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Joanie Sims-Gould

ResearcherFamily PracticeUniversity of British Columbia

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Joanie Sims-Gould

Researcher

Family Practice

Health Sciences

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
19 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 12 research grants (12 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2014.

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Research

Physical Activity Mobility Older Adults Implementation Science Knowledge Translation And Exchange Program Adaptation Scale-Up Social Connectedness

Latest papers

No short cuts: building trust in community-based research with ethnocultural groups.
International journal for equity in health · 2026
A Characterization of Older Adults in Primary Care in Three Canadian Provinces.
Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement · 2026
Measuring Organizational Readiness in a Community Health Promotion Program: Instrument Tailoring and Psychometric Testing.
Health promotion practice · 2025

All 78 publications

Latest funding

Alleviating waitlist woes: Implementing and evaluating a health-promoting program for people awaiting hip and knee replacement surgery for osteoarthritis
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$886,790
Alleviating waitlist woes: Adapting a health-promoting program for people awaiting hip and knee replacement for osteoarthritis
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$20,000
Healthy Cities-Implementation Science Team in Healthy Aging
CIHR · 2022 · Principal investigator
$3,000,000

All 26 grants and awards

78 publications.

No short cuts: building trust in community-based research with ethnocultural groups.

Chowdhury D, Sims-Gould J, McKay H

International journal for equity in health2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12939-025-02713-x PMID: 41593618

A Characterization of Older Adults in Primary Care in Three Canadian Provinces.

Whate A, Elliott J, Mallinson S, Giguere A, Sims-Gould J, Rockwood K, Stolee P

Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement2026

DOI: 10.1017/s0714980825100500 PMID: 41536118

Measuring Organizational Readiness in a Community Health Promotion Program: Instrument Tailoring and Psychometric Testing.

Franke T, Nettlefold L, Nandra K, Sims Gould J, McKay H, Havaei F

Health promotion practice2025

DOI: 10.1177/15248399251387143 PMID: 41216947

Are costs optimized as scale-up of Choose to Move-an effective health-promoting intervention for older adults-proceeds?

Szewczyk Z, Macdonald HM, Pinheiro MB, Nettlefold L, Sims Gould J, McKay HA

The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12966-025-01826-4 PMID: 41233872

Threats to grant peer review: a qualitative study.

Sims Gould J, Lasinsky AM, Mota A, Khan KM, Ardern CL

BMJ open2025First author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-091666 PMID: 39979050

Does optimizing Choose to Move - a health-promoting program for older adults - enhance scalability, program implementation and effectiveness?

Nettlefold L, Macdonald HM, Sims Gould J, Bauman A, Szewczyk Z, McKay HA

The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity2024

DOI: 10.1186/s12966-024-01649-9 PMID: 39695643

Adapting an Effective Health-Promoting Intervention-Choose to Move-for Chinese Older Adults in Canada.

Wong V, Franke T, McKay H, Tong C, Macdonald H, Sims-Gould J

Journal of aging and physical activity2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1123/japa.2023-0064 PMID: 37917970

What is the 'voltage drop' when an effective health promoting intervention for older adults-Choose to Move (Phase 3)-Is implemented at broad scale?

McKay HA, Macdonald HM, Nettlefold L, Weatherson K, Gray SM, Bauman A, Khan KM, Sims Gould J

PloS one2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268164 PMID: 37146002

Resident Impact of the Single Site Order Restricting Staff Mobility across Long-Term Care Homes in British Columbia, Canada.

Havaei F, Staempfli S, Ma A, Sims-Gould J, Franke T, Park M

Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2023

DOI: 10.3390/healthcare11243190 PMID: 38132080

"Think positive and don't die alone" - Foreign-born, South Asian older adults' perceptions on healthy aging.

Chowdhury D, Stolee P, Sims-Gould J, Tong C

International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being2023

DOI: 10.1080/17482631.2023.2253576 PMID: 37691478

Alleviating waitlist woes: Implementing and evaluating a health-promoting program for people awaiting hip and knee replacement surgery for osteoarthritis

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Mckay, Heather A

Keywords: Exercise; Implementation Science; Mobility; Osteoarthritis; Physical Activity; Sex And Gender Science; Social Connectedness; Surgical Wait Lists; Total Joint Arthroplasty

$886,790

Alleviating waitlist woes: Adapting a health-promoting program for people awaiting hip and knee replacement for osteoarthritis

Nominated PICIHR2024Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Sims-Gould, Joanie; Churchill, Laura K

Keywords: Implementation Science; Mobility; Osteoarthritis; Physical Activity; Program Adaptation; Sex And Gender Science; Social Connectedness; Surgical Waitlists; Total Joint Arthroplasty

$20,000

Healthy Cities-Implementation Science Team in Healthy Aging

Principal investigatorCIHR2022Team Grant: HCIS - Healthy aging

Principal investigators: Mckay, Heather A; Kupferschmidt, Anthony; Lusina, Sarah Jane C; Prakash, Adrian A; Tosdevine-Tataryn, Sahra-Lea; Tunnacliffe, Rebecca; Havaei, Farinaz; Mackey, Dawn C; Sims-Gould, Joanie

Keywords: Aging; Health Equity; Implementation Science; Knowledge Translation; Mobility; Physical Activity; Program Adaptation; Sex And Gender; Social Connectedness

$3,000,000

The Forgotten North: Adapting an effective health-promoting program for northern British Columbia

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Mckay, Heather A; Pelletier, Chelsea

Keywords: Aging; Implementation Science; Mobility; Older Adults; Physical Activity; Program Adaptation; Provincial North; Sex And Gender Science; Social Connectedness

$20,000

Workload management through understanding and addressing resident needs in long term care: A study to adapt, validate, implement and evaluate the Synergy Model

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Catalyst Grant: Quadruple Aim and Equity

Principal investigators: Havaei, Farinaz; Keselman, David

Keywords: Long Term Care; Mixed Methods; Psychological Health And Safety In The Workplace; Staffing; Workload Management; Workplace Conditions

$99,974

Implementation Science Team in Healthy Aging

Principal investigatorCIHR2021Team Grant: HCIS - LOI - Healthy aging

Principal investigators: Mckay, Heather A; Tosdevine-Tataryn, Sahra-Lea; Havaei, Farinaz; Mackey, Dawn C; Sims-Gould, Joanie

Keywords: Healthy Aging; Implementation Science; Knowledge Translation; Loneliness; Older Adults; Physical Activity; Program Adaptation; Scale-Up; Social Isolation

$24,850

Implementation and scale-up science: Tackling challenges in prevention and health promotion research

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Mckay, Heather A; Sims-Gould, Joanie

Keywords: Dissemination; Exercise; Implementation Science; Mobility; Older Adults; Physical Activity; Scale-Up

$20,000

Adapting an effective health promotion intervention for scale-up: a focus on older adults in receipt of home and community care services

Nominated PICIHR2019Operating Grant: Spread and Scale of Existing CBPHC and eHealth Innovations

Principal investigators: Sims-Gould, Joanie; Mckay, Heather A

Keywords: Adaptation; Health Promotion; Home And Community Care; Implementation Science; Older Adults; Scale-Up

$69,998

How can health benefits of an effective, scaled-up, health promotion model for older adults be sustained?

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Mckay, Heather A; Day, Meghan E; Mackey, Dawn C; Sims-Gould, Joanie

Keywords: Community-Based Health Research; Economic Evaluation; Health Promotion; Implementation Research; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Mobility; Older Adults; Physical Activity; Social Isolation/Connectedness; Sustainability

$883,576

The ABCs of Assessing Physical Literacy in Older Adults

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Jones, Gareth R

Keywords: Aging; Exercise; Health Promotion; Physical Activity; Physical Fitness; Physical Literacy; Successful Aging

$18,361

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

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Joanie Sims-Gould

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No short cuts: building trust in community-based research with ethnocultural groups.

A Characterization of Older Adults in Primary Care in Three Canadian Provinces.

Measuring Organizational Readiness in a Community Health Promotion Program: Instrument Tailoring and Psychometric Testing.

Are costs optimized as scale-up of Choose to Move-an effective health-promoting intervention for older adults-proceeds?

Threats to grant peer review: a qualitative study.

Does optimizing Choose to Move - a health-promoting program for older adults - enhance scalability, program implementation and effectiveness?

Adapting an Effective Health-Promoting Intervention-Choose to Move-for Chinese Older Adults in Canada.

What is the 'voltage drop' when an effective health promoting intervention for older adults-Choose to Move (Phase 3)-Is implemented at broad scale?

Resident Impact of the Single Site Order Restricting Staff Mobility across Long-Term Care Homes in British Columbia, Canada.

"Think positive and don't die alone" - Foreign-born, South Asian older adults' perceptions on healthy aging.

Frequent collaborators

Heather Mckay

Meghan Winters

Meghan Winters

Paul Stolee

Fabio Feldman

Jacobi Elliott

Fabio Feldman

Jacobi Elliott

Farinaz Havaei

Kenneth Rockwood

Justine Giosa

Pierre Guy

Patti-Jean Naylor

Kelly Grindrod

Habib Chaudhury

Anik Giguère

Stirling Bryan

Mohammad Hajizadeh

Andrew Sixsmith

Christine Voss

Dorothy Forbes

Aleksandra Zecevic

Ayse Kuspinar

Maureen Ashe

Jeremy Grimshaw

Sabrina Wong

Andrew Costa

Veronique Boscart

Hector Antonio Paez