Martin French, Concordia University

Research

data flows games & quasi-gambling personal information economy privacy surveillance studies HIV surveillance HIV criminalization participatory praxis

Latest papers

'It's Primarily Around Their Viral Load': Public Health Decision-Making and HIV Risk Assemblages in Ontario, Canada.
Sociology of health & illness · 2026
Distinguishing Persistent Versus Episodic Clusters of At-Risk Respondents on the Problem Gambling Severity Index.
Journal of gambling studies · 2025
A portrait of online gambling: a look at a transformation amid a pandemic.
Harm reduction journal · 2025

All 10 publications

Latest funding

How to Resist Addiction by Design (H2RABD): Cultivating Critical Play for a Gamblified Era
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$386,409
ShaP/Ring gambling in the community of Kahnawà:ke: an ongoing dialogue.
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$592,876
Experiences of the Social Organization of HIV-Related Public Health Risks
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
$29,540

All 12 grants and awards

10 publications.

01

'It's Primarily Around Their Viral Load': Public Health Decision-Making and HIV Risk Assemblages in Ontario, Canada.

Daroya E, French M, Hastings C, Krüsi A, Molldrem S, Owino M, Peck R, Wah A, McClelland A

Sociology of health & illness2026

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70220 PMID: 42333019

02

Distinguishing Persistent Versus Episodic Clusters of At-Risk Respondents on the Problem Gambling Severity Index.

Murch WS, Scheurich R, Monson E, French M, Kairouz S

Journal of gambling studies2025

DOI: 10.1007/s10899-025-10386-y PMID: 40338426

03

A portrait of online gambling: a look at a transformation amid a pandemic.

Kairouz S, Savard AC, Murch WS, Dixon MR, Martin NB, Brodeur M, Dauphinais S, Ferland F, Hamel D, Dufour M, French M, Monson E, Van Mourik V, Morvannou A

Harm reduction journal2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12954-025-01265-1 PMID: 40770758

04

"It would Never have Happened Without the Pandemic": Understanding the Lived Experience of Individuals who Increased Their Online Gambling Participation.

Savard AC, Kairouz S, Nadeau-Tremblay J, Brodeur M, Ferland F, French M, Morvannou A, Blanchette-Martin N, Dufour M, VanMourik V, Monson E

Journal of gambling studies2025

DOI: 10.1007/s10899-024-10336-0 PMID: 39115755

05

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 citations

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-023-00843-9

06

Using machine learning to retrospectively predict self-reported gambling problems in Quebec.

Murch WS, Kairouz S, Dauphinais S, Picard E, Costes JM, French M

Addiction (Abingdon, England)2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/add.16179 PMID: 36880253

07

COVID-19, public health, and the politics of prevention.

Mykhalovskiy E, French M

Sociology of health & illness2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13192 PMID: 33156541

08

Consent and criminalisation concerns over phylogenetic analysis of surveillance data.

Chung C, Khanna N, Cardell B, Spieldenner A, Strub S, McClelland A, French M, Gagnon M, Guta A

The lancet. HIV2019

DOI: 10.1016/s2352-3018(19)30138-9 PMID: 31272660

09

The HIV self-testing debate: where do we stand?

Gagnon M, French M, Hébert Y

BMC international health and human rights2018

DOI: 10.1186/s12914-018-0146-6 PMID: 29347929

10

The harms of HIV criminalization: responding to the 'association of HIV diagnosis rates and laws criminalizing HIV exposure in the United States'.

McClelland A, French M, Mykhalovskiy E, Gagnon M, Manning E, Peck R, Clarke C, McCaskell T

AIDS (London, England)2017

DOI: 10.1097/qad.0000000000001570 PMID: 28746088

How to Resist Addiction by Design (H2RABD): Cultivating Critical Play for a Gamblified Era

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: French, Martin A.

$386,409

ShaP/Ring gambling in the community of Kahnawà:ke: an ongoing dialogue.

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Kairouz, Sylvia

Keywords: Awareness; Gambling Harm And Problems; Governance; Indigenous Community; Prevention; Self-Determination; Sharing Circles; Survey

$592,876

Experiences of the Social Organization of HIV-Related Public Health Risks

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: McClelland, Alexander

Keywords: HIV; Public health legislation; Risk; Qualitative research; Institutional ethnography

$29,540

Addiction Detection for a Diverse Canada: Developing socially responsible machine learning models to minimize gambling harms.

SupervisorCIHR2021CIHR Fellowship

Principal investigators: Murch, William S

Keywords: Detection; Discrimination; Gambling Disorder; Machine Learning; Marginalization; Medical Inequality; Online Gambling; Prevention; Public Health; Treatment Disparity

$90,000

Privacy Pedagogies for Digital Play: The Gamification of the Personal Information Economy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: French, Martin A.

Keywords: data flows; games & quasi-gambling; personal information economy; privacy

$66,036

Privacy Pedagogies for Digital Play: The Gamification of the Personal Information Economy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: French, Martin A.

Keywords: data flows; games & quasi-gambling; personal information economy; privacy

$32,518

ShaP/Ring gambling in the community of Kahnawà:ke

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Kairouz, Sylvia

Keywords: gambling; Indigenous; problem gambling; electronic gaming machines (EGMS); qualitative; quantitative research; survey

$24,904

Centering Lived and Living Experiences of HIV Surveillance

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Connection Grants

Principal investigators: French, Martin A.

Keywords: surveillance studies; HIV surveillance; HIV criminalization; participatory praxis; surveillance society; privilege and marginalization

$27,149

E-GAMES Canada : la monétisation des jeux à l'ère des technologies mobiles et du numérique

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Kairouz, Sylvia; Savard, Annie-Claude

Keywords: Dépendance; Enquêtes; Expériences Subjectives; Internet; Jeux De Hasard Et D'Argent; Jeux Mobiles; Représentations Sociales; Sociologie Du Temps Et De L'Espace; Technologies Mobiles

$283,051

Responsible Gaming in the Digital Era

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: French, Martin

Keywords: (1) gambling; (2) gaming; (3) risk; (4) risky consumption; (5) sociology; (6) digital technology; (7) surveillance; (8) big data

$50,685

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

Saara Greene and Angela Kaida: 27 shared papers
Sylvia Kairouz and Annie-Claude Savard: 9 shared papers
Sylvia Kairouz and Magaly Brodeur: 7 shared papers
Magaly Brodeur and Annie-Claude Savard: 7 shared papers
Magaly Brodeur and Eva Monson: 6 shared papers
Sylvia Kairouz and Eva Monson: 5 shared papers
Angela Kaida and Notisha Massaquoi: 4 shared papers
Sylvia Kairouz and Martin French: 4 shared papers
Notisha Massaquoi and Maureen Owino: 4 shared papers
Eric Mykhalovskiy and Alexander McClelland: 3 shared papers
Eric Mykhalovskiy and Martin French: 3 shared papers
Alexander McClelland and Martin French: 3 shared papers
Annie-Claude Savard and Eva Monson: 3 shared papers
Eva Monson and Martin French: 3 shared papers
Michael Orsini and Adrian Guta: 2 shared papers
Marilou Gagnon and Martin French: 2 shared papers
Adrian Guta and Martin French: 2 shared papers
Magaly Brodeur and Martin French: 2 shared papers
Alexander McClelland and Maureen Owino: 2 shared papers
Annie-Claude Savard and Martin French: 2 shared papers
Saara Greene and Patrick O'Byrne: 1 shared paper
Saara Greene and Michael Orsini: 1 shared paper
Saara Greene and Jennifer Kilty: 1 shared paper
Saara Greene and Viviane Namaste: 1 shared paper
Saara Greene and Adrian Guta: 1 shared paper
Saara Greene and Eric Mykhalovskiy: 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 Martin French: 1 shared paper
Patrick O'Byrne and Michael Orsini: 1 shared paper
Patrick O'Byrne and Jennifer Kilty: 1 shared paper
Patrick O'Byrne and Marilou Gagnon: 1 shared paper
Patrick O'Byrne and Viviane Namaste: 1 shared paper
Patrick O'Byrne and Angela Kaida: 1 shared paper
Patrick O'Byrne and Ciann Wilson: 1 shared paper
Patrick O'Byrne and Suzanne Hindmarch: 1 shared paper
Patrick O'Byrne and Martin French: 1 shared paper
Michael Orsini and Jennifer Kilty: 1 shared paper
Michael Orsini and Viviane Namaste: 1 shared paper
Michael Orsini and Ciann Wilson: 1 shared paper
Michael Orsini and Suzanne Hindmarch: 1 shared paper
Michael Orsini and Martin French: 1 shared paper
Jennifer Kilty and Martin French: 1 shared paper
Marilou Gagnon and Eric Mykhalovskiy: 1 shared paper
Marilou Gagnon and Marilou Gagnon: 1 shared paper
Viviane Namaste and Martin French: 1 shared paper
Angela Kaida and Martin French: 1 shared paper
Eric Mykhalovskiy and Marilou Gagnon: 1 shared paper
Ciann Wilson and Martin French: 1 shared paper
Suzanne Hindmarch and Martin French: 1 shared paper
Notisha Massaquoi and Martin French: 1 shared paper
Alexander McClelland and Marilou Gagnon: 1 shared paper
Maureen Owino and Martin French: 1 shared paper
Marilou Gagnon and Martin French: 1 shared paper

Sociology
Criminology
Nursing Sciences
Public and population health
School of Social Work
Obstétrique et gynécologie
Psychology, social and behavioural aspects
Other

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

Eva Monson

Public and population health

3 shared papers, latest 2025

Adrian Guta

School of Social Work

2 shared papers, latest 2024

Marilou Gagnon

English Language and Literature

2 shared papers, latest 2018

Magaly Brodeur

Obstétrique et gynécologie

2 shared papers, latest 2025

Marilou Gagnon

Nursing Sciences

2 shared papers, latest 2018

Notisha Massaquoi

Health and Society

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Maureen Owino

Centre for Urban Health Solutions

1 shared papers, latest 2026

Marilou Gagnon

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

1 shared papers, latest 2017

Michael Orsini

Political Studies

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Viviane Namaste

Simone de Beauvoir Institute

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Patrick O'Byrne

Nursing Sciences

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Ciann Wilson

Psychology, social and behavioural aspects

1 shared papers, latest 2024

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: data flows Dear Professor French, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "'It's Primarily Around Their Viral Load': Public Health Decision-Making and HIV Risk Assemblages in Ontario, Canada." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "How to Resist Addiction by Design (H2RABD): Cultivating Critical Play for a Gamblified Era" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

Martin French

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

'It's Primarily Around Their Viral Load': Public Health Decision-Making and HIV Risk Assemblages in Ontario, Canada.

Distinguishing Persistent Versus Episodic Clusters of At-Risk Respondents on the Problem Gambling Severity Index.

A portrait of online gambling: a look at a transformation amid a pandemic.

"It would Never have Happened Without the Pandemic": Understanding the Lived Experience of Individuals who Increased Their Online Gambling Participation.

Criminal Code reform of HIV non-disclosure is urgently needed: Social science perspectives on the harms of HIV criminalization in Canada

Using machine learning to retrospectively predict self-reported gambling problems in Quebec.

COVID-19, public health, and the politics of prevention.

Consent and criminalisation concerns over phylogenetic analysis of surveillance data.

The HIV self-testing debate: where do we stand?

The harms of HIV criminalization: responding to the 'association of HIV diagnosis rates and laws criminalizing HIV exposure in the United States'.

How to Resist Addiction by Design (H2RABD): Cultivating Critical Play for a Gamblified Era

ShaP/Ring gambling in the community of Kahnawà:ke: an ongoing dialogue.

Experiences of the Social Organization of HIV-Related Public Health Risks

Addiction Detection for a Diverse Canada: Developing socially responsible machine learning models to minimize gambling harms.

Privacy Pedagogies for Digital Play: The Gamification of the Personal Information Economy

Privacy Pedagogies for Digital Play: The Gamification of the Personal Information Economy

ShaP/Ring gambling in the community of Kahnawà:ke

Centering Lived and Living Experiences of HIV Surveillance

E-GAMES Canada : la monétisation des jeux à l'ère des technologies mobiles et du numérique

Responsible Gaming in the Digital Era

Frequent collaborators

Sylvia Kairouz

Eva Monson

Eric Mykhalovskiy

Alexander McClelland

Adrian Guta

Annie-Claude Savard

Marilou Gagnon

Magaly Brodeur

Marilou Gagnon

Suzanne Hindmarch

Notisha Massaquoi

Saara Greene

Maureen Owino

Marilou Gagnon

Michael Orsini

Jennifer Kilty

Viviane Namaste

Angela Kaida

Patrick O'Byrne

Ciann Wilson