
Leigha Comer, PhD
@leighacomer1
Sociologist & institutional ethnographer. Postdoc @WesternU. Chronic pain, opioids, public health, digital health. Mom of two.
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18-07-2016 03:34:58
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Really important research by Colin Hastings re: stigmatizing news stories of HIV criminalization and how these crime stories are perpetuated by conditions fostered by convergence journalism: Writing for digital news about HIV criminalization in Canada pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35129279/

Pls Chrystia Freeland Justin Trudeau Doug Ford John Tory help this young man badly injured in the fire at 828 Shaw that left 13 #Toronto families w/o homes. Byron's mother is in Chile, needs your help to get here #byronneedshismom: 828shawfirehelp.com

🧵🎉Thrilled to announce our 2.4M grant from SSHRC #PartnershipGrant, "Toward Democratization of Health: a sociological exploration of patient engagement in pain research"! Acronym PEPPR with co-Director Maria Hudspith Pain BC & 7 partner orgs @VPRWesternu Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing

Meet the team members: @RiceKath @EriMyk Joel Katz Dr Dr Abhimanyu Sud Daniel Z Buchman Dr. Katie Birnie Susana Caxaj Craig Dale Anna Zajacova @LeighChappy Andrew Pinto @helene_berman Norm Buckley Paula Rowland therese lane + post-doc's Leigha Comer, PhD & Dr. Kara Turcotte



There's 1 week left until the next CASPR webinar! Focused on methdologies, Fiona Webster, PhD Leigha Comer, PhD and Craig Dale will be presenting on #InstitutionalEthnography and #ChronicPain #Research. Check out the ad for more details. Register here: westernuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…


Thrilled to announce our 3rd webinar in the series Critical Approaches to Pain Scholarship (CASPR). Join us May 25th at 8:00 a.m. EST to hear from a brilliant line-up of speakers discussing arts-based and newly emerging methodologies. Register here: westernuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

New 📄 by Leigha Comer, PhD, Lorie Donelle RN PhD FCAN, Prof Jason Gilliland, Brad Hiebert, James Shelley, @anitarena, Jacob Shelley (Shelestowsky) 🇺🇦, Maxwell Smith, PhD in Frontiers in Digital Health investigates digital surveillance in COVID-19 Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing Centre for Health Equity and Social Inclusion 🔓 doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.…

Excited to be sharing this publication from my PhD research on barriers to accessing opioids for pain management that have emerged in the last two decades in Ontario (and elsewhere) due to opioid-related panic and policies intended to curb related harms. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📢Big News! 🩹Excited to announce the @canjpain Special Issue on Social and Health Inequities in Chronic Pain across the Lifespan, led by esteemed editors: Fiona Webster, PhD, Dr. Kara Turcotte, Leigha Comer, PhD, Dr Dr Abhimanyu Sud, and Joel Katz. Submission details 👉 tandfonline.com/journals/ucjp20

Be sure to visit poster #77 this afternoon where postdoc Laura Connoy, PhD will present the findings of our scoping review on #ChronicPain and marginalization. #CanadianPain24

