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Katrina Milaney

ResearcherCommunity Health SciencesUniversity of Calgary

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Katrina Milaney

Researcher

Community Health Sciences

Health Sciences

University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
14 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 5 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 5 research grants (3 SSHRC, 2 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2025.

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Research

Co-Creation And Co-Design Community Based Participatory Research Community Engagement Evaluation Health Equity Implementation Indigenous Health Research Managed Alcohol Program

Latest papers

Pathways to healing: balancing the tensions between harm reduction and cultural practices in a managed alcohol program for Indigenous adults in Calgary, Canada.
Frontiers in public health · 2026 · senior author
Mental Health-Related Disabilities, Healthcare Utilization, and Access in Young Adults with Anxiety and Depression: A Scoping Review.
Administration and policy in mental health · 2026
Building Bridges in Palliative Care: Perspectives on a Community-Health Information Exchange.
Palliative medicine reports · 2026 · senior author

All 23 publications

Latest funding

Sites of Systemic Harm: How Health Encounters Reinforce or Resist Surveillance of Marginalized Families
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$108,500
Alberta Sex, Gender and Women's Health Hub
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$11,000
Systemic Bias in Policy: Intersections Between Homelessness, Child Protective Services, and Families Trapped in the System
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$54,233

All 26 grants and awards

23 publications.

Pathways to healing: balancing the tensions between harm reduction and cultural practices in a managed alcohol program for Indigenous adults in Calgary, Canada.

McLean A, Lucas K, Chief Moon J, Prairie Chicken A, Pauly B, Nixon L, Lamping S, Robinson J, Brown M, Wan-Sai-Cheong L, Zaretsky L, Morin T, Milaney K

Frontiers in public health2026Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1833954 PMID: 42305747

Mental Health-Related Disabilities, Healthcare Utilization, and Access in Young Adults with Anxiety and Depression: A Scoping Review.

Rao S, Dimitropoulos G, Milaney K, Eurich DT, Patten SB, HEARTS Study Coresearchers

Administration and policy in mental health2026

DOI: 10.1007/s10488-026-01494-x PMID: 41849061

Building Bridges in Palliative Care: Perspectives on a Community-Health Information Exchange.

Wan-Sai-Cheong L, Petruik C, Milaney K

Palliative medicine reports2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/26892820261439668 PMID: 42539362

Becoming Invisible: How Mental Health Systems Erode Selfhood in Young Adults With Mental Health-Related Disabilities.

Rao S, Dimitropoulos G, Milaney K, Eurich DT, Patten SB

Qualitative health research2026

DOI: 10.1177/10497323261426962 PMID: 41954560

The effect of take-home naloxone kits on opioid-related deaths in Alberta, Canada: An ecological analysis.

Spackman E, Premji S, Woroniuk A, Lang E, Milaney K, McBrien K

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2025

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-025-01056-y PMID: 40459670

Equity-Focused Palliative and End-of-Life Care in a System Not Designed for it: Qualitative Insights from Service Providers and Recipients.

Petruik CR, Wan-Sai-Cheong L, Hagos H, Milaney K

Global qualitative nursing research2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/23333936251350107 PMID: 40535777

Perspectives on Continuing Care, From Home Care to Long-Term Care, for Older People Living With HIV: A Cross-Sectional Study.

McMillan JM, Dalere J, Naqvi F, Ewa V, Lang R, Brar R, Milaney K, Bakal JA, Krentz HB, Quail PB, Shukalek CB, Leal J, Hill NE, Randall M, Gill MJ

Health science reports2025

DOI: 10.1002/hsr2.70578 PMID: 40114757

Rethinking Palliative Care Through Three Institutional Ethnographic Stories of People Living With Homelessness and Life-Limiting Illness.

Petruik CR, Milaney K

Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/00469580251390760 PMID: 41174989

"Give me the reigns of taking care of myself with a home": Healing environments in an Indigenous-led alcohol harm reduction program.

Brown M, Hunt-Jinnouchi F, Robinson J, Clark N, Mushquash C, Milaney K, Pauly B

Harm reduction journal2024

DOI: 10.1186/s12954-024-01090-y PMID: 39327559

Environmental and systems experiences of persons with spinal cord injury and their caregivers when transitioning from acute care to community living during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparative case study.

Brady J, Mouneimne M, Milaney K

Spinal cord series and cases2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41394-023-00561-x PMID: 36906673

Sites of Systemic Harm: How Health Encounters Reinforce or Resist Surveillance of Marginalized Families

SupervisorCIHR2025Health System Impact Fellowships - PostDoc Western Canada 2-year

Principal investigators: Petruik, Courtney R

Keywords: Health And Child Welfare

$108,500

Alberta Sex, Gender and Women's Health Hub

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Other: NWHRI: Coalition - Hubs - Supplement

Principal investigators: Brennand, Erin A; Alberta Health Services, Strategic Clinical Networks; Ahmed, Sofia B; Metcalfe, Amy L; Nelson, Erin L; Roach, Pamela Marie; Salami, Bukola O; Scime, Natalie V; Wells, Kristopher

Keywords: Capacity Development; Female Health; Knowledge Mobilization; Training; Women'S Health

$11,000

Systemic Bias in Policy: Intersections Between Homelessness, Child Protective Services, and Families Trapped in the System

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Milaney, Katrina J.

Keywords: Policy; systemic bias; child protective services; family homelessness; intersectionality; institutional ethnography; systems change

$54,233

Impacts of institutional policies on the ways universities employ community researchers.

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Catalyst Grant: Moving Upstream - Structural Determinants of Health-POR Approach

Principal investigators: Marshall, Zack; Waleed, Muhammad Furqan; Watson, James R

Keywords: Community-Based Research; Employment Conditions; Lived Experience Workforce; Participatory Research; Patient-Oriented Research; Policy Analysis; Precarious Employment; Structural Determinants Of Health

$124,454

Co-Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Kickstand360: A Learning Health System

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Other: IYS-Net Phase 2 - Provincial Stream Grants

Principal investigators: Dimitropoulos, Gina; Hay, Katherine; Pattison, Rachal; Arnold, Paul D; Ferrari, Manuela; Hews-Girard, Julia; Hilario, Carla T; McCabe, Erin; Roach, Pamela Marie; Salami, Bukola O; Scott, Shannon D; Seitz, Dallas P; Smith, Kelly M; Zwicker, Jennifer D

Keywords: Co-Design Methodology; Community-Based Participatory Action Research; Equity, Diversity, And Inclusion; Equity-Driven Metrics & Outcomes; Governance; Indigenous Research; Indigenous Ways Of Knowing; Integrated Youth Services (Iys); Learning Health Systems (Lhs); Youth Mental Health

$617,701

Alberta Sex, Gender and Women's Health Hub

Co-investigatorCIHR2023National Women's Health Res. Init.:Pan-Can. Women's Health Coa. - Hubs

Keywords: Capacity Development; Female Health; Knowledge Mobilization; Training; Women'S Health

$440,000

"Aging Successfully": exploring people's lived experience of late-life homelessness

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Nixon, Lara

Keywords: Experience of Aging; Homelessness; Lived experience; Participatory Action Research; Applied Hermaneutics; Arts-based methods

$73,400

Co-designing equity care with Older People with Experiences of Homelessness (OPEH): exchanging knowledge, and planning system improvement

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Nixon, Lara

Keywords: Ageism; Participatory Research

$46,520

Quality in Canada's Built Environment: Roadmaps to Equity, Social Value and Sustainability

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Partnership Grants

Keywords: built environment; quality; social value; equity; sustainability; inclusive places; architecture; landscape architecture; Indigenous studies; urban design; urban resilience; health; heritage; competitions; awards; qualitative comparative analysis

$499,172

Perspectives on continuing care, from home care to long-term care, for aging persons with Human Immunodeficiency Virus: through the lens of those with lived experience

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Catalyst Grant: HIV/AIDS CBR Program - General Stream

Principal investigators: McMillan, Jacqueline M; Gill, Michael J

Keywords: Aging; Community-Based; Continuing Care; Diversity; Equity; Hiv; Housing; Inclusion; Peer Research

$100,000

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Katrina Milaney

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Pathways to healing: balancing the tensions between harm reduction and cultural practices in a managed alcohol program for Indigenous adults in Calgary, Canada.

Mental Health-Related Disabilities, Healthcare Utilization, and Access in Young Adults with Anxiety and Depression: A Scoping Review.

Building Bridges in Palliative Care: Perspectives on a Community-Health Information Exchange.

Becoming Invisible: How Mental Health Systems Erode Selfhood in Young Adults With Mental Health-Related Disabilities.

The effect of take-home naloxone kits on opioid-related deaths in Alberta, Canada: An ecological analysis.

Equity-Focused Palliative and End-of-Life Care in a System Not Designed for it: Qualitative Insights from Service Providers and Recipients.

Perspectives on Continuing Care, From Home Care to Long-Term Care, for Older People Living With HIV: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Rethinking Palliative Care Through Three Institutional Ethnographic Stories of People Living With Homelessness and Life-Limiting Illness.

"Give me the reigns of taking care of myself with a home": Healing environments in an Indigenous-led alcohol harm reduction program.

Environmental and systems experiences of persons with spinal cord injury and their caregivers when transitioning from acute care to community living during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparative case study.

Sites of Systemic Harm: How Health Encounters Reinforce or Resist Surveillance of Marginalized Families

Alberta Sex, Gender and Women's Health Hub

Systemic Bias in Policy: Intersections Between Homelessness, Child Protective Services, and Families Trapped in the System

Impacts of institutional policies on the ways universities employ community researchers.

Co-Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Kickstand360: A Learning Health System

Alberta Sex, Gender and Women's Health Hub

"Aging Successfully": exploring people's lived experience of late-life homelessness

Co-designing equity care with Older People with Experiences of Homelessness (OPEH): exchanging knowledge, and planning system improvement

Quality in Canada's Built Environment: Roadmaps to Equity, Social Value and Sustainability

Perspectives on continuing care, from home care to long-term care, for aging persons with Human Immunodeficiency Virus: through the lens of those with lived experience

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Bonnie Fournier

Charlene Elliott

Bonnie Lashewicz

Sandy Rao

Kerry McBrien

Eldon Spackman

Gina Dimitropoulos

Patrick McLane

Rebecca Haines-Saah

Van Nguyen

Daniel Dutton

Diane Lorenzetti

Jenine Leal

Jenny Godley

Nancy Clark

Lara Nixon

Raynell Lang

Claire O'Gorman

Raynell Lang

Tolulope Sajobi

Ginetta Salvalaggio

Cheryl Barnabe

Christopher Mushquash

Fiona Clement

Gabriel Fabreau

Elaine Hyshka

Tyler Williamson

Bernadette Pauly

Ted Braun

Eric Smith

William Ghali