Eric Crighton, University of Ottawa

Research

Environmental Health Health Education Health Promotion Health Services Knowledge Translation Prenatal Care Preventive Care

Latest papers

Using black knowledges to recognise and address barriers to COVID-19 vaccination in Malawi.
BMC public health · 2025 · senior author
Engaging, recruiting, and retaining pregnant people from marginalized communities in environmental health cohort studies: a scoping review.
BMC public health · 2025
Canadian Healthcare Access in Parkinson's Disease and COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Survey.
The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques · 2024

All 18 publications

Latest funding

Co-developing Indigenous Prenatal Environmental Health Literacy Strategies in what is now Canada: A Community-Based Participatory Action Research Endeavour
CIHR · 2021 · Supervisor
$105,000
Canada's COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Impact in Homeless or At-Risk for Homelessness, and Visible Minority Populations in Canada: A Mixed-Method Study
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
$129,283
The Urban Exposome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Determining Environmental Factors that Increase the Risk of IBD and the Cost of Care
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
$75,000

All 6 grants and awards

18 publications.

01

Using black knowledges to recognise and address barriers to COVID-19 vaccination in Malawi.

Odenigbo C, Mkandawire P, Wesche S, Crighton E

BMC public health2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-23747-4 PMID: 40770749

02

Engaging, recruiting, and retaining pregnant people from marginalized communities in environmental health cohort studies: a scoping review.

Fazli GS, Phipps E, Crighton E, Sarwar A, Ashley-Martin J

BMC public health2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-22033-7 PMID: 40050851

03

Canadian Healthcare Access in Parkinson's Disease and COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Survey.

McKeown MD, Crighton E, Mestre TA, iCARE-PD consortium

The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques2024

DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2023.275 PMID: 37605974

04

Early life exposure to pollens and increased risks of childhood asthma: a prospective cohort study in Ontario children.

Stanescu C, Talarico R, Weichenthal S, Villeneuve PJ, Smargiassi A, Stieb DM, To T, Hebbern C, Crighton E, Lavigne É

The European respiratory journal2024

DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01568-2023 PMID: 38636971

05

Exploring COVID-19 from the perspectives of healthcare personnel in Malawi.

Odenigbo C, Crighton E

Health care science2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/hcs2.58 PMID: 38939524

06

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on perceived access and quality of care in German people with parkinsonism.

van Munster M, Printz MR, Crighton E, Mestre TA, Pedrosa DJ, iCARE-PD Consortium

Frontiers in public health2023

DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1091737 PMID: 37124823

07

Critical windows of exposure to air pollution and gestational diabetes: assessing effect modification by maternal pre-existing conditions and environmental factors.

Miron-Celis M, Talarico R, Villeneuve PJ, Crighton E, Stieb DM, Stanescu C, Lavigne É

Environmental health : a global access science source2023

DOI: 10.1186/s12940-023-00974-z PMID: 36918883

08

Fine particulate matter concentration and composition and the incidence of childhood asthma.

Lavigne É, Talarico R, van Donkelaar A, Martin RV, Stieb DM, Crighton E, Weichenthal S, Smith-Doiron M, Burnett RT, Chen H

Environment international2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106486 PMID: 33684735

09

Ambient ultrafine particle concentrations and incidence of childhood cancers.

Lavigne E, Lima I, Hatzopoulou M, Van Ryswyk K, van Donkelaar A, Martin RV, Chen H, Stieb DM, Crighton E, Burnett RT, Weichenthal S

Environment international2020

DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.106135 PMID: 32979813

10

Ambient air pollution and incidence of early-onset paediatric type 1 diabetes: A retrospective population-based cohort study.

Elten M, Donelle J, Lima I, Burnett RT, Weichenthal S, Stieb DM, Hystad P, van Donkelaar A, Chen H, Paul LA, Crighton E, Martin RV, Decou ML, Luo W, Lavigne É

Environmental research2020

DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109291 PMID: 32120123

Co-developing Indigenous Prenatal Environmental Health Literacy Strategies in what is now Canada: A Community-Based Participatory Action Research Endeavour

SupervisorCIHR2021Doctoral Research Award -PA: Research in First Nations, Métis &/or Inuit Health

Principal investigators: Forbes, Andrew

Keywords: Community-Based Participatory Action Research; Ethical Space; Health Equity; Health Literacy Environment; Indigenous Peoples' Prenatal Environmental Health; Prenatal Environmental Health Literacy; Two-Eyed Seeing

$105,000

Canada's COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Impact in Homeless or At-Risk for Homelessness, and Visible Minority Populations in Canada: A Mixed-Method Study

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Op Grant: COVID-19 Rapid Research FO - Social Policy and Public Health Responses

Principal investigators: Pakhale, Smita; Etowa, Josephine B

Keywords: Covid-19; Digital Literacy; Health Literacy; Homeless/At-Risk For Homelessness; Low-Income; Public Health Messaging; Visible Minorities

$129,283

The Urban Exposome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Determining Environmental Factors that Increase the Risk of IBD and the Cost of Care

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Operating Grant: Data Analysis - Healthy Cities Intervention Research

Principal investigators: Benchimol, Eric I; Kaplan, Gilaad G; Kuenzig, M. Ellen

Keywords: Air Pollution; Environmental Health; Health Care Costs; Health Services Utilization; Inflammatory Bowel Disease

$75,000

Integrating Prenatal Environmental Health Education into Clinical Care in Canada: The PEHE Study

Nominated PICIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Crighton, Eric J; Smith, Graeme N

Keywords: Environmental Health; Health Education; Health Promotion; Health Services; Knowledge Translation; Prenatal Care; Preventive Care

$378,676

Integrated Parkinson Care Networks: addressing complex care in Parkinson disease in contemporary society

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Operating Grant: Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND)

Principal investigators: Mestre, Tiago

Keywords: Care Delivery Model; Co-Design; Health Economy; Health Geography; Health Technology; Parkinson Disease

$348,651

Environmental health risks to infants: perspectives of new mothers

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Crighton, Eric J.

Keywords: environmental equity; risk perception; new mothers

$119,569

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

Medicine
Geography and Environmental Studies
Clinical Public Health Division
Occupational & Environmental Health Division
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
Health Sciences
Pediatrics
Other

Co-authors at University of Ottawa, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Hong Chen

Occupational & Environmental Health Division

9 shared papers, latest 2021

Scott Weichenthal

Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health

9 shared papers, latest 2024

Scott Weichenthal

Health Sciences

7 shared papers, latest 2021

Teresa To

Pediatrics

6 shared papers, latest 2024

Mark Walker

Obstetrics and Gynecology

5 shared papers, latest 2019

Éric Lavigne

School of Epidemiology and Public Health

3 shared papers, latest 2020

Kristian Larsen

Geography and Environmental Studies

2 shared papers, latest 2017

Christopher Carlsten

Medicine

2 shared papers, latest 2017

Mohsen Sadatsafavi

Medicine/Respirology

2 shared papers, latest 2017

Andrea Gershon

Medicine

2 shared papers, latest 2017

Paul Mkandawire

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Hong Chen

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2017

Alan Abelsohn

Clinical Public Health Division

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Sonia Wesche

Geography, Environment and Geomatics

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Lynn Marshall

Clinical Public Health Division

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Éric Lavigne

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

1 shared papers, latest 2017

Marianna Ofner

Epidemiology Division

1 shared papers, latest 2017

Éric Lavigne

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2017

Mark Walker

Obstétrique et gynécologie

1 shared papers, latest 2017

Audrey Smargiassi

Occupational and Environmental Health

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Mark Walker

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2017

Graeme Smith

School of Nursing

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Audrey Smargiassi

Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2024

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