Publications

Publications authored by CHSPR faculty and staff from 2009 to the present are listed here. Older peer-reviewed publications are usually available from individual journals and can be searched for using PubMed. Older reports published by CHSPR (from 1973) are available from the UBC Library cIRcle database. If you cannot find a specific publication, please contact us.


Latest publications

Guo M, Mourad N, Karimuddin A, Sutherland J. Comparing Preoperative Healthcare Utilization Between Immigrants and Non-Immigrants Undergoing Emergency General Surgery in British Columbia. J Immigr Minor Health. 2026 Jan 12. doi: 10.1007/s10903-026-01847-6. Online ahead of print. Read more

Katz A, Aubrey-Bassler K, Aghajafari F, Fransoo G, Ivers NM, Kwong JC, Moineddin R, Nguyen L, Saj D, Taylor C, Upshur REG, Woodrow J, Wong ST, Xiong H, Aggarwal M. The impact of COVID-19 vaccine distribution channels on equity-deserving populations: a Canadian population-based cohort study using administrative data. BMC Public Health. 2026 Jan 9. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-24824-4. Online ahead of print. Read more

Buttar A, Hu N, Sobolev B, Kuromoto L, Jessri M. Alignment with Front-of-Package Labelling Policy and Risk of Hospitalization: Evidence from Canadian National Nutrition Survey Linked to Routinely Collected Health Administrative Databases. Am J Clin Nutr. 2026 Jan 8:101191. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2025.101191. Online ahead of print. Read more

Shuldiner J, Ragunathan A, Mohammed J, Khan A, Hare N, Meninato T, Haggerty J, Garber G, Reid RJ, Andiappan M, Martin D, Kaplan D, Kiran T, Hysong SJ, Wong ST, Zhao QJ, Sherlock C, Légaré F, Ivers N. Elevating an invisible role: co-designing solutions to optimize medical office assistants in primary care. BMC Prim Care. 2026 Jan 6. doi: 10.1186/s12875-025-03155-8. Online ahead of print. Read more

Giroux CM, Bush PL, Alkhaldi M, Talla PK, Couturier Y, Thomas A, Bussières A, Wong ST, Poitras ME, Ahmed S. Assessing healthcare organizations' readiness to implement a learning health system: questionnaire validation using a Delphi method. BMC Health Serv Res. 2025 Dec 29;25(1):1626. doi: 10.1186/s12913-025-13636-2. Read more

Zhao B, Cohen TR, Sutherland J, Meza R, Bhatti P, Murphy RA. Examining the associations between the food environment and dietary intake in British Columbia: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 2025 Dec 25;15(12):e109478. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-109478. Read more

Bond M, Beresford A, Noonan VK, Rotem-Kohavi N, Kwon BK, Liu G, Sutherland JM. Longitudinal healthcare utilization among traumatic spinal cord injury patients: a 20 year retrospective study using population-based data. BMC Health Serv Res. 2025 Dec 15. doi: 10.1186/s12913-025-13895-z. Online ahead of print. Read more

Yusuf FLA, Karim ME, Sutherland JM, Zhu F, Zhao Y, Marrie RA, Tremlett H. Injury Preceding the Classical Recognition of Multiple Sclerosis: A Population-Based Study. Ann Epidemiol. 2025 Dec 5:S1047-2797(25)00340-0. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2025.11.008. Online ahead of print. Read more

D'souza NA, Rao S, Marchand K, Davies M, Dryburgh NSJ, Radomski AD, Aggarwal P, Mulligan C, Stringer JE, Austin A, Edwards J, Leach MD. Redesigning mental health research systems from within: the role of peer-led co-production. Front Health Serv. 2025 Dec 2;5:1712015. doi: 10.3389/frhs.2025.1712015. eCollection 2025. Read more

Sutherland JM. Canada's Hospitals Under Stress: Is More Money the Only Answer? Healthc Policy. 2025 Nov;21(1):6-18. doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2025.27745. Read more

Goranitis I, Hayeems RZ, Smith HS, Buchanan J, Weymann D, Regier DA, Mackley MP, Scott RH, Hill SL, Chung BHY, Chung CCY, Best S, Baple EL, Stark Z. Determining the value of genomics in healthcare. Nat Med. 2025 Nov 27. doi: 10.1038/s41591-025-04061-3. Online ahead of print. Read more

Chen QJ, Mozaffari H, Ananthapavan J, Smith BT, Wong GWK, Jessri M. What is the effect of commercial food and non-alcoholic beverage marketing on the dietary intake of children and adolescents? Protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis with an equity lens. Syst Rev. 2025 Nov 26;14(1):238. doi: 10.1186/s13643-025-02978-x. Read more

Marchand K, Liu G, Hastings KG, Palis H, Mathias S, Sutherland JM, Barbic S. The multidimensional social ecological needs and service utilization patterns of youth using non-medical prescription opioids: an observational study of routinely collected data in a provincial integrated youth services initiative. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy. 2025 Nov 26;20(1):51. doi: 10.1186/s13011-025-00682-6. Read more

Turner AM, Taylor JO, Child CE, Regier DA. Developing an Accessible Discrete Choice Survey to Identify Supportive Care Preferences of Older Adults with Dementia. Value Health. 2025 Nov 14:S1098-3015(25)05682-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2025.10.015. Online ahead of print. Read more

Thandi M, Gibb A, Price M, Baumbusch J, Wong ST. Development and testing of an electronic frailty index using Canadian electronic medical record data in primary care. BMC Prim Care. 2025 Nov 12;26(1):359. doi: 10.1186/s12875-025-03075-7. Read more

Barbic SP, Warren C, Marchand K, Beggs T, Tsou S, Smit B, Lockhart L, Turuba R, Mathias S, Ben-David S. "My Day is Already Planned Out Before I Even Get to Choose it": Using Youth-Oriented Research to Understand and Measure What Matters to Youth Aged 12-15 Years and the Implications for Mental Health Services. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2025 Nov 10. doi: 10.1007/s10578-025-01926-z. Online ahead of print. Read more

Weymann D, Krebs E, Pollard S, Mcphail M, Bosdet I, Yip S, Weppler AM, Karsan A, Anderson H, Bubela T, Law MR, Kesselheim A, Regier DA. Patient and population impacts of multi-gene panel and pembrolizumab coverage in metastatic melanoma. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2025 Nov 8:djaf307. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djaf307. Online ahead of print. Read more

Nethery E, Xu C, Chan CSY, Helmer-Smith M, Stucchi A, Mooney D, Zusman EZ, Dunn S, Pammett R, Norman WV, Guarna G, Law MR, Schummers L. Mifepristone Access Through Community Pharmacies When Regulated as a Routine Prescription Medication. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Nov 3;8(11):e2542096. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.42096. Read more

Bond M, Beresford A, Noonan VK, Rotem-Kohavi N, Fallah N, Dvorak MF, Kwon BK, Liu G, Sutherland JM. Risk factors for complications in traumatic spinal cord injury: A retrospective analysis of a cohort of patients identified from administrative data. J Spinal Cord Med. 2025 Oct 24:1-12. doi: 10.1080/10790268.2025.2571822. Online ahead of print. Read more

Morgan N, Suen J, Liao U, Adair S, Heinemann L, Lai S, Marchand K, Barbic SP. Drug decriminalization: a co-designed study outlining the implications for providers of youth services. Harm Reduct J. 2025 Oct 21;22(171). doi: 10.1186/s12954-025-01320-x. Read more