"Public health systems are threatened by the incursion of publicly funded corporate providers" A vital session on Canadian healthcare.

🧵Our latest article is now published in Critical Criminology. Ping Lam Ip Walter DeKeseredy. We read 292 research articles about sexual assault in higher education. What we found is worrisome but not surprising. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Another surgeon is suing the doctor who is AHS head of otolaryngology in Edmonton, which never sent my husband the contract for the ear, nose and throat surgeon position he successfully applied for when a committee recommended him be hired. thetyee.ca/News/2024/11/1…

🧵In light of the conservations we are having about chronic back pain on here.... Here is an article about the unintended consequences of restrictive opioid laws in the wake of the ongoing crisis. This is open access, some bad things happened! link.springer.com/article/10.118…

#PLOSMentalHlth: dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa… We looked at nurses, mental health, and the criminal prosecution of a nurse error. Highly publicizing these cases can have a broader negative impact on nurses' mental health.

West Virginia, which has the highest #obesity rate in the U.S., gave #Ozempic to teachers and state employees at no cost. It worked. But, when the program became too popular, it was discontinued, and weights soared again, by @SarahZhang theatlantic.com/health/archive… via The Atlantic Health

Alberta health authority rejected $240K proposal to resolve orthopedic surgery disruption, documents show Doctors say more than 1,000 patients affected by disruption, which still isn't settled cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

🧵The first paper from our project on viral illness in Alberta has been published Dr. Michelle Maroto, Amy Kaler and I find that for many working parents balancing persistent circulation of sickness is untenable, and many have reached a point of resignation. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Reminder: It is also under the Smith's UCP government that opioid deaths have increased 200% from 2019 (626) to 2023 (1874). The incomplete 2024 number (964 from Jan to Oct) is still higher than the 2019 one.

I need people to understand how difficult it is to get an NIH grant. You spend months writing a proposal, following strict guidelines that include a detailed multiyear budget, bios of everyone on your team, plans for participant safety & ethical conduct. Then you send it off -1/n

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🧵Five years today since COVID-19 began and we continue debating remote work in Canada. In my new article in Canadian Review of Sociology, I find access to remote options can be hugely beneficial. But we still just want to be back to "normal." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Yesterday WVU Mountaineers held a celebration for authors who published in the The Conversation U.S. / The Conversation Canada. An article Ping Lam Ip, Pat DeKeseredy and I wrote to debunk Danielle Smith 's claims about Alberta's "treatment" model was featured. University of Alberta

Skating on Thin Ice by Walter DeKeseredy at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Toronto! Published by University of Toronto Press Support Canadian writing and publishing.

How unfortunate to be entering a period of mass groundbreaking drug development (MRNA, GLP1, HIV, diabetes) at the same time as increased public skepticism and government cuts to public health. Think of what we could do. nytimes.com/2025/06/20/hea…

The Edmonton region has hit an all-time high in opioid related deaths. Danielle Smith claimed less than a year ago that The Alberta Recovery Model was a success We wrote about why her statements are misleading in October 2024 People will continue to die theconversation.com/drop-in-drug-p…

I am excited to share with you all that I have been awarded the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. The scholarship was created with the purpose of attracting and retaining world-class doctoral students who display exceptional scholarly achievements and also leadership qualities

Similarly, almost 70% of the 2.1 billion paid through the eight SSHRC programs went to projects that were NOT about any form of social inequality or injustice.

I'm excited to share with you all that my husband, Dr. Daniel O'Brien, has taken an ENT position at the University of Manitoba where he will also serve as associate professor. Daniel specializes in complex head and neck surgery. Wab Kinew another doctor is on the way.