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Denise Gastaldo
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Latest papers
The Intersecting Effects of Biomedicine and Patriarchy on the Social Lives of Women Undergoing Cervical Cancer Prevention.
Seminars in oncology nursing · 2026 · senior author
Transgressive Acts: Michel Foucault's Lessons on Resistance for Nurses.
Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals · 2025 · senior author
Sex as Boys' Fame, But Girls' Shame: Adversarial Adolescent Gender Roles and Gender-based Violence in Guyana.
Journal of interpersonal violence · 2022
Latest funding
- $6,000
Body-map storytelling: developing a qualitative methodology to promote health equity
CIHR · 2024 · Supervisor
- $237,437
NARTURE: More-than-Human Inquiry Using Art and Nature to Promote Equity and Inclusion
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $155,490
Social mobilization as policymaking lever? A trans-Atlantic COVID-19 dialogue on community action and decentralized governance
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
33 publications.
The Intersecting Effects of Biomedicine and Patriarchy on the Social Lives of Women Undergoing Cervical Cancer Prevention.
Freijomil-Vázquez C, Gastaldo D
Transgressive Acts: Michel Foucault's Lessons on Resistance for Nurses.
Moreno-Mulet C, Valdivielso-Navarro J, Miró-Bonet M, Carrero-Planells A, Gastaldo D
Sex as Boys' Fame, But Girls' Shame: Adversarial Adolescent Gender Roles and Gender-based Violence in Guyana.
Rodney R, Gastaldo D, Trotz DA, Crooks CV
Immigration Status as the Foundational Determinant of Health for People Without Status in Canada: A Scoping Review
Asymmetric Power Relations in Gynaecological Consultations for Cervical Cancer Prevention: Biomedical and Gender Issues.
Freijomil-Vázquez C, Gastaldo D, Coronado C, Movilla-Fernández MJ
The Health Consequences of Neocolonialism for Latin American Immigrant Women Working as Caregivers in Spain: A Multisite Qualitative Analysis.
Briones-Vozmediano E, Rivas-Quarneti N, Gea-Sánchez M, Bover-Bover A, Carbonero MA, Gastaldo D
COVID-19 policy measures-Advocating for the inclusion of the social determinants of health in modelling and decision making.
Rangel JC, Ranade S, Sutcliffe P, Mykhalovskiy E, Gastaldo D, Eakin J
How to translate scientific knowledge into practice? Concepts, models and application.
Vieira ACG, Gastaldo D, Harrison D
The medicalisation of the dying self: The search for life extension in advanced cancer.
Mohammed S, Peter E, Gastaldo D, Howell D
When risk becomes illness: The personal and social consequences of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia medical surveillance.
Freijomil-Vázquez C, Gastaldo D, Coronado C, Movilla-Fernández MJ
Body-map storytelling: developing a qualitative methodology to promote health equity
Principal investigators: Kamara, Bakita
Keywords: Body Map Storytelling; Equity; Social Justice
NARTURE: More-than-Human Inquiry Using Art and Nature to Promote Equity and Inclusion
Principal investigators: Juando Prats, Clara
Keywords: youth engagement youth studies post-human inquiry new-materialisms social isolation social inequities gender-based violence teenage parenting visual arts nature
Social mobilization as policymaking lever? A trans-Atlantic COVID-19 dialogue on community action and decentralized governance
Principal investigators: Birn, Anne-Emanuelle
Keywords: community mobilization; decentralized governance; global health; migrant; racialized groups; social policy; south-north learning
Social mobilization as policymaking lever? A trans-Atlantic COVID-19 dialogue on community action and decentralized governance
Principal investigators: Birn, Anne-Emanuelle
Keywords: community mobilization; decentralized governance; global health; migrant; racialized groups; social policy; south-north learning
Migration at the Margins: Testimonios of Belonging and Social Rights for Venezuelan Transgender Refugees in Latin America
Principal investigators: Perez-Brumer, Amaya
Keywords: (1) Migration and forced displacement; (2) Social protection; (3) Gender-identity; (4) Human rights; (5) Virtual ethnography
GLOBAL LANDSCAPE - Canadians in the global gig economy: implications for public policy
Principal investigators: Gastaldo, Denise
Socially Engaged Citizenship as a Pathway to Health Equity for Displaced Populations: Addressing the Complexity, Innovating the Practice
Principal investigators: Poland, Blake D; Gastaldo, Denise
Keywords: Community Of Practice; Community-Based Research; Environmental Health; Health Citizenship; Health Equity; Inclusive Methodologies; Knowledge Translation; Migrant Health; Social Determinants Of Health; Social Engagement
Health Consequences of Gendered Economic Migration: The case of undocumented Latin American workers in Ontario
Principal investigators: Gastaldo, Denise; Magalhaes, Lilian V
Keywords: Access To Health Care; Gender Differences; Health Promotion; Social Determinants Of Health; Undocumented Immigrant Workers; Working Conditions
Hitting home: the home as a site for long term care
Principal investigators: McKeever, Patricia
Keywords: Long-term home care; home care workers; health policy; family caregivers; geography of home
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
- Amna Husain and Doris Howell: 14 shared papers
- Elizabeth Peter and Shan Mohammed: 14 shared papers
- Bonnie Stevens and Denise Harrison: 11 shared papers
- Doris Howell and Denise Gastaldo: 5 shared papers
- Doris Howell and Elizabeth Peter: 4 shared papers
- Doris Howell and Shan Mohammed: 4 shared papers
- Elizabeth Peter and Denise Gastaldo: 4 shared papers
- Denise Gastaldo and Shan Mohammed: 3 shared papers
- Amna Husain and Denise Gastaldo: 2 shared papers
- Eric Mykhalovskiy and Joan Eakin: 2 shared papers
- Bonnie Stevens and Denise Gastaldo: 1 shared paper
- Elizabeth Mccay and Denise Gastaldo: 1 shared paper
- Nazilla Khanlou and Sepali Guruge: 1 shared paper
- Nazilla Khanlou and Denise Gastaldo: 1 shared paper
- Carles Muntaner and Denise Gastaldo: 1 shared paper
- Carles Muntaner and Suzanne Jackson: 1 shared paper
- Sepali Guruge and Denise Gastaldo: 1 shared paper
- Denise Harrison and Denise Gastaldo: 1 shared paper
- Lawrence Paszat and Denise Gastaldo: 1 shared paper
- Eric Mykhalovskiy and Denise Gastaldo: 1 shared paper
- Clara Juando-Prats and Denise Gastaldo: 1 shared paper
- Denise Gastaldo and Suzanne Jackson: 1 shared paper
- Denise Gastaldo and Freida Chavez: 1 shared paper
- Denise Gastaldo and Joan Eakin: 1 shared paper
- Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
- School of Nursing
- Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care
- Nursing Sciences
- Sociology
- Clinical Public Health Division
- Geography and Environmental Studies
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Doris Howell
Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care
5 shared papers, latest 2020
Elizabeth Peter
Faculty
4 shared papers, latest 2020
Shan Mohammed
Faculty
3 shared papers, latest 2020
Amna Husain
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2015
Suzanne Jackson
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Freida Chavez
Clinical Public Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2010
Joan Eakin
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Carles Muntaner
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Sepali Guruge
Geography and Environmental Studies
1 shared papers, latest 2010
Denise Harrison
Nursing Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Lawrence Paszat
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2012
Eric Mykhalovskiy
Sociology
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Bonnie Stevens
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Clara Juando-Prats
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Elizabeth Mccay
School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Nazilla Khanlou
School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2010
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