Dr. Marjorie MacDonald
About Marjorie
Marjorie MacDonald is a professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Victoria, a scientist in the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (formerly CARBC) and she teaches in the School of Public Health and Social Policy.
She is co-director of the Research in Public Health Systems and Services Initiative (BC) (formerly CPHFRI), which is leading an initiative to develop a public health services and systems research (PHSSR) agenda for Canada.
From 2009-2015, Marjorie held an inaugural CIHR/PHAC Applied Public Health Research Chair and is immediate past-president of the Public Health Association of BC.
Research interests include public health systems renewal, health equity, public health and primary care collaboration, adolescent health promotion and substance use prevention, and public health ethics. She is currently the Nominated Principal Investigator of a CIHR-funded knowledge synthesis project (Clearing the Air) examining the harm-reduction potential of electronic cigarettes/vapour devices. Marjorie is also the BC lead for the Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and Drug Survey (CSTADS) – a secondary and middle school-based survey conducted bi-annually across Canada.
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Projects
- An Indigenous equity lens for public health
- Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and Drug Survey
- Clearing the air: a systematic review of the evidence on the harms and benefits of e-cigarettes and vapour devices
- Equity lens in public health (ELPH) reducing health inequities: The contribution of core public health services in BC
- Supporting successful implementation of public health interventions: a realist synthesis
Publications
- Claims in vapour device (e-cigarette) regulation: A narrative policy framework analysis
- Clearing the Air: A systematic review on the harms and benefits of e-cigarettes and vapour devices
- Clearing the air: protocol for a systematic meta-narrative review on the harms and benefits of e-cigarettes and vapour devices
- Critical considerations for the practical utility of health equity tools: a concept mapping study
- Fading vision: Knowledge translation in the implementation of public health policy intervention
- Health equity-oriented approaches to inform responses to opioid overdoses: a scoping review protocol
- Health equity tools
- Navigating conflicting value systems: a grounded theory of the process of public health equity work in the context of mental health promotion and prevention of harms of substance use
- Reducing health inequities: The contribution of core public health services in BC
- Situational Analysis for Complex Systems: Methodological Development in Public Health Research
- Supporting successful implementation of public health interventions: Protocol for a realist synthesis
- Values are not enough: qualitative study identifying critical elements for prioritization of health equity in health systems
- Working within the landscape: Ethics in practice
- “The health equity curse”: ethical tensions in promoting health equity