Student Research Day – March 2025 Community Wellbeing and Public Health:

Themes from Community Engagements Across Canada

Ella Hunter recently presented Public Health Governance research she participated in at St Francis Xavier University’s Student Research Day 2025. Ella’s work focused on analysis of focus group participant responses on community wellness and public health, as well as data extraction of literature on Canadian’s experiences with public health from 2019-2024. She had a very busy evening and won the Service Learning prize for her poster presentation!

References

1) Aylsworth, Laura, Terra Menca, Éve Dubé, Fabienne Labbé, Michelle Driedger, Karen Benzies, Noni E. MacDonald, Janice Graham, and Shannon E. MacDonald. “A Qualitative Investigation of Facilitators and Barriers to Accessing COVID-19 Vaccines among Racialized and Indigenous Peoples in Canada” 18, no. 6 (2022): 2129827. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2022.2129827.

Capurro, Gabriela, Ryan Maier, Jordan Tustin, Cynthia G. Jardine, and S. Michelle Driedger. “‘Stay Home and Stay Safe… but Maybe You Can Have Somebody over’: Public Perceptions of Official COVID-19 Messages during the 2020 Holiday Season in Canada.” Journal of Communication in Healthcare 16, no. 3 (2023): 279–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538068.2022.2138243.

Dubé, Ève, Marie-Pierre Renaud, Marie-Claude Lyonnais, Catherine Pelletier, and Christopher Fletcher. “« Gardez le vaccin au Sud »: Mieux comprendre l’hésitation à la vaccination contre la COVID 19 au Nunavik.” Anthropologie et Sociétés 46, no. 3 (2022): 53–72. https://doi.org/10.7202/1098663ar.

Dubé, Ève, Maude Dionne, Catherine Pelletier, Denis Hamel, and Souleymane Gadio. “COVID-19 Vaccination Attitudes and Intention among Quebecers during the First and Second Waves of the Pandemic: Findings from Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys.” Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics 17, no. 11 (2021): 3922–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2021.1947096.

Guay, Mireille, Aubrey Maquiling, Ruoke Chen, Valérie Lavergne, Donalyne-Joy Baysac, Ève Dubé, Shannon E. MacDonald, S. Michelle Driedger, and Nicolas L. Gilbert. “Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination in Canada: Results from the Cross-Sectional Canadian Community Health Survey.” Canadian Medical Association Open Access Journal 11, no. 6 (2023): E1075–82. https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20230026.

Henderson, Julie, Paul R. Ward, Emma Tonkin, Samantha B. Meyer, Heath Pillen, Dean McCullum, Barbara Toson, Trevor Webb, John Coveney, and Annabelle Wilson. “Developing and Maintaining Public Trust during and Post-COVID-19: Can We Apply a Model Developed for Responding to Food Scares?” Frontiers in Public Health 8 (2020): 369. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00369.

Lowe, Maya, Shawn Harmon, Ksenia Kholina, Rachel Parker, and Janice Graham. “Public Health Communication: Consistency, Accuracy, and Community Engagement during the COVID-19 Pandemic” 113 (November 3, 2022): 34–45. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1639023/v1.

MacDonald, Noni E., Jeannette Comeau, Ève Dubé, Janice Graham, Margo Greenwood, Shawn Harmon, Janet McElhaney, C. Meghan McMurtry, Alan Middleton, and Audrey Steenbeek. “Royal Society of Canada COVID-19 Report: Enhancing COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance in Canada.” Facets 6, no. 1 (2021): 1184–1246. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/facets-2021-0037.

Malo, Benjamin, Ève Dubé, Maude Dionne, and Fabienne Labbé. Perceptions et comportements de personnes âgées de 60 ans et plus par rapport à la COVID-19. Montréal, Québec: Institut national de santé publique du Québec, 2020. https://www.inspq.qc.ca/sites/default/files/publications/3068-perceptions-comportements-60-ans-et-plus-covid19.pdf.

Manca, Terra, Robin M. Humble, Laura Aylsworth, Eunah Cha, Sarah E. Wilson, Samantha B. Meyer, Devon Greyson, Manish Sadarangani, Jeanna Parsons Leigh, and Shannon E. MacDonald. “‘We Need to Protect Each Other’: COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions and Concerns among Racialized Minority and Indigenous Peoples in Canada.” Social Science & Medicine 313 (2022): 115400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115400.

MacKenzie, Nicole E., Perri R. Tutelman, Christine T. Chambers, Jennifer A. Parker, Noni E. MacDonald, C. Meghan McMurtry, Pierre Pluye, Vera Granikov, Anna Taddio, and Melanie Barwick. “Understanding Parents’ Use of a Knowledge Translation Tool to Manage Children’s Vaccination Pain.” Pain Reports 6, no. 1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1097/PR9.0000000000000907.

McKinnon, Britt, Caroline Quach, Ève Dubé, Cat Tuong Nguyen, and Kate Zinszer. “Social Inequalities in COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Uptake for Children and Adolescents in Montreal, Canada.” Vaccine 39, no. 49 (2021): 7140–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.10.077.

Nascimento, Lena G., Ève Dubé, Kathleen E. Burns, Patrick Brown, Michael Calnan, Paul R. Ward, Eric Filice, Hoda Herati, Nnenna AU Ike, and Bobbi Rotolo. “Informing Efforts beyond Tailored Promotional Campaigns by Understanding Contextual Factors Shaping Vaccine Hesitancy among Equity-Deserving Populations in Canada: An Exploratory Qualitative Study.” International Journal for Equity in Health 22, no. 1 (2023): 209. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-02025-y.

Parsons Leigh, Jeanna, Emily A. FitzGerald, Stephana J. Moss, Rebecca Brundin-Mather, Alexandra Dodds, Henry T. Stelfox, Ève Dubé, et al. “Factors Affecting Hesitancy toward COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Doses in Canada: A Cross-National Survey.” Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2023, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-023-00823-z.

Steenbeek, Audrey, Allyson Gallant, Noni E. MacDonald, Janet Curran, and Janice E. Graham. “Nova Scotia Strong: Why Communities Joined to Embrace COVID-19 Public Health Measures.” Canadian Journal of Public Health 113, no. 1 (December 1, 2022): 4–13. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-022-00667-z.

Zhu, Patricia, Ovidiu Tatar, Ben Haward, Veronica Steck, Gabrielle Griffin-Mathieu, Samara Perez, Eve Dubé, Gregory Zimet, and Zeev Rosberger. “Examining an Altruism-Eliciting Video Intervention to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Intentions in Younger Adults: A Qualitative Assessment Using the Realistic Evaluation Framework” 11, no. 3 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11030628.

2) Bhalla, Manvi, Helana Boutros, and Samantha B. Meyer. “Aunties, WhatsApp, and ‘Haldi Da Doodh’: South Asian Communities’ Persepctives on Improving COVID-19 Public Health Communciation in Ontario, Canada.” Canadian Journal of Public Health 113 (2022): 546–53. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-022-00712-x.

Dubé, Eve, Marie-Pierre Renaud, Marie-Claude Lyonnais, Catherine Pelletier, and Christopher Fletcher. “‘The Needle Is Already Ready to Go’: Communities’ and Health Care Professionals’ Perceptions of Routine Vaccination in Nunavik, Canada” 83, no. 1 (2023). https://doi.org/10.7202/1098663ar.

MacDonald, Noni E, and Eve Dubé. “Promouvoir la résilience vaccinale à l’ère de l’information numérique.” Relevé des maladies transmissibles au Canada 46, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 22–27. https://doi.org/10.14745/ccdr.v46i01a04f.

MacDonald, Noni E, Shawn Harmon, and Janice E Graham. “Examen déontologique des programmes d’immunisation de la santé publique au Canada.” Relevé des maladies transmissibles au Canada 47, no. 04 (May 7, 2021): 259–64. https://doi.org/10.14745/ccdr.v47i04a09f.

3) Bhalla, Manvi, Helana Boutros, and Samantha B. Meyer. “Aunties, WhatsApp, and ‘Haldi Da Doodh’: South Asian Communities’ Persepctives on Improving COVID-19 Public Health Communciation in Ontario, Canada.” Canadian Journal of Public Health 113 (2022): 546–53. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-022-00712-x.

Ike, Nnenna, Kathleen E. Burns, Helena Nascimento, Eric Filice, Paul R. Ward, Hoda Herati, Bobbi Rotolo, Gustavo S. Betini, Christopher M. Perlman, and Samantha B. Meyer. “Examining Factors Impacting Acceptance of COVID-19 Countermeasures among Structurally Marginalised Canadians.” Global Public Health 18, no. 1 (2023): 2263525. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2023.2263525.

Kholina, Ksenia, Shawn H. E. Harmon, and Janice E. Graham. “An Equitable Vaccine Delivery System: Lessons from the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout in Canada.” PLOS ONE 17, no. 12 (December 30, 2022): e0279929. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279929.

Pringle, Wendy, Sukhmeet Singh Sachal, Gurvir Singh Dhutt, Mary Kestler, Ève Dubé, and Julie A. Bettinger. “Public Health Community Engagement with Asian Populations in British Columbia during COVID-19: Towards a Culture-Centered Approach.” Canadian Journal of Public Health 113, no. 1 (December 1, 2022): 14–23. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-022-00699-5.

Sebring, Jennifer C. H., Gabriela Capurro, Christine Kelly, Cynthia G. Jardine, Jordan Tustin, and S. Michelle Driedger. “‘None of It Was Especially Easy’: Improving COVID-19 Vaccine Equity for People with Disabilities.” Canadian Journal of Public Health 113, no. 6 (December 1, 2022): 887–97. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-022-00621-z

4) Aboueid, Stephanie, Samantha B Meyer, James R Wallace, Shreya Mahajan, Teeyaa Nur, and Ashok Chaurasia. “Use of Symptom Checkers for COVID-19-Related Symptoms among University Students: A Qualitative Study.” BMJ Innovations 7, no. 2 (April 1, 2021): 253. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjinnov-2020-000498.

Bhalla, Manvi, Helana Boutros, and Samantha B. Meyer. “Aunties, WhatsApp, and ‘Haldi Da Doodh’: South Asian Communities’ Persepctives on Improving COVID-19 Public Health Communciation in Ontario, Canada.” Canadian Journal of Public Health 113 (2022): 546–53. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-022-00712-x.

Dubé, Eve, Fabienne Labbé, Benjamin Malo, Terra Manca, Laura Aylsworth, S. Michelle Driedger, Janice Graham, Devon Greyson, Noni MacDonald, and Samantha B. Meyer. “‘I Don’t Think There’s a Point for Me to Discuss It with My Patients’: Exploring Health Care Providers’ Views and Behaviours Regarding COVID-19 Vaccination.” Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics 18, no. 5 (2022): 2088970. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2022.2088970.

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