News and Publications for 2025
Foluso Ishola, Britt McKinnon, Seungmi Yang, Arijit Nandi. Neonatal mortality and contraceptive utilization following abortion restriction in the Dominican Republic: A difference-in-differences analysis. Social Science & Medicine. Volume 372, 2025. 117969, ISSN 0277-9536. doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117969.
Emmanuelle Batisse, Marshall Lloyd, Alicia Cavanaugh, Arman Ganji, Junshi Xu, Marianne Hatzopoulou, Jill Baumgartner, Scott Weichenthal. Examining the social distributions in neighbourhood black carbon and ultrafine particles in Montreal and Toronto, Canada. Environment International. Volume 198, 2025. 109395, ISSN 0160-4120. doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2025.109395.
Christopher Barrington-Leigh was quoted in the following McGill Newsroom Institutional Communications article by Keila DePape on March 20, 2025. Expert: World Happiness Report 2025.
Christopher Barrington-Leigh was interviewed in the following The Globe and Mail podcast on March 18, 2025. Can money buy you happiness? It’s complicated.
Ndlovu JN, Andersen LS, Leku MR, Upadhaya N, Skovdal M, Augustinavicius JL, et al. (2025) “My home is (now) at peace”: Evaluating the relevance, acceptability and potential scalability of a guided self-help intervention for male refugees in Uganda. PLOS Mental Health 2(3): e0000079. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmen.0000079.
Harsh Gupta, Robyn Ann Husa, Staci J Wendt, Ann Vita, Claire Boone, Jessica B Weiss, Anton J Bilchik - Longitudinal retrospective study of real-world adherence to colorectal cancer screening before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA: BMJ Public Health 2025;3:e001734.
Fajle Rabbi Ashik, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Kevin Manaugh. Street network connectivity leads to denser urban form in Canadian cities. Cities. Volume 161, 2025, 105844, ISSN 0264-2751, doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.105844.
Weinstock, DM. (2025). Language as a Criterion of Immigrant Selection. In: Akhtar, S. (ed) The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Immigration. Routledge, New York, New York. ISBN 9780367479282.
Ricky Nathvani, Alicia Cavanaugh, Esra Suel, Honor Bixby, Sierra N. Clark, Antje Barbara Metzler, James Nimo, Josephine Bedford Moses, Solomon Baah, Raphael E. Arku, Brian E. Robinson, Jill Baumgartner, James E Bennett, Abeer M. Arif, Ying Long, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Majid Ezzati. Measurement of urban vitality with time-lapsed street-view images and object-detection for scalable assessment of pedestrian-sidewalk dynamics. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Volume 221, 2025, Pages 251-264. ISSN 0924-2716. doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2025.01.038.
Phoebe Friesen, Wan-Li Sun, Sarah Towle, Zoe Hyman-Levy. Is Specific Consent for Educational Sensitive Exams on Anesthetized Patients Necessary? Arguments for and Against From Canadian Medical Students. Journal of Surgical Education. Volume 82, Issue 3, 2025, 103349, ISSN 1931-7204. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2024.103349.
Barrington-Leigh, C., & Millard-Ball, A. (2025). A high-resolution global time series of street-network sprawl. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 0 (0). doi.org/10.1177/23998083241306829.
Arpin, E., Gautier, L., Quesnel-Vallée, A. Québec: A Health System Profile. University of Toronto Press. April 15, 2025.
Jill Baumgartner was awarded a CIHR grant - Co-producing knowledge on neighbourhood heat and its impacts on child mental health and cognition.
Charlotte Ouimet, Bianca Fodor, Joseph C Del Paggio, Jonathan Kimmelman, Proportion of patients in phase 2 oncology trials receiving treatments that are ultimately approved, JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2025;, djaf013, doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djaf013.
Godard-Sebillotte C, Arsenault-Lapierre G, Sourial N, Navani S, Quesnel-Vallée A, et al. Examining equity in service use across socioeconomic status in people with dementia. Alzheimer's Dement. 2025; 1:e70006. doi.org/10.1002/bsa3.70006.
The mirage of “death as a benefit”: Advance directives have no place in MAiD: Advance consent to end one’s life is not morally equal to an informed decision freely made here and now, by Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry on February 4, 2025.
Mamiya, H., Crowell, K., Mah, C.L., Quesnel-Vallée, A., et al. Characterizing co-purchased food products with soda, fresh fruits, and fresh vegetables using loyalty card purchasing data in Montréal, Canada, 2015–2017. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 22, 19 (2025). doi.org/10.1186/s12966-024-01701-8.
Clairmont S, Doerksen E, Gunay AE, Friesen P. (Epistemic) Injustice and Resistance in Canadian Research Ethics Governance. Ethics Hum Res. 2025 Jan-Feb;47(1):2-19. doi: 10.1002/eahr.60004. PMID: 39749365; PMCID: PMC11696195.
Kimmelman, J. (2025). A critique of the moral economy of pharmaceutical development. Critical Policy Studies, 1–19. doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2025.2457529.
Maioni A. Portability and the Canada Health Act. Healthc Pap. 2025 Jan;22(3):35-39. doi: 10.12927/hcpap.2025.27531. PMID: 40116246.
Quesnel-Vallée A, Arpin E. The Canada Health Act Viewed Through an Equity Lens. Healthc Pap. 2025 Jan;22(3):29-34. doi: 10.12927/hcpap.2025.27530. PMID: 40116245.
Boone C, Colina C, Pope D. Antidepressant Use Before, During, and After Pregnancy. JAMA Netw Open. 2025;8(1):e2457324. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.57324.