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  • Lueurs et leurres de la santé globale À propos de MenAfriVac®, un vaccin « africain » contre la méningite 

    Thiongane, O., Graham, J. E., & Broutin, H. (2017). Lueurs et leurres de la santé globale: À propos de MenAfriVac®, un vaccin « africain » contre la méningite. Anthropologie & développement, 46-47(2017), 213-234 . doi: 10.4000/anthropodev.607
    In biomedical narratives, the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP) enabled the technology transfer for the development and implementation of MenAfriVac® vaccine at an affordable price for African countries. The presentation ...

  • Prepared for the “unexpected”? Lessons from the 2014-16 Ebola epidemic in West Africa on integrating emergent theory designs into outbreak response. 

    Graham, J. E., Lees, S., Le Marcis, F., et al. (2018). Prepared for the “unexpected”? Lessons from the 2014-16 Ebola epidemic in West Africa on integrating emergent theory designs into outbreak response. BMJ Global Health, 3, e000990. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-000990
    Summary Box 1. Even seemingly straightforward interventions, such as vaccine delivery, require real-time awareness of emergent on-the-ground local (‘field’) realities. 2. Outbreak response requires thoughtful engagement ...

  • Rendre évident: une approche symétrique de la réglementation des produits thérapeutiques 

    Graham, J., & Jones, M. (2010). Rendre évident: une approche symétrique de la réglementation des produits thérapeutiques. Sociologie et Sociétés, 42(2), 153-180.
    ENGLISH: Within the social studies of science, risk regulation regimes dominated by a technocratic approach are critiqued for neglecting public, socially situated epistemological standpoints, which, it is argued, are more ...

  • Risks of nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics? What the scientists say. 

    Hurlimann, T., Menuz, V., Graham, J., Robitaille, J., Vohl, M. C., & Godard, B. (2014). Risks of nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics? What the scientists say. Genes & nutrition, 9(1), 370. DOI 10.1007/s12263-013-0370-6
    Nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics (hereafter NGx) have stimulated expectations for beneficial applications in public health and individuals. Yet, the potential achievability of such promise is not without socioethical ...

  • Substitute Decision Making About Research: Identifying the Legally Authorized Representative in Four Canadian Provinces 

    Wildeman, S., Bravo, G., Dubois, M. F., Cohen, C., Graham, J., Painter, K., & Bellemare, S. (2012). Substitute decision making about research: identifying the legally authorized representative in four Canadian provinces. McGill Journal of Law & Health, 6(1), 189-274
    Canada's aging population presents new incentives for research on Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. But the public interest in advancing knowledge about these diseases must be partnered with a concern for exploitation, ...

  • Technologies of trust in epidemic response: openness, reflexivity and accountability during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa 

    Ryan, M. J., Giles-Vernick, T., & Graham, J. E. (2019). Technologies of trust in epidemic response: openness, reflexivity and accountability during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. BMJ Global Health, 4, e001272. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001272
    Trust is an essential component of successful cooperative endeavours. The global health response to the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak confronted historically tenuous regional relationships of trust. Challenging ...

  • Understanding vaccine hesitancy in Canada: Results of a consultation study by the Canadian Immunization Research Network 

    Dubé, E., Gagnon, D., Ouakki, M., Bettinger, J. A., Guay, M., Halperin, S., ... & Fisher, W. (2016). Understanding vaccine hesitancy in Canada: Results of a consultation study by the Canadian Immunization Research Network. PloS one, 11(6), e0156118. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156118
    “Vaccine hesitancy” is a concept now frequently used in vaccination discourse. The increased popularity of this concept in both academic and public health circles is challenging previously held perspectives that individual ...