Research
Jessica Gaber is a Research/Program Coordinator for projects that focus on promoting healthy individual behaviour change, large-scale systemic change, or both. She is also a Health Policy PhD candidate exploring how to do research in carceral settings more ethically, appropriately, acceptably, and feasibly. She is skilled in developing, implementing, and evaluating health interventions, including through qualitative methods, mixed methods, and implementation science, with a pariticular expertise in qualitative. Jessica is a Registered Social Worker with a Master of Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University and experience in three sides of social work practice: research, community development, and clinical work. She’s most interested in projects that can bring voices to populations in need and support communities in making change where change is needed. Before joining the Department of Family Medicine, she worked in research at the Offord Centre for Child Studies (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neuroscience), as well as in crisis intervention, mental health counselling, and community mental health both at home and in western Africa.
Research areas are derived from OpenAlex topics of their publications.
33 publications.
Exploring access to desired and appropriate contraception during incarceration: A qualitative description of the experiences of women in custody in Ontario, Canada
Norris E, Gaber J, Zhu J, Jennings L, Vanstone M, Liauw J, Jurgutis J, McLeod KE, Kouyoumdjian FG
Healthcare considerations for aging people in prisons
Sanya N, Gaber J, Cavanagh A, Howard M, Kouyoumdjian FG
Understanding Trauma-Informed Care in Correctional Facilities: A Scoping Review
Gaber J, Scallan E, Kouyoumdjian FG
Continuing the conversation: practical strategies to enable acceptable and feasible health research in prisons
Gaber J, Kerrigan C, Grenada IM, Kief N, Metcalfe J, Kouyoumdjian FG
Exploring the effects of community-based volunteering to support older adults on volunteers: A mixed methods study in Ontario, Canada
Gaber J, Parascandalo F, Di Pelino S, Datta J, Lamarche L, Begum H, Clark RE, Gagnon C, Oliver D, Price D
Interest-holder priorities for health surveillance of people incarcerated in Canada: A qualitative study
Gaber J, Sanya N, Cavanagh A, Bear S, Howdle S, Grenada IM, Howard M, Iftene A, Kouyoumdjian FG
Identifying accurate methods of assessing blood pressure and health information by lay volunteers in the Philippines: Adapting a Canadian cardiometabolic health program to LMICs
Angeles R, Arnuco FD, Cristobal F, Dolovich L, Kaczorowski J, Guenter D, Selvarajah K, Parascandalo F, Gaber J, Agarwal G
A Process Model of Formative Work to Strengthen a Prison Health Surveillance System
Gaber J, Sanya N, Lawson J, Grenada IM, Kouyoumdjian FG
Applying Best Practices from CAPs to a Community-Academic-Corrections Partnership: Academic Partner Perspectives.
Gaber J, Elston D, Sanya N, McLeod KE, Kouyoumdjian FG
Understanding collaborative implementation between community and academic partners in a complex intervention: a qualitative descriptive study
Clark R, Gaber J, Datta J, Talat S, Bomze S, Marentette-Brown S, Gagnon C, Oliver D, Lamarche L, Forsyth P
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