Melissa Giesbrecht

Research

Dissemination Health Policy Assessment Tool Intersectionality Knowledge Exchange

Latest papers

Palliating inside the lines: The effects of borders and boundaries on palliative care in rural Canada
Social Science and Medicine · 2016 · first author
Revisiting the use of ‘place’ as an analytic tool for elucidating geographic issues central to Canadian rural palliative care
Health and Place · 2016 · first author
Identifying socio-environmental factors that facilitate resilience among Canadian palliative family caregivers: a qualitative case study.
Palliative & supportive care · 2015 · first author

All 7 publications

Latest funding

Supporting Vulnerable and Marginalized Older Adults to be Cared for and to Die at 'Home'
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$1,131,436
Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework 2.0: An improved approach for explicating the "+" in SGBA+
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$600,526
Dissemination of an Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Tool for Canadian Health Policy Makers
CIHR · 2012 · Nominated PI
$19,757

All 4 grants and awards

7 publications.

01

Palliating inside the lines: The effects of borders and boundaries on palliative care in rural Canada

Giesbrecht M, Crooks VA, Castleden H, Schuurman N, Skinner M, Williams A

Social Science and Medicine201612 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.04.037

02

Revisiting the use of ‘place’ as an analytic tool for elucidating geographic issues central to Canadian rural palliative care

Giesbrecht M, Crooks VA, Castleden H, Schuurman N, Skinner MW, Williams AM

Health and Place20165 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.06.006

03

Identifying socio-environmental factors that facilitate resilience among Canadian palliative family caregivers: a qualitative case study.

Giesbrecht M, Wolse F, Crooks VA, Stajduhar K

Palliative & supportive care2015First author

DOI: 10.1017/s1478951513001028 PMID: 24477169

04

An intersectionality-based policy analysis framework: critical reflections on a methodology for advancing equity.

Hankivsky O, Grace D, Hunting G, Giesbrecht M, Fridkin A, Rudrum S, Ferlatte O, Clark N

International journal for equity in health2014

DOI: 10.1186/s12939-014-0119-x PMID: 25492385

05

Critically examining diversity in end-of-life family caregiving: implications for equitable caregiver support and Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit

Giesbrecht M, Crooks VA, Williams A, Hankivsky O

International Journal for Equity in Health201261 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-11-65 PMID: W2111838662

06

Perspectives from the frontlines: palliative care providers’ expectations of Canada’s compassionate care benefit programme

Giesbrecht M, Crooks VA, Williams A

Health and Social Care in the Community201012 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2010.00937.x

07

Spatially informed knowledge translation: Informing potential users of Canada's Compassionate Care Benefit

Giesbrecht M, Crooks VA, Schuurman N, Williams A

Social Science and Medicine200924 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.05.037

Supporting Vulnerable and Marginalized Older Adults to be Cared for and to Die at 'Home'

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant

Principal investigators: Stajduhar, Kelli I

Keywords: Dying At Home; Housing; Older Adults; Palliative And End Of Life Care; Structural Inequities; Urban

$1,131,436

Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework 2.0: An improved approach for explicating the "+" in SGBA+

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Hankivsky, Olena

Keywords: Health Inequities; Health Policy; Intersectionality; Sex And Gender Based Analysis Plus

$600,526

Dissemination of an Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Tool for Canadian Health Policy Makers

Nominated PICIHR2012Dissemination Events - PA: Gender, Sex and Health Research

Principal investigators: Giesbrecht, Melissa D; Hankivsky, Olena

Keywords: Dissemination; Health Policy Assessment Tool; Intersectionality; Knowledge Exchange

$19,757

Knowledge Mobilization of Canada's Compassionate Care Benefit

Co-investigatorCIHR2010Knowledge Translation Supplement

Principal investigators: Williams, Allison M

Keywords: Canadian Compassionate Care Benefit; Integrated Kt; Knowledge Mobilization; Knowledge Tools; Knowledge Users

$95,320

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Earth, Environment & Society
Geography and Planning
Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences
School of Nursing
Trent Centre for Aging and Society (TCAS)
Medicine
Other

Co-authors at Simon Fraser University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Allison Williams

Earth, Environment & Society

5 shared papers, latest 2016

Heather Castleden

Geography and Planning

2 shared papers, latest 2016

Mark Skinner

Trent Centre for Aging and Society (TCAS)

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Kelli Stajduhar

School of Nursing

1 shared papers, latest 2015

Daniel Grace

Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences

1 shared papers, latest 2014

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