Faculty profile
Rishma Chooniedass
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Research
Latest papers
Virtual Health Interventions to Improve Breastfeeding: A Systematic Review.
Pediatrics · 2026
Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccination among breastfeeding and pregnant people: Application of the health belief model.
Sexual & reproductive healthcare : official journal of the Swedish Association of Midwives · 2026
Effect of expressed human milk feeding on breastfeeding duration in term infants: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2026
Latest funding
- $10,000
Improving access to breastfeeding support in British Columbia: A collaborative planning project
CIHR · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $20,000
COVID-19 vaccine awareness in British Columbia: A community-based knowledge dissemination initiative for people who are pregnant, breastfeeding, and parents to young children
CIHR · 2022 · Principal investigator
11 publications.
Virtual Health Interventions to Improve Breastfeeding: A Systematic Review.
Fan HSL, Fong DYT, Wittenberg K, Mantai K, Chooniedass R, Hubick R, Grewal J, Tarrant M
Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccination among breastfeeding and pregnant people: Application of the health belief model.
Fan HSL, Masina S, Chooniedass R, Keys E, Dorn K, Hopkins M, Liao-Lussier P, Tarrant M
Effect of expressed human milk feeding on breastfeeding duration in term infants: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Fan HSL, Fong DYT, Lok KYW, Chooniedass R, Wittenberg K, Tarrant M
Preschool Oral Immunotherapy Is Associated With Improved Parental Food Allergy-Specific Anxiety and Quality of Life: A Real-World Observational Study.
Baaske A, Golding MA, Protudjer JLP, Chooniedass R, Cameron SB, Cook VE, Kapur S, Rex G, McHenry M, Wong T, Mak R, Erdle SC, Vander Leek TK, Tong JY, Chan ES, Soller L
Understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy during parenthood in British Columbia.
Halonen A, Fan HSL, Masina S, Chooniedass R, Keys E, Tarrant M
Protocol: the International Milk Composition (IMiC) Consortium - a harmonized secondary analysis of human milk from four studies.
Fehr K, Mertens A, Shu CH, Dailey-Chwalibóg T, Shenhav L, Allen LH, Beggs MR, Bode L, Chooniedass R, DeBoer MD, Deng L, Espinosa C, Hampel D, Jahual A, Jehan F, Jain M, Kolsteren P, Kawle P, Lagerborg KA, Manus MB, Mataraso S, McDermid JM, Muhammad A, Peymani P, Pham M, Shahab-Ferdows S, Shafiq Y, Subramoney V, Sunko D, Toe LC, Turvey SE, Xue L, Rodriguez N, Hubbard A, Aghaeepour N, Azad MB
Embedding cultural safety in nursing education: A scoping review of strategies and approaches.
Chooniedass R, Reekie M, Denison J, Mercuri A, Nawara R, Purcell N, Oelke M, Janke R
Health and nutrition claims for infant formula: international cross sectional survey.
Cheung KY, Petrou L, Helfer B, Porubayeva E, Dolgikh E, Ali S, Ali I, Archibald-Durham L, Brockway MM, Bugaeva P, Chooniedass R, Comberiati P, Cortés-Macías E, D'Elios S, Feketea G, Hsu P, Kana MA, Kriulina T, Kunii Y, Madaki C, Omer R, Peroni D, Prokofiev J, Simpson MR, Shimojo N, Siziba LP, Genuneit J, Thakor S, Waris M, Yuan Q, Zaman S, Young BE, Bugos B, Greenhawt M, Levin ME, Zheng J, Boyle RJ, Munblit D
Factors associated with breast-feeding initiation and continuation in Canadian-born and non-Canadian-born women: a multi-centre study
Chooniedass R, Tarrant M, Turner S, Fan HSL, Del Buono K, Masina S, Becker AB, Mandhane P, Turvey SE, Moraes T
Parents of children with food allergy: A qualitative study describing needs and identifying solutions.
Chooniedass R, Soller L, Hsu E, To S, Cameron SB, Chan ES
Improving access to breastfeeding support in British Columbia: A collaborative planning project
Principal investigators: Tarrant, Marie; Chooniedass, Rishma; Keys, Elizabeth M
Keywords: Breastfeeding; Community-Based Research; Professional Support; Virtual Healthcare
COVID-19 vaccine awareness in British Columbia: A community-based knowledge dissemination initiative for people who are pregnant, breastfeeding, and parents to young children
Principal investigators: Tarrant, Marie; Chooniedass, Rishma; Keys, Elizabeth M
Keywords: Community-Based Research; Knowledge Dissemination; Pregnancy, Breastfeeding, And Parenthood; Vaccine Hesitancy
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
- School of Nursing
- Medicine
- Epidemiology Division
- Other
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Marie Tarrant
School of Nursing
6 shared papers, latest 2026
Elizabeth Keys
School of Nursing
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Padmaja Subbarao
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Malcolm Sears
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Padmaja Subbarao
Epidemiology Division
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Robert Janke
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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