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Helene Berman
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Latest papers
Protection from "any kind of risk" - a qualitative study exploring young women's experiences of safer sex in Canada.
BMC women's health · 2026
Structural and construct validity of the Quality of Life Scale among Canadian women with histories of intimate partner violence.
Women's health (London, England) · 2022
Our roles are not at ease: The work of engaging a youth advisory council in a mental health services delivery organization.
Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2021
Latest funding
- $2,500,000
Child and youth refugee research coalition (CYRRC): using research to inform best practices for language, literacy, learning, social integration, and child and family wellbeing
SSHRC · 2017 · Co-investigator
- $1,371,511
Promoting Health Through Collaborative Engagement with Youth in Canada: Overcoming, Resisting, and Preventing Structural Violence
CIHR · 2011 · Nominated PI
- $10,000
The Influence of Structural and Systemic Violence on the Health of Children and Adolescents: Intersections among Gender, Race, and Class
CIHR · 2010 · Nominated PI
28 publications.
Protection from "any kind of risk" - a qualitative study exploring young women's experiences of safer sex in Canada.
Kennedy VL, Ford-Gilboe M, Zylak C, Webster F, Berman H, Rabie C, Rude H, Newman-Fogel S
Structural and construct validity of the Quality of Life Scale among Canadian women with histories of intimate partner violence.
Jaradat D, Ford-Gilboe M, Berman H, Wong C
Our roles are not at ease: The work of engaging a youth advisory council in a mental health services delivery organization.
Canas E, Wathen N, Berman H, Reaume-Zimmer P, Iyer SN
Correction to: A critical narrative inquiry to understand the impacts of an overdose prevention site on the lives of site users.
Oudshoorn A, Bouck MS, McCann M, Zendo S, Berman H, Banninga J, Le Ber MJ, Zendo Z
A critical narrative inquiry to understand the impacts of an overdose prevention site on the lives of site users.
Oudshoorn A, Sangster Bouck M, McCann M, Zendo S, Berman H, Banninga J, Le Ber MJ, Zendo Z
Spaces of Exclusion: Safety, Stigma, and Surveillance of Mothers Experiencing Homelessness.
Benbow S, Forchuk C, Berman H, Gorlick C, Ward-Griffin C
Mothering Without a Home: Internalized Impacts of Social Exclusion.
Benbow S, Forchuk C, Berman H, Gorlick C, Ward-Griffin C
Client or Volunteer? Understanding Neoliberalism and Neocolonialism Within International Volunteer Health Work.
St-Amant O, Ward-Griffin C, Berman H, Vainio-Mattila A
Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy: A Critical Discourse Analysis.
Benbow S, Gorlick C, Forchuk C, Ward-Griffin C, Berman H
Social Exclusion and Health: The Development of Nursing Knowledge.
Benbow S, Forchuk C, Gorlick C, Berman H, Ward-Griffin C
Child and youth refugee research coalition (CYRRC): using research to inform best practices for language, literacy, learning, social integration, and child and family wellbeing
Keywords: Syrian child refugees; youth refugees; refugee families; immigrants; services; resilience; language; literacy; learning; literacy; social integration; wellbeing
Promoting Health Through Collaborative Engagement with Youth in Canada: Overcoming, Resisting, and Preventing Structural Violence
Principal investigators: Berman, Helene A; Nicolaiff, Sarah; Damant, Dominique; Gonick, Marnina; Johnson, Holly; Richardson, Cathy L; Thurston, Wilfreda E
Keywords: Classism; Health; Participatory Action Research; Racism; Sexism; Structural Violence; Youth
The Influence of Structural and Systemic Violence on the Health of Children and Adolescents: Intersections among Gender, Race, and Class
Principal investigators: Berman, Helene A
Keywords: Aboriginal Youth; Children And Adolescents; Class; Gender; Health; Marginalized Youth; Participatory Action Research; Race; Systemic Violence; Violence
Violence in the Lives of Muslim Girls and Women
Principal investigators: Berman, Helene A
Keywords: Gender-Based Violence; Honour Crimes; Intersectionality; Muslim Girls And Women; Participatory Research
Violence in the lives of girls
Principal investigators: Berman, Helene A.
Keywords: violence; adolescents; social group membership; girls; immigrant youth; glbtt youth; youth with disabilities; aboriginal youth
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
- Marilyn Ford-Gilboe and Colleen Varcoe: 21 shared papers
- Cheryl Forchuk and Helene Berman: 11 shared papers
- Catherine Ward-Griffin and Cheryl Forchuk: 8 shared papers
- Catherine Ward-Griffin and Helene Berman: 8 shared papers
- Catherine Ward-Griffin and Oona St-Amant: 5 shared papers
- Marilyn Ford-Gilboe and Helene Berman: 4 shared papers
- Marilyn Ford-Gilboe and Carol Wong: 4 shared papers
- Marilyn Ford-Gilboe and Colleen Varcoe: 3 shared papers
- Colleen Varcoe and Helene Berman: 2 shared papers
- Marilyn Ford-Gilboe and Cheryl Forchuk: 1 shared paper
- Marilyn Ford-Gilboe and Fiona Webster: 1 shared paper
- Susan Rodger and Robin Mason: 1 shared paper
- Susan Rodger and Helene Berman: 1 shared paper
- Catherine Ward-Griffin and Blake Poland: 1 shared paper
- Catherine Ward-Griffin and Arja Vainio-Mattila: 1 shared paper
- Catherine Ward-Griffin and Cheryl Forchuk: 1 shared paper
- Colleen Varcoe and Helene Berman: 1 shared paper
- Cheryl Forchuk and Blake Poland: 1 shared paper
- Cheryl Forchuk and Oona St-Amant: 1 shared paper
- Cheryl Forchuk and Cheryl Forchuk: 1 shared paper
- Robin Mason and Helene Berman: 1 shared paper
- Blake Poland and Cheryl Forchuk: 1 shared paper
- Blake Poland and Helene Berman: 1 shared paper
- Oona St-Amant and Arja Vainio-Mattila: 1 shared paper
- Oona St-Amant and Helene Berman: 1 shared paper
- Arja Vainio-Mattila and Helene Berman: 1 shared paper
- Fiona Webster and Helene Berman: 1 shared paper
- Cheryl Forchuk and Helene Berman: 1 shared paper
- Helene Berman and Carol Wong: 1 shared paper
- Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing
- School of Nursing
- Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
- Other
Co-authors at Western University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Cheryl Forchuk
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing
11 shared papers, latest 2019
Catherine Ward-Griffin
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing
8 shared papers, latest 2019
Marilyn Ford-Gilboe
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Colleen Varcoe
School of Nursing
2 shared papers, latest 2013
Carol Wong
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Blake Poland
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Oona St-Amant
School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Arja Vainio-Mattila
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Fiona Webster
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Cheryl Forchuk
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Susan Rodger
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Colleen Varcoe
School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Robin Mason
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
1 shared papers, latest 2014
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