Main Research Areas:
Health equity, health promotion, health policy, queer heath, housing, aging, access to primary care, gender-based analysis, sociology
Biography:
Jacqueline Gahagan, PhD, is a full professor and a medical sociologist working in the areas of mixed methods health promotion and health policy research. Specifically, Dr. Gahagan uses gender-based and intersectional analyses to understand the impacts of health promotion interventions aimed at addressing health inequities faced by marginalized populations, including LGBTQ populations and populations affected by HIV, HCV and other STBBIs. Dr. Gahagan is the Co-Director of the Atlantic Interdisciplinary Research Network: Social Behavioral Aspects of HIV and HCV (AIRN) which is an Atlantic regional network of over 250 researchers, policy makers, and community-based service providers. Dr. Gahagan will assist with data analysis and will use the AIRN network to help with recruitment and knowledge translation on the current research project.
Selected Works:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6483-7916
Findings of our SSHRC-funded Older LGBT Canadians and Housing Study can be found here.
Bryson, M., Rail, G., Taylor, E., Boschman, L., Hart, T., Gahagan, J., & Ristock, J. (2020). Chorégraphies difficiles dans les « Marges du cancer ». Minorités sexuelles et/ou genrées et incommensurabilité des savoirs biographiques et biomédicaux. In A. Alexandrin & A. Meidani (Eds.), Cancers, masculinités, féminités. Toulouse: Éditions Érès.
Subirana-Malaret, M*., Gahagan, J., & Parker, R. (2019). Intersectionality and sex and gender-based analyses as promising approaches in addressing intimate partner violence treatment programs among LGBT couples: A scoping review. Cogent Social Sciences, 5:1, doi: 10.1080/23311886.2019.1644982
Gahagan, J., & Subriana-Malaret, M. (2018). Improving pathways to primary health care among LGBTQ populations and health care providers: Key findings from Nova Scotia, Canada. International Journal for Equity in Health. 17(76). doi:10.1186/s12939-018-0786-0
