A5072507150- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Hepatitis C virus research
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- Hepatitis B Virus Studies
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Physical Activity and Health
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Leadership, Behavior, and Decision-Making Studies
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Infection Control in Healthcare
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
Dalhousie University
2019-2023
Macquarie University
2016-2022
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2015-2021
Queen's University
2019
McGill University
2017-2019
Committee on Publication Ethics
2019
University of Bradford
2016
Nottingham City Hospital
2015
St. John's University
2014
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging arbovirus of the Flaviviridae family. Although ZIKV infection typically mild and self-limiting in healthy adults, has been associated with neurological symptoms such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, a causal link established between fetal microcephaly during pregnancy. These risks, magnitude ongoing pandemic, have created urgent need for development animal models to study immune response infection. Previous primarily focused on pathogenesis immunocompromised mice....
Abstract Individuals infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) are at high risk of developing progressive liver disease, including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). How HCV infection causes destruction has been significant interest for many years, apoptosis proposed as one operative mechanism. In this study, we employed a tissue culture-adapted strain (JFH1 T ) to test effects on induction programmed cell death (PCD) in Huh-7.5 cells. We found that reduced the proliferation rate...
Public health initiatives aim to improve outcomes for populations by preventing disease and ill-health consequences of environmental hazards natural or human-made disasters. Whilst public have been used successfully modify behaviours chronic diseases, many targeting reduced dementia risk in older adults suffer from conceptual statistical flaws that greatly limit their usefulness. The limited success modifying lifestyle factors has led us fall short building a successful roadmap reduction....
Understanding human mobility within urban settings is fundamental for and transport planning. Travel demand modeling planning typically rely on data that are collected from large-scale household travel surveys (i.e., origin–destination surveys) compiled into single- or multiple-day diaries. The laborious task of collecting these has left traditional methods with numerous limitations, resulting in significant trade-offs regard to accuracy, sample size, study duration, while also being...
The aim of this work was to assess the feasibility and effect applying a nationally representative highly disaggregated food costing measure across Canada, through novel application web-scraping technology methods National Nutritious Food Basket (NNFB). Further, study tested hypothesis that product-matched digital NNFB (dNNFB) correlates with existing market basket measures quantified any differences in costs. This an observational cross-sectional using web scraped price data collected...
Health care-associated hepatitis C virus outbreaks from contaminated medication vials continue to be reported even though most practitioners deny reusing needles or syringes. The hypothesis was that when caring for virus-infected patients, healthcare providers may inadvertently contaminate the vial diaphragm and subsequent access with sterile syringes can transfer into medication, where it remains stable in sufficient quantities infect patients.A parallel-arm lab study (n = 9) performed...
Abstract Background Pricing policies have been shown to be an effective lever for promoting healthier dietary choices in consumer food environments. It is not yet well understood how pricing can used encourage substitute purchases. The aim of the study was assess effect a retailer-led relative intervention on weekly purchases targeted snack foods and beverages. Methods This ecological analysis real-world large tertiary hospital environment setting urban Canada, comprised four retail outlets:...
Within healthcare, the limited success of deficit based approaches in improving patient safety has led to an increasing focus on ‘how things go right most time’. Positive deviance, asset approach, learns from those who demonstrate exceptional performance despite facing similar constraints as others. This study applies positive deviance approach generate hypotheses about abstract behaviours and concrete strategies that staff positively deviant elderly medical wards use deliver exceptionally...
Executive summary A reliable and affordable supply of energy is a fundamental component to vibrant economy. As major source commodities, including significant known reserves low carbon emission sources, Australia well positioned the world’s future needs. In order for that occur, needs examine all its options. The Government released Draft Energy White paper in November 2011. CEDA considers this an opportunity should not miss ensuring only develops resources national economic gain but also...
Healthcare organizations engage in continuous quality improvement to improve performance and value-for-performance, but the pathway change is often rooted challenging way things are “normally” done. In an effort propel system-wide support healthy eating, Nova Scotia Health developed implemented a eating policy as benchmark create food environment supportive of health. This article describes its role process. The policy, health promotion, sets standard for applies stakeholders both inside...
Introduction Poor diet is a leading preventable risk for the global burden of non-communicable disease. Robust measurement needed to determine effect COVID-19 on dietary intakes and consumer purchasing, given widespread changes food environments economic precarity. The research objectives are as follows: (1) describe foods, beverages nutrients concern during pandemic; (2) quantify change in compared with prepandemic, previously captured provincial samples population-representative 2015...
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) can cause acute and chronic infection that is associated with considerable liver-related morbidity mortality. In recent years, there has been a shift in the treatment paradigm discovery approval of agents target specific proteins vital for viral replication. We employed cell culture-adapted strain HCV human hepatoma-derived cells lines to test effects our novel small-molecule compound (AO13) on HCV. Virus inhibition was tested by analyzing RNA replication, protein...
result, interventions included appointing a departmental representative, collecting data for six months with regular feed-back to the department along periodic discussions on progress and improvement plan.After intervention, repeat tests ordered by decreased 1.5 (compared an average 1.6 in other departments).Conclusion: Awareness of phenomenon excessive use routine laboratory led development implementation quantitative method estimate rate repeated compare across departments...