Laura Bisaillon, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest papers

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
"Live a normal life": Constructions of resilience among people in mixed HIV status relationships in Canada.
PloS one · 2023
Social capital and HIV-serodiscordance: Disparities in access to personal and professional resources for HIV-positive and HIV-negative partners.
SSM - population health · 2022

All 8 publications

Latest funding

Big data and risk
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
$22,998
HIV serodiscordant couples in Canada: a mixed-methods study of risk management, health and wellbeing for people living with HIV and their partners
CIHR · 2014 · Co-investigator
$471,733
What Risk? Whose Voices? An Intervention of "Risk" of HIV/AIDS Through a Participatory Ethnographic Project with African Immigrant and Refugee Youth in Winnipeg, Canada
CIHR · 2013 · Co-investigator
$253,060

All 3 grants and awards

8 publications.

01

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

02

"Live a normal life": Constructions of resilience among people in mixed HIV status relationships in Canada.

Yang M, Daftary A, Mendelsohn JB, Ryan M, Bullock S, Bisaillon L, Bourne A, Lebouché B, Thompson T, Calzavara L

PloS one20233 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281301 PMID: 36888619

03

Social capital and HIV-serodiscordance: Disparities in access to personal and professional resources for HIV-positive and HIV-negative partners.

Iveniuk J, Calzavara L, Bullock S, Mendelsohn J, Burchell A, Bisaillon L, Daftary A, Lebouché B, Masching R, Thompson T, Positive Plus One Team

SSM - population health20227 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101056 PMID: 35342785

04

A national recruitment strategy for HIV-serodiscordant partners living in Canada for the Positive Plus One study: a mixed-methods study.

Xi M, Bullock S, Mendelsohn JB, Iveniuk J, Moravan V, Burchell AN, Tan DHS, Daftary A, Thompson T, Lebouché B, Bisaillon L, Myers T, Calzavara L

BMC public health20224 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13153-5 PMID: 35473617

05

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 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2020.1733095 PMID: 32379006

06

Clever COVID-19, Clever Citizens-98: Critical and Creative Reflections from Tehran, Toronto, and Sydney.

Bisaillon L, Khosravi M, Jahandoost B, Briskman L

Journal of bioethical inquiry2020First author

DOI: 10.1007/s11673-020-10032-9 PMID: 32840857

07

When Health Care is Displaced by State Interests: Building Dialogue Through Shared Findings.

Sanders C, Bisaillon L

Qualitative health research20195 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1177/1049732318809680 PMID: 30799764

08

Blurring the boundaries: using institutional ethnography to inquire into health professions education and practice.

Ng SL, Bisaillon L, Webster F

Medical education201736 citations

DOI: 10.1111/medu.13050 PMID: 27582407

Big data and risk

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Gagnon, Marilou

Keywords: big data; data analytics; emerging technologies; information and communication technologies; risk

$22,998

HIV serodiscordant couples in Canada: a mixed-methods study of risk management, health and wellbeing for people living with HIV and their partners

Co-investigatorCIHR2014Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Calzavara, Liviana

Keywords: Antiretroviral Therapy; Biomedical Prevention; Hiv Serodiscordant Couples; Hiv/Aids; Mixed Methods; Relationships; Social Determinants Of Health; Stigma; Wellbeing

$471,733

What Risk? Whose Voices? An Intervention of "Risk" of HIV/AIDS Through a Participatory Ethnographic Project with African Immigrant and Refugee Youth in Winnipeg, Canada

Co-investigatorCIHR2013Operating Grant - HIV/AIDS CBR Program - General

Principal investigators: Frohlick, Susan E; Denetto, Shereen; Migliardi, Paula

Keywords: African Ethnic-Racial Minorities; Age; And Sexual Health; Community-Based Hiv Research; Gender; Hiv Prevention; Immigration And Sexual Health; Qualitative Methods; Sexual Health; Youth

$253,060

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Liviana Calzavara and Ted Myers: 49 shared papers
Saara Greene and Angela Kaida: 44 shared papers
Marilou Gagnon and Adrian Guta: 35 shared papers
Angela Kaida and Sophie Patterson: 24 shared papers
Saara Greene and Sophie Patterson: 12 shared papers
Liviana Calzavara and Amrita Daftary: 11 shared papers
Darrell Tan and Bertrand Lebouché: 10 shared papers
Adrian Guta and Alexander McClelland: 9 shared papers
Michael Orsini and Jennifer Kilty: 8 shared papers
Marilou Gagnon and Martin French: 7 shared papers
Liviana Calzavara and Bertrand Lebouché: 6 shared papers
Amrita Daftary and Bertrand Lebouché: 6 shared papers
Marilou Gagnon and Alexander McClelland: 6 shared papers
Alexander McClelland and Martin French: 6 shared papers
Adrian Guta and Martin French: 5 shared papers
Saara Greene and Marilou Gagnon: 4 shared papers
Liviana Calzavara and Darrell Tan: 4 shared papers
Amrita Daftary and Darrell Tan: 4 shared papers
Michael Orsini and Marilou Gagnon: 4 shared papers
Michael Orsini and Adrian Guta: 4 shared papers
Michael Orsini and Suzanne Hindmarch: 4 shared papers
Marilou Gagnon and Angela Kaida: 4 shared papers
Marilou Gagnon and Sophie Patterson: 4 shared papers
Angela Kaida and Notisha Massaquoi: 4 shared papers
Adrian Guta and Ted Myers: 4 shared papers
Patrick O'Byrne and Darrell Tan: 3 shared papers
Liviana Calzavara and Laura Bisaillon: 3 shared papers
Amrita Daftary and Laura Bisaillon: 3 shared papers
Marilou Gagnon and Suzanne Hindmarch: 3 shared papers
Bertrand Lebouché and Laura Bisaillon: 3 shared papers
Laura Bisaillon and Chris Sanders: 3 shared papers
Patrick O'Byrne and Marilou Gagnon: 2 shared papers
Amrita Daftary and Ted Myers: 2 shared papers
Viviane Namaste and Alexander McClelland: 2 shared papers
Saara Greene and Patrick O'Byrne: 1 shared paper
Saara Greene and Jennifer Kilty: 1 shared paper
Saara Greene and Viviane Namaste: 1 shared paper
Saara Greene and Ciann Wilson: 1 shared paper
Saara Greene and Suzanne Hindmarch: 1 shared paper
Saara Greene and Notisha Massaquoi: 1 shared paper
Saara Greene and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Saara Greene and Chris Sanders: 1 shared paper
Patrick O'Byrne and Jennifer Kilty: 1 shared paper
Patrick O'Byrne and Viviane Namaste: 1 shared paper
Patrick O'Byrne and Ciann Wilson: 1 shared paper
Patrick O'Byrne and Notisha Massaquoi: 1 shared paper
Patrick O'Byrne and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Patrick O'Byrne and Chris Sanders: 1 shared paper
Darrell Tan and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Michael Orsini and Ciann Wilson: 1 shared paper
Michael Orsini and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Jennifer Kilty and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Marilou Gagnon and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Viviane Namaste and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Fiona Webster and Stella Ng: 1 shared paper
Fiona Webster and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Angela Kaida and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Adrian Guta and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Ciann Wilson and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Suzanne Hindmarch and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Notisha Massaquoi and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Alexander McClelland and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Stella Ng and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Ted Myers and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Martin French and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper
Sophie Patterson and Laura Bisaillon: 1 shared paper

Department of Health & Society
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
Epidemiology Division
Nursing Sciences
Department of Family Medicine
Department of Health Sciences
School of Social Work
Other

1 shared papers, latest 2022

Martin French

Milieux

1 shared papers, latest 2024

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