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Chris Sanders

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Associate ProfessorDepartment of Health SciencesLakehead University

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Latest papers

Understanding the circle of care: Indigenous service providers’ perspectives on health and well-being
AlterNative An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples · 2025
An exploration of the role of trust and rapport in enhancing vaccine uptake among Anishinaabe in rural northern Ontario.
PloS one · 2024 · first author
Criminal Code reform of HIV non-disclosure is urgently needed: Social science perspectives on the harms of HIV criminalization in Canada
Canadian Journal of Public Health · 2024

All 69 publications

Latest funding

Supporting access and use of Indigenous healing approaches for Indigenous women to complete their circle of care
CIHR · 2018 · Co-investigator
$100,000

All 1 grants and awards

69 publications.

Understanding the circle of care: Indigenous service providers’ perspectives on health and well-being

Jenna Quelch, Muna Aden, Elaine Toombs, Chris Sanders, Candida Sinoway, Christopher J. Mushquash, Linda Barkman, Melissa Deschamps, Sherri D. Pooyak, Meghan Young, Holly Gauvin, Anita C. Benoit

AlterNative An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples20251 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1177/11771801251319274

An exploration of the role of trust and rapport in enhancing vaccine uptake among Anishinaabe in rural northern Ontario.

Sanders C, Burnett K, Ray L, Ulanova M, Halperin DM, Halperin SA, Canadian Immunization Research Network

PloS one202410 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0308876 PMID: 39636924

Criminal Code reform of HIV non-disclosure is urgently needed: Social science perspectives on the harms of HIV criminalization in Canada

Hastings C, French M, McClelland A, Mykhalovskiy E, Adam B, Bisaillon L, Bogosavljevic K, Gagnon M, Greene S, Guta A

Canadian Journal of Public Health20248 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-023-00843-9

Looking beyond the individual-The importance of accessing health and cultural services for Indigenous women in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Lin JC, Toombs E, Sanders C, Sinoway C, Amirault M, Mushquash CJ, Barkman L, Deschamps M, Young M, Gauvin H, Benoit AC

PloS one20238 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282484 PMID: 36857373

Screening out: HIV testing and the Canadian immigration experience. By L.Bisaillon, Vancouver: UBC Press. 2022. pp. 304. CAD $89.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780774867474; CAD $32.95 (pbk). ISBN: 9780774867481; CAD $32.95 (ebk). ISBN: 9780774867504

Chris Sanders

Sociology of Health & Illness2023First author

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13740

Explicitly racialised and extraordinarily over-represented: Black immigrant men in 25 years of news reports on HIV non-disclosure criminal cases in Canada.

Mykhalovskiy E, Sanders C, Hastings C, Bisaillon L

Culture, health & sexuality202115 citations

DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2020.1733095 PMID: 32379006

A reflection on the impact of COVID-19 on primary care in the United Kingdom

Richard John Gray, Chris Sanders

Journal of Interprofessional Care2020148 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1080/13561820.2020.1823948 PMID: 32962462

Indigenous Peoples, settler colonialism, and access to health care in rural and northern Ontario.

Burnett K, Sanders C, Halperin D, Halperin S

Health & place202049 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102445 PMID: 33032242

"You Need ID to Get ID": A Scoping Review of Personal Identification as a Barrier to and Facilitator of the Social Determinants of Health in North America.

Sanders C, Burnett K, Lam S, Hassan M, Skinner K

International journal of environmental research and public health202031 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17124227 PMID: 32545798

Disrupting a Canadian Prairie Fantasy and Constructing Racial Otherness: An Analysis of News Media Coverage of Trevis Smith’s Criminal HIV Non-Disclosure Case

Colin Hastings, Eric Mykhalovskiy, Chris Sanders, Laura Bisaillon

The Canadian Journal of Sociology20207 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.29173/cjs29472

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Chris Sanders

Research

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Understanding the circle of care: Indigenous service providers’ perspectives on health and well-being

An exploration of the role of trust and rapport in enhancing vaccine uptake among Anishinaabe in rural northern Ontario.

Criminal Code reform of HIV non-disclosure is urgently needed: Social science perspectives on the harms of HIV criminalization in Canada

Looking beyond the individual-The importance of accessing health and cultural services for Indigenous women in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Screening out: HIV testing and the Canadian immigration experience. By L.Bisaillon, Vancouver: UBC Press. 2022. pp. 304. CAD $89.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780774867474; CAD $32.95 (pbk). ISBN: 9780774867481; CAD $32.95 (ebk). ISBN: 9780774867504

Explicitly racialised and extraordinarily over-represented: Black immigrant men in 25 years of news reports on HIV non-disclosure criminal cases in Canada.

A reflection on the impact of COVID-19 on primary care in the United Kingdom

Indigenous Peoples, settler colonialism, and access to health care in rural and northern Ontario.

"You Need ID to Get ID": A Scoping Review of Personal Identification as a Barrier to and Facilitator of the Social Determinants of Health in North America.

Disrupting a Canadian Prairie Fantasy and Constructing Racial Otherness: An Analysis of News Media Coverage of Trevis Smith’s Criminal HIV Non-Disclosure Case

Supporting access and use of Indigenous healing approaches for Indigenous women to complete their circle of care

Frequent collaborators

Eric Mykhalovskiy

Karen Robson

Kristin Burnett

Laura Bisaillon

Patrizia Albanese

Scott Halperin

Christopher Mushquash

Darien Taylor

Anita Benoit

Viviane Namaste

Marilou Gagnon

Angela Kaida

Sherri Pooyak

Adrian Guta

Donna Halperin

Ciann Wilson

Lana Ray

Suzanne Hindmarch

Marilou Gagnon

Kelly Skinner