J, Abdel-Baki A, Fuhrer R, Boksa P, Andersson N, MacDonald K, Morin CA, Levasseur MA, Vallianatos H, Augustine L, Friese K, Godin I, Urichuk L, Hutt-MacLeod D, Plourde V, Rabbitskin N, Reaume-Zimmer P, Rousseau C, Malla A, Iyer SN
Exploring the Presenting Problems and Services Received by Youth with Diverse Mental Health Presentations in Integrated Youth Mental Health Services Across Canada.
Mughal S, Sanchez-Allakhverdieva A, Abdel-Baki A, Andersson N, Boksa P, Hutt-Macleod D, Joober R, Lal S, Chisholm-Nelson J, Morrison N, Frampton A, Levasseur MA, Augustine L, Friese K, Godin I, Hay K, Rabbitskin N, Reaume-Zimmer P, Vallianatos H, Iyer SN, Malla A, Shah JL, ACCESS Open Minds
Beyond subsidies: An inclusive approach to address financial barriers and inform policy action on access to municipal physical activity infrastructure among young families with low income
Ana Paula Belon, Laura Nieuwendyk, Helen Vallianatos, Candace I. J. Nykiforuk
An Approach to Providing Timely Mental Health Services to Diverse Youth Populations.
Iyer SN, Boksa P, Joober R, Shah J, Fuhrer R, Andersson N, Lal S, D'Andrea G, Morrison N, Noel V, Rabouin D, Cowan T, MacDonald K, Levasseur MA, Poukhovski-Sheremetyev F, Abdel-Baki A, Augustine L, Friese K, Godin I, Hay K, Hutt-MacLeod D, Plourde V, Rabbitskin N, Reaume-Zimmer P, Rousseau C, Rudderham H, Abba-Aji A, Aubin D, Urichuk L, Vallianatos H, Golchi S, Winkelmann I, Chisholm-Nelson J, Malla A
Transitions for youth and young adults with eating disorders and/or other mental health conditions: a Canadian guideline
Dimitropoulos G, Nicula M, Krishnapillai A, Austin A, Singh M, Lee J, Webb C, Scott S, de Almeida ACV, Bergmann C
Examining the experiences of student peer support workers delivering care within post-secondary institutions.
Dimitropoulos G, Cullen E, Hews-Girard JC, Patten SB, MacPherson P, Shah J, Friese K, Wiens K, Lipton-Bos B, Vallianatos H, Szeto ACH, Ferrari M, Iyer S
Exploring relationships with food after dietary intervention in patients with colorectal cancer: a qualitative analysis from the Protein Recommendations to Increase Muscle (PRIMe) trial
Katherine L. Ford, Maira Quintanilha, Claire F. Trottier, Wendy Victoria Wismer, Michael B. Sawyer, Mario Siervo, Nicolaas E.P. Deutz, Helen Vallianatos, Carla Marques Maia Prado
Sociocultural Factors Affecting Breastfeeding Practices of Mothers During Natural Disasters: A Critical Ethnography in Rural Pakistan.
Hirani SAA, Richter S, Salami B, Vallianatos H
Violence and precarity: A neglected cause of large family sizes in Pakistan.
Ataullahjan A, Vallianatos H, Mumtaz Z
Understanding Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Transnational Spaces: Exploring the case of children in Ghana and African newcomers in Canada
Principal investigators: Richter, Solina
Keywords: Children; Transnational spaces; Immigrants; Witchcraft; Intersectionality
To Protect and Serve Whom? The Whiteness of Canadian Policing
Principal investigators: Yankey, Manzah-Kyentoh
Keywords: policing; race; racism; whiteness; critical race theory; Canada
Transforming the Lives of Black Children and Youths in Canada
Keywords: Adolescent; African; Black; Caribbean; Child; Children; Youth
Migration and precarity: from the temporary foreign worker program to permanent resident, student and undocumented migrant status
Principal investigators: Salami, Oluwabukola O.
Keywords: migrant workers; temporary foreign workers; migrant rights; participatory action research; transnationalism
A multi-sector partnership to investigate and develop policy and practice models to dismantle rape culture in universities
Keywords: university policy; sexual violence; rape culture; human rights; social media; news media; art and popular culture; consent; sexting; intent; student agency; accountability; systemic barriers; tacit condoning; prevention; sector experts
Assessing dietary and lifestyle risk factors for maternal health in 'at high-risk' women of childbearing age (Inuit, Inuvialuit, and First Nations populations in Arctic Canada)
Principal investigators: Sharma, Sangita; Baker, Philip N
Keywords: Aboriginal Health; Community Based Participatory Research; Community Health Services Delivery; Evidence Based Intervention Development; Knowledge Translation; Lifestyle Risk Factor Assessment; Maternal Health; Nutrition; Policy Development; Sustainable Program Development
Optimizing food choices and practices in the perinatal period for immigrant and new Canadian women.
Principal investigators: Higginbottom, Gina M; Etowa, Josephine B; Racine, Louise
Keywords: Cultural Competency; Ethnocultural Health Practices; Focused Ethnography; Food Choices; Health Services; Immigrant Health; Maternity; Perinatal; Postcolonial Theory
Assessing dietary and lifestyle risk factors for maternal health in 'at high-risk' women of childbearing age (Inuit, Inuvialuit, and First Nations populations in Arctic Canada)
Principal investigators: Sharma, Sangita; Baker, Philip N
Keywords: Aboriginal Health; Community Based Participatory Research; Community Health Services Delivery; Evidence Based Intervention Development; Knowledge Translation; Lifestyle Risk Factor Assessment; Maternal Health; Nutrition; Policy Development; Sustainable Program Development
If We Build It, Will They Come? Exploring the Impact of Community Investment in Recreation Spaces on Health Equity and Access to Physical Activity Opportunities
Principal investigators: Nykiforuk, Candace
Keywords: Built Environment; Chronic Disease Prevention; Community Health; Health Equity; Mixed Methods; Municipal Policy; Natural Experiment; Nonrandomized Quasi-Experiment; Physical Activity; Recreation Spaces
Assessing Community Environments for Physical Activity and Healthy Eating: Development of Innovative Mixed-Methods Approaches for Utilizing Objective and Subjective Data
Principal investigators: Nykiforuk, Candace; Schopflocher, Donald P
Keywords: Built Environment; Community Health; Discriminant Function Analysis; Health Outcomes; Mixed Methods; Participatory Workshops
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Ridha Joober and Ashok Malla: 271 shared papers
- Bukola Salami and Oluwabukola Salami: 209 shared papers
- Amal Abdel-Baki and Amel Abdel-Baki: 202 shared papers
- Ashok Malla and Srividya Iyer: 155 shared papers
- Ridha Joober and Srividya Iyer: 121 shared papers
- Ashok Malla and Jai Shah: 110 shared papers
- Srividya Iyer and Jai Shah: 107 shared papers
- Ridha Joober and Jai Shah: 104 shared papers
- Candace Nykiforuk and Kim Raine: 55 shared papers
- Srividya Iyer and Amal Abdel-Baki: 42 shared papers
- Srividya Iyer and Amel Abdel-Baki: 41 shared papers
- Ridha Joober and Patricia Boksa: 39 shared papers
- Srividya Iyer and Manuela Ferrari: 34 shared papers
- Ridha Joober and Shalini Lal: 29 shared papers
- Ashok Malla and Shalini Lal: 28 shared papers
- Ashok Malla and Amal Abdel-Baki: 25 shared papers
- Ashok Malla and Amel Abdel-Baki: 24 shared papers
- Srividya Iyer and Patricia Boksa: 21 shared papers
- Ashok Malla and Patricia Boksa: 20 shared papers
- Bukola Salami and Solina Richter: 20 shared papers
- Jai Shah and Manuela Ferrari: 19 shared papers
- Srividya Iyer and Shalini Lal: 18 shared papers
- Kimberly Jarvis and Solina Richter: 17 shared papers
- Bukola Salami and Sophie Yohani: 17 shared papers
- Oluwabukola Salami and Sophie Yohani: 16 shared papers
- Oluwabukola Salami and Solina Richter: 16 shared papers
- Ashok Malla and Rebecca Fuhrer: 15 shared papers
- Manuela Ferrari and Amal Abdel-Baki: 15 shared papers
- Neil Andersson and Shalini Lal: 10 shared papers
- Rebecca Fuhrer and Shalini Lal: 9 shared papers
- Ridha Joober and Neil Andersson: 8 shared papers
- Srividya Iyer and Neil Andersson: 8 shared papers
- Cecile Rousseau and Amal Abdel-Baki: 8 shared papers
- Solina Richter and Helen Vallianatos: 8 shared papers
- Srividya Iyer and Gina Dimitropoulos: 7 shared papers
- Srividya Iyer and Helen Vallianatos: 7 shared papers
- Cecile Rousseau and Amel Abdel-Baki: 7 shared papers
- Ridha Joober and Helen Vallianatos: 6 shared papers
- Ashok Malla and Helen Vallianatos: 6 shared papers
- Rebecca Fuhrer and Jai Shah: 6 shared papers
- Candace Nykiforuk and Helen Vallianatos: 6 shared papers
- Zubia Mumtaz and Anushka Ataullahjan: 6 shared papers
- Patricia Boksa and Helen Vallianatos: 6 shared papers
- Jai Shah and Helen Vallianatos: 6 shared papers
- Shalini Lal and Helen Vallianatos: 6 shared papers
- Neil Andersson and Helen Vallianatos: 5 shared papers
- Bukola Salami and Shela Hirani: 5 shared papers
- Oluwabukola Salami and Shela Hirani: 5 shared papers
- Shela Hirani and Solina Richter: 5 shared papers
- Ridha Joober and Cecile Rousseau: 4 shared papers
- Srividya Iyer and Ina Winkelmann: 4 shared papers
- Rebecca Fuhrer and Helen Vallianatos: 4 shared papers
- Cecile Rousseau and Helen Vallianatos: 4 shared papers
- Zubia Mumtaz and Helen Vallianatos: 4 shared papers
- Amal Abdel-Baki and Helen Vallianatos: 4 shared papers
- Kimberly Jarvis and Helen Vallianatos: 4 shared papers
- Anushka Ataullahjan and Helen Vallianatos: 4 shared papers
- Ridha Joober and Ina Winkelmann: 3 shared papers
- Zubia Mumtaz and Sophie Yohani: 3 shared papers
- Manuela Ferrari and Gina Dimitropoulos: 3 shared papers
- Bukola Salami and Helen Vallianatos: 3 shared papers
- Oluwabukola Salami and Helen Vallianatos: 3 shared papers
- Amel Abdel-Baki and Helen Vallianatos: 3 shared papers
- Ashok Malla and Ina Winkelmann: 2 shared papers
- Jai Shah and Gina Dimitropoulos: 2 shared papers
- Kim Raine and Helen Vallianatos: 2 shared papers
- Manuela Ferrari and Helen Vallianatos: 2 shared papers
- Gina Dimitropoulos and Helen Vallianatos: 2 shared papers
- Ina Winkelmann and Helen Vallianatos: 2 shared papers
- Sophie Yohani and Helen Vallianatos: 2 shared papers
- Shela Hirani and Helen Vallianatos: 2 shared papers
- Candace Nykiforuk and Zubia Mumtaz: 1 shared paper
- Candace Nykiforuk and Anushka Ataullahjan: 1 shared paper
- Department of Psychiatry
- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
- School of Public Health
- Anthropology Dept
- Ethnography
- Center for Health Promotion
- École de réadaptation
- Other
Co-authors at University of Alberta, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Solina Richter
Ethnography
8 shared papers, latest 2026
Srividya Iyer
Department of Psychiatry
7 shared papers, latest 2026
Ashok Malla
Department of Psychiatry
6 shared papers, latest 2026
Candace Nykiforuk
Center for Health Promotion
6 shared papers, latest 2026
Shalini Lal
École de réadaptation
6 shared papers, latest 2026
Ridha Joober
Department of Psychiatry
6 shared papers, latest 2026
Jai Shah
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
6 shared papers, latest 2026
Patricia Boksa
Department of Psychiatry
6 shared papers, latest 2026
Neil Andersson
Department of Family Medicine
5 shared papers, latest 2026
Zubia Mumtaz
School of Public Health
4 shared papers, latest 2022
Anushka Ataullahjan
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
4 shared papers, latest 2022
Kimberly Jarvis
Nursing
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Gina Higginbottom
Faculty
4 shared papers, latest 2021
Rebecca Fuhrer
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Amal Abdel-Baki
Faculté de médecine - Département de psychiatrie et d’addictologie
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Cecile Rousseau
Department of Psychiatry
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Mary Levasseur
Department of Psychiatry
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Norma Rabbitskin
Department of Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2026
Oluwabukola Salami
Department of Community Health Sciences
3 shared papers, latest 2023
Daphne Hutt-MacLeod
Department of Psychiatry
3 shared papers, latest 2025
JC Spence
Academic Programs
1 shared papers, latest 2012
Ahmed Boachie
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Sarah Smith
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Andrea Levinson
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Cathleen Steinegger
Department of Paediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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