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Sonia Meerai
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Latest papers
Raising awareness of anti-fat stigma in healthcare through lived experience education: a continuing professional development pilot study.
BMC medical education · 2024
Impact of Intersecting Systems of Oppression on Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Among Those Who Identify as Women of Low Socioeconomic Status: Protocol for a Convergent Mixed Methods Study.
JMIR research protocols · 2021
Latest funding
- $59,677
Distinct Forms of Motivation to Challenge Systemic Racism: Origins and Consequences
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $49,269
The Work of Stories in the World
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
2 publications.
Raising awareness of anti-fat stigma in healthcare through lived experience education: a continuing professional development pilot study.
Heidebrecht C, Fierheller D, Martel S, Andrews A, Hollahan A, Griffin L, Meerai S, Lock R, Nabavian H, D'Silva C, Friedman M, Zenlea I
Impact of Intersecting Systems of Oppression on Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Among Those Who Identify as Women of Low Socioeconomic Status: Protocol for a Convergent Mixed Methods Study.
Stanimirovic A, Francis T, Cooper Reed A, Meerai S, Sutakovic O, Merritt R, Brent M, Rac V
Distinct Forms of Motivation to Challenge Systemic Racism: Origins and Consequences
Principal investigators: Kachanoff, Frank J.
Keywords: Social Psychology; Intergroup Relations; Motivation; Systemic Racism; Identity; Politics; Social (In)Equity
The Work of Stories in the World
Principal investigators: Rice, Carla M.
Keywords: Storywork; Multimedia/Digital Storytelling; Critical Arts-based Methods; Post-Philosophies; Indigenous Thought; Indigenous Research Methods; Research Creation; Critical Digital Research; Affective Impacts; Social Change; Transformational Change
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
- Michael Brent and Valeria Rac: 1 shared paper
- Michael Brent and Sonia Meerai: 1 shared paper
- Valeria Rac and Sonia Meerai: 1 shared paper
- Ian Zenlea and Sonia Meerai: 1 shared paper
- Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
- Pediatrics
- Other
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