Faculty profile
Melissa Brooks
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Research
Latest papers
A Protocol for Identifying Priorities for Women+ Health in the Maritime Provinces Using a Priority Setting Partnership Approach.
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
Effectiveness of the Essential Coaching Postpartum Digital Health Solution on Parenting Self-Efficacy, Mental Health, Well-Being, and Parenting Outcomes: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.
JMIR research protocols · 2025
User-Centered Development of a Patient Decision Aid for Choice of Early Abortion Method: Multi-Cycle Mixed Methods Study.
Journal of medical Internet research · 2024
Latest funding
- $374,851
Trauma-Informed Care Guidelines for Virtual Abortion Services (TICG-VAS)
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $478,126
What do Canadians want from abortion care? A mixed-methods study to identify priorities
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $344,250
Ten Years of Changes to Maritime Abortion Incidence and Access: A Multiple Methods Study
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
8 publications.
A Protocol for Identifying Priorities for Women+ Health in the Maritime Provinces Using a Priority Setting Partnership Approach.
Dol J, Pritchett C, Larocque L, Bentley J, Brooks M, Rose AJE, Rosen NO, Davies E, Yeluri M, Gosse M
Effectiveness of the Essential Coaching Postpartum Digital Health Solution on Parenting Self-Efficacy, Mental Health, Well-Being, and Parenting Outcomes: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Dol J, Chambers CT, Parker JA, Brooks M, Dennis CL, Seguin D, Goldberg JM, Hughes B, Reese T, Richard G, Calnan K
User-Centered Development of a Patient Decision Aid for Choice of Early Abortion Method: Multi-Cycle Mixed Methods Study.
Wahl KJ, Brooks M, Trenaman L, Desjardins-Lorimer K, Bell CM, Chokmorova N, Segall R, Syring J, Williams A, Li LC, Norman WV, Munro S
Trajectories of Dyspareunia From Pregnancy to 24 Months Postpartum.
Rosen NO, Dawson SJ, Binik YM, Pierce M, Brooks M, Pukall C, Chorney J, Snelgrove-Clarke E, George R
Comparing Self-Reported Pain During Intercourse and Pain During a Standardized Gynecological Exam at 12- and 24-Month Postpartum.
Rossi MA, Vermeir E, Brooks M, Pierce M, Pukall CF, Rosen NO
Perspectives Among Canadian Physicians on Factors Influencing Implementation of Mifepristone Medical Abortion: A National Qualitative Study.
Munro S, Guilbert E, Wagner MS, Wilcox ES, Devane C, Dunn S, Brooks M, Soon JA, Mills M, Leduc-Robert G, Wahl K, Zannier E, Norman WV
Could implementation of mifepristone address Canada's urban-rural abortion access disparity: a mixed-methods implementation study protocol.
Norman WV, Munro S, Brooks M, Devane C, Guilbert E, Renner R, Kendall T, Soon JA, Waddington A, Wagner MS, Dunn S
Treatment of Vulvodynia: Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Approaches.
Rosen NO, Dawson SJ, Brooks M, Kellogg-Spadt S
Trauma-Informed Care Guidelines for Virtual Abortion Services (TICG-VAS)
Principal investigators: Abdulai, Abdul-Fatawu; Norman, Wendy V
Keywords: Abortion; Digital Health; Health Equity; Trauma-Informed Care; Virtual Care Technologies
What do Canadians want from abortion care? A mixed-methods study to identify priorities
Principal investigators: Paynter, Martha J; Munro, Sarah B; Trenaman, Michael L
Keywords: Abortion; Access To Care; Decision Making; Health Equity; Health Service Providers; Health Systems; Sexual Health Services
Ten Years of Changes to Maritime Abortion Incidence and Access: A Multiple Methods Study
Principal investigators: Paynter, Martha J; Austin, Nichole; Schummers, Laura
Keywords: Abortion Services; Access To Care
Virtual Care-Generated Inequities Among Trauma Survivors Seeking Abortion Care
Principal investigators: Abdulai, Abdul-Fatawu
Keywords: Abortion; Health Equity; Survivors Of Trauma; Telehealth; Telemedicine; Trauma-Informed Care; Underserved Populations; Virtual Care
It's My Choice: A mixed methods implementation evaluation of a patient decision aid to support abortion care in Canada
Principal investigators: Brooks, Melissa; Cook, Jocelynn L; Dol, Justine; Munro, Sarah B
Keywords: Abortion; Implementation Evaluation; Implementation Research; Patient Decision Aid; Shared Decision Making
"How far is too far?" Creating an evidence base to support safe provision of medication abortion for people living far from emergency services.
Principal investigators: Norman, Wendy V; Henry, Bonnie J; Munro, Sarah B; Schummers, Laura
Keywords: Abortion; Chart Review; Clinical Care Guidelines; Interviews; Linked Health Administrative Data Analysis; Rural And Remote Health Care; Shared Decision Making; Systematic Review
"How far is too far?" Creating an evidence base to support safe provision of medication abortion for people living far from emergency services
Principal investigators: Norman, Wendy V; Henry, Bonnie J; Munro, Sarah B; Schummers, Laura
Keywords: Abortion; Case-Control Study; Clinical Practice Guidelines; Emergency Care; Interviews; Linked Health Administrative Data Analysis; Rural And Remote Health Care; Shared Decision Making
Storytelling about Options and Reproductive access for Youth (The STORY Project): A Pan-Canadian Integrated Knowledge Translation Study to Improve Contraception Health Services
Principal investigators: Munro, Sarah B; Di Meglio, Giuseppina; Norman, Wendy V
Keywords: Access To Care; Contraception; Health Equity; Health Service Providers; Health Systems; Pregnancy Prevention; Sexual Health Services; Youth Health
The CART Mife-Outcomes study: Relating Canada's unique mifepristone regulations to health system events, costs and access to abortion, using linked health administrative data.
Principal investigators: Norman, Wendy V; Henry, Bonnie J; McGrail, Kimberlyn M
Keywords: Drug Policy Research; Family Planning; Health Economic Analyses; Health Equity; Health Research Capacity Building; Health Services Access; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Inter-Jurisdictional Health System And Service Comparison; Linked Health Administrative Data Analysis; Population Health Research
The CART Canadian NP mifepristone implementation study
Principal investigators: Norman, Wendy V; Martin-Misener, Ruth; Roussel, Josette
Keywords: Access To Care; Family Planning; Health Equity; Health Policy, Systems And Services; Implementation Research; Inter-Jurisdictional Comparisons; Interdisciplinary Team; Medical Abortion; Mifepristone; Nurse Practitioner
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
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Family Practice
- Clinical Public Health Division
- Nursing
- Psychology
- Nutritional Sciences
- School of Nursing
- Other
Co-authors at Dalhousie University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Sarah Munro
Family Practice
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Justine Dol
Obstetrics and Gynecology
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Sheila Dunn
Clinical Public Health Division
2 shared papers, latest 2020
Sarah Munro
Obstetrics and Gynecology
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Kate Wahl
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Cindy-Lee Dennis
Nutritional Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Jill Chorney
Community Health and Epidemiology
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Caroline Pukall
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Erna Snelgrove-Clarke
School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Regina Renner
Obstetrics and Gynecology
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Marie-Soleil Wagner
Obstetrics and Gynecology
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Caroline Pukall
Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Tamil Kendall
Family Practice
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Edith Guilbert
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2020
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