Zack Marshall
Biographic Data
| ID | 199264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zack Marshall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zack |
| FAMILY NAME | Marshall |
| SIGNATURE | MARSHALL Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2315-3512 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Evaluating the perceived outcome and impact of an integrated knowledge translation approach in the development of an equity reporting guideline
Integrated knowledge translation (IKT) involves active engagement of knowledge users in co-producing research, ensuring their perspectives shape study design, analysis, and reporting. This can strengthen justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) considerations. We adopted an IKT approach in developing STROBE-Equity, an equity-focused reporting guidelin extension. The perceived value of embedding JEDI principles in reporting guideline devel…
Exploring perspectives of knowledge users about reporting on health equity in observational studies
BACKGROUND: Health inequities arising from systemic factors and contextual conditions result in avoidable and unjust differences in health outcomes, with profound social and economic implications. Health inequities can frequently go unreported in observational studies. Observational studies can uniquely inform how we understand and address persisting health inequities through collecting, reporting and analyzing health equity factors using 'inclus…
Community activity intervention reduced sitting time and improved population physical activity levels
The aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of the Beat the Street intervention; a gamification intervention to promote physical activity, reduce sitting time and improve wellbeing, among residents of Chelmsford and South Woodham Ferrers. Pre-post experimental design of the Beat the Street Intervention. Beat the Street gamifies neighbourhoods, incentivising the community to actively travel, collecting virtual points at sensors on s…
Mejorar la comunicación sobre la equidad en la salud en la investigación observacional (STROBE Equidad)
Melhorando a apresentação de informações sobre equidade em saúde em pesquisas observacionais (STROBE-Equity)
The Role of Protocol Papers, Scoping Reviews, and Systematic Reviews in Responsible AI Research
Research protocol papers, scoping reviews, and systematic reviews are important tools for ensuring transparency, methodological rigor, accountability, and reproducibility in scholarly research. While widely adopted in disciplines such as medicine and social sciences, these practices remain underutilized in computer science and engineering, particularly within responsible AI research. This article explores the critical role that scoping and system…
The Weight of Intersecting Identities
Gender-based violence (GBV) affects one in three women globally, with visible minority women being at a higher risk due to the intersection of sexism, racism, and xenophobia. Community-level GBV is a form of interpersonal violence that occurs in public spaces and is enacted by strangers, while systemic-level GBV is linked to institutional and public policies and reflected in inequalities in employment, access to resources, and exploitation. This …
Mental Health Supports for Sexual and Gender Minorities Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse
Sexual and gender minorities (SGM) experience inequitable health outcomes due to oppressive social forces (e.g., homophobia, transphobia). For SGM experiencing intimate partner violence and abuse (IPV), help-seeking is challenged by concomitant navigation of the abusive partner and discriminatory forces toward SGM. Mental health providers are an important source of support who can provide SGM experiencing IPV with the tools and resources they nee…
Public and semi-public injection drug use in Thunder Bay, Ontario
Although public injecting has been studied in large urban centres, little is known about the factors that drive public injecting in remote communities. This study sought to explore public and semi-public injection in Thunder Bay, a remote and mid-sized city in Northwestern Ontario. Peer researchers completed surveys with people who inject drugs. Multivariable logistic regression was used to examine sociodemographic characteristics and behavioural…
Banishment through Branding
This paper analyzes how the City of Montréal employed tools of urban planning-including a district plan, street redesign, rezoning, selective public consultation, expropriation, policing and surveillance-to spatially banish sex work from its historic district, using the red light symbol as a branding strategy. This coincided with a change in federal law (Bill C-36) and a policy shift to reposition sex workers as passive victims of sex trafficking…
I'm not interested in research; i'm interested in services
This paper presents results of a research priority setting process focused on trans women living with and affected by HIV across Canada. It features data from semi-structured interviews and focus groups conducted with a diverse group of 76 trans women in five urban centers across the country on how they have navigated health and social service programming within their geographic context. The results focus on the structure and types of services. R…
I was just doing what a normal gay man would do, right
Drawing on 24 interviews conducted with gay, bisexual, queer and other men who have sex with men (GBM) living in Toronto, Canada, we examined how they are making sense of the relationship between their mental health and substance use. We draw from the literature on the biopolitics of substance use to document how GBM self-regulate and use alcohol and other drugs (AODC) as technologies of the self. Despite cultural understandings of substance use …
Mental health and structural harm
Compared to the general population, sexual minority men report poorer mental health outcomes and higher mental healthcare utilisation. However, they also report more unmet mental health needs. To better understand this phenomenon, we conducted qualitative interviews with 24 sexual minority men to explore the structural factors shaping their encounters with mental healthcare in Toronto, Canada. Interviews were analysed using grounded theory. Many …
Potential use of supervised injection services among people who inject drugs in a remote and mid-size Canadian setting
Our findings suggest that SIS could play a role in addressing the harms of injection drug use in remote and mid-sized settings particularly for those who inject in public, as well as women and those who inject alone, who report higher expected frequency of SIS use. Design preferences of local PWID, in addition to differences according to gender should be taken into consideration to maximize the uptake of SIS, alongside existing health and social …
A tale of two epidemics
There is mounting urgency regarding the mental health of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBM). We examined how GBM are understanding the relationship between HIV and their mental health given the increasing biomedicalisation of HIV prevention and care. Our Grounded Theory analysis derived from qualitative interviews with 24 GBM living in Toronto, Canada, including both HIV-negative and HIV-positive men. Participants understood …
Challenges with access to healthcare from the perspective of patients living with HIV
Accessing healthcare can be difficult but the barriers multiply for people living with HIV (PLHIV). To improve access and the health of PLHIV, we must consider their perspectives and use them to inform standard practice. A better understanding of the current literature related to healthcare access from the perspective of PLHIV, can help to identify evidence gaps and highlight research priorities and opportunities. To identify relevant peer-review…
Gay, bisexual, and queer trans men navigating sexual fields
Drawing on interviews with 40 gay, bisexual, and queer trans men in Ontario, Canada, we describe understandings of, and strategies for affective and behavioral negotiation within virtual and physical sexual fields in which they might find male sexual partners. Participants drew sharp distinctions between gay and queer sexual fields. Specific websites for seeking sex also emerged as important fields with their own internal logics. Sexual field cho…
Troubling the boundaries
Policy scoping reviews are an effective method for generating evidence-informed policies. However, when applying guiding methodological frameworks to complex policy evidence, numerous, unexpected challenges can emerge. This paper details five challenges experienced and addressed by a policy trainee-led, multi-disciplinary research team, while conducting a scoping review of youth Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis C primary and secondary p…
Tobacco Control Recommendations Identified by LGBT Atlantans in a Community-Based Research Project
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 8, Issue 3, Fall 2014
Tobacco Control Recommendations Identified by LGBT Atlantans in a Community-Based Participatory Research Project
Findings reinforce insights from community-based research with other marginalized groups. Similarities include the importance of tailoring cessation programs for specific communities, the need to acknowledge differences within communities, and the significance of community spaces in shaping discussions of cessation. Further, this study highlights the need for heightened awareness. The Atlanta LGBT community is largely unaware that high smoking ra…
Navigating Risks and Professional Roles
We examine ethical issues that emerged during a community-based participatory research (CBPR) study in Toronto, Canada, exploring sexual health attitudes and practices among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people (ages 17-26) labeled with intellectual disabilities. These ethical concerns included: (1) managing the risk of coercion, (2) consent to participate in the study, (3) issues of confidentiality and discl…
Seeking Safer Sexual Spaces
Young lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people labeled with intellectual disabilities have unique sexual health needs that are not being met. Denial by others of their right to pleasure and the exercise of heightened external control over their sexuality are commonplace. Current research indicates that these youth are at heightened risk for compromised sexual health. This study aimed to explore the ways in which social and environmen…
Seeking Safer Sexual Spaces
Young lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people labeled with intellectual disabilities have unique sexual health needs that are not being met. Denial by others of their right to pleasure and the exercise of heightened external control over their sexuality are commonplace. Current research indicates that these youth are at heightened risk for compromised sexual health. This study aimed to explore the ways in which social and environmen…
Navigating Risks and Professional Roles
We examine ethical issues that emerged during a community-based participatory research (CBPR) study in Toronto, Canada, exploring sexual health attitudes and practices among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people (ages 17-26) labeled with intellectual disabilities. These ethical concerns included: (1) managing the risk of coercion, (2) consent to participate in the study, (3) issues of confidentiality and discl…
I'm not interested in research; i'm interested in services
This paper presents results of a research priority setting process focused on trans women living with and affected by HIV across Canada. It features data from semi-structured interviews and focus groups conducted with a diverse group of 76 trans women in five urban centers across the country on how they have navigated health and social service programming within their geographic context. The results focus on the structure and types of services. R…
A tale of two epidemics
There is mounting urgency regarding the mental health of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBM). We examined how GBM are understanding the relationship between HIV and their mental health given the increasing biomedicalisation of HIV prevention and care. Our Grounded Theory analysis derived from qualitative interviews with 24 GBM living in Toronto, Canada, including both HIV-negative and HIV-positive men. Participants understood …
I was just doing what a normal gay man would do, right
Drawing on 24 interviews conducted with gay, bisexual, queer and other men who have sex with men (GBM) living in Toronto, Canada, we examined how they are making sense of the relationship between their mental health and substance use. We draw from the literature on the biopolitics of substance use to document how GBM self-regulate and use alcohol and other drugs (AODC) as technologies of the self. Despite cultural understandings of substance use …
Banishment through Branding
This paper analyzes how the City of Montréal employed tools of urban planning-including a district plan, street redesign, rezoning, selective public consultation, expropriation, policing and surveillance-to spatially banish sex work from its historic district, using the red light symbol as a branding strategy. This coincided with a change in federal law (Bill C-36) and a policy shift to reposition sex workers as passive victims of sex trafficking…
Navigating Risks and Professional Roles
We examine ethical issues that emerged during a community-based participatory research (CBPR) study in Toronto, Canada, exploring sexual health attitudes and practices among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people (ages 17-26) labeled with intellectual disabilities. These ethical concerns included: (1) managing the risk of coercion, (2) consent to participate in the study, (3) issues of confidentiality and discl…
Seeking Safer Sexual Spaces
Young lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people labeled with intellectual disabilities have unique sexual health needs that are not being met. Denial by others of their right to pleasure and the exercise of heightened external control over their sexuality are commonplace. Current research indicates that these youth are at heightened risk for compromised sexual health. This study aimed to explore the ways in which social and environmen…
Tobacco Control Recommendations Identified by LGBT Atlantans in a Community-Based Research Project
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 8, Issue 3, Fall 2014
Tobacco Control Recommendations Identified by LGBT Atlantans in a Community-Based Participatory Research Project
Findings reinforce insights from community-based research with other marginalized groups. Similarities include the importance of tailoring cessation programs for specific communities, the need to acknowledge differences within communities, and the significance of community spaces in shaping discussions of cessation. Further, this study highlights the need for heightened awareness. The Atlanta LGBT community is largely unaware that high smoking ra…
Troubling the boundaries
Policy scoping reviews are an effective method for generating evidence-informed policies. However, when applying guiding methodological frameworks to complex policy evidence, numerous, unexpected challenges can emerge. This paper details five challenges experienced and addressed by a policy trainee-led, multi-disciplinary research team, while conducting a scoping review of youth Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis C primary and secondary p…
Gay, bisexual, and queer trans men navigating sexual fields
Drawing on interviews with 40 gay, bisexual, and queer trans men in Ontario, Canada, we describe understandings of, and strategies for affective and behavioral negotiation within virtual and physical sexual fields in which they might find male sexual partners. Participants drew sharp distinctions between gay and queer sexual fields. Specific websites for seeking sex also emerged as important fields with their own internal logics. Sexual field cho…
Challenges with access to healthcare from the perspective of patients living with HIV
Accessing healthcare can be difficult but the barriers multiply for people living with HIV (PLHIV). To improve access and the health of PLHIV, we must consider their perspectives and use them to inform standard practice. A better understanding of the current literature related to healthcare access from the perspective of PLHIV, can help to identify evidence gaps and highlight research priorities and opportunities. To identify relevant peer-review…
Potential use of supervised injection services among people who inject drugs in a remote and mid-size Canadian setting
Our findings suggest that SIS could play a role in addressing the harms of injection drug use in remote and mid-sized settings particularly for those who inject in public, as well as women and those who inject alone, who report higher expected frequency of SIS use. Design preferences of local PWID, in addition to differences according to gender should be taken into consideration to maximize the uptake of SIS, alongside existing health and social …
A tale of two epidemics
There is mounting urgency regarding the mental health of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBM). We examined how GBM are understanding the relationship between HIV and their mental health given the increasing biomedicalisation of HIV prevention and care. Our Grounded Theory analysis derived from qualitative interviews with 24 GBM living in Toronto, Canada, including both HIV-negative and HIV-positive men. Participants understood …
Mental health and structural harm
Compared to the general population, sexual minority men report poorer mental health outcomes and higher mental healthcare utilisation. However, they also report more unmet mental health needs. To better understand this phenomenon, we conducted qualitative interviews with 24 sexual minority men to explore the structural factors shaping their encounters with mental healthcare in Toronto, Canada. Interviews were analysed using grounded theory. Many …
Public and semi-public injection drug use in Thunder Bay, Ontario
Although public injecting has been studied in large urban centres, little is known about the factors that drive public injecting in remote communities. This study sought to explore public and semi-public injection in Thunder Bay, a remote and mid-sized city in Northwestern Ontario. Peer researchers completed surveys with people who inject drugs. Multivariable logistic regression was used to examine sociodemographic characteristics and behavioural…
Banishment through Branding
This paper analyzes how the City of Montréal employed tools of urban planning-including a district plan, street redesign, rezoning, selective public consultation, expropriation, policing and surveillance-to spatially banish sex work from its historic district, using the red light symbol as a branding strategy. This coincided with a change in federal law (Bill C-36) and a policy shift to reposition sex workers as passive victims of sex trafficking…
I'm not interested in research; i'm interested in services
This paper presents results of a research priority setting process focused on trans women living with and affected by HIV across Canada. It features data from semi-structured interviews and focus groups conducted with a diverse group of 76 trans women in five urban centers across the country on how they have navigated health and social service programming within their geographic context. The results focus on the structure and types of services. R…
I was just doing what a normal gay man would do, right
Drawing on 24 interviews conducted with gay, bisexual, queer and other men who have sex with men (GBM) living in Toronto, Canada, we examined how they are making sense of the relationship between their mental health and substance use. We draw from the literature on the biopolitics of substance use to document how GBM self-regulate and use alcohol and other drugs (AODC) as technologies of the self. Despite cultural understandings of substance use …
The Role of Protocol Papers, Scoping Reviews, and Systematic Reviews in Responsible AI Research
Research protocol papers, scoping reviews, and systematic reviews are important tools for ensuring transparency, methodological rigor, accountability, and reproducibility in scholarly research. While widely adopted in disciplines such as medicine and social sciences, these practices remain underutilized in computer science and engineering, particularly within responsible AI research. This article explores the critical role that scoping and system…
The Weight of Intersecting Identities
Gender-based violence (GBV) affects one in three women globally, with visible minority women being at a higher risk due to the intersection of sexism, racism, and xenophobia. Community-level GBV is a form of interpersonal violence that occurs in public spaces and is enacted by strangers, while systemic-level GBV is linked to institutional and public policies and reflected in inequalities in employment, access to resources, and exploitation. This …
Mental Health Supports for Sexual and Gender Minorities Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse
Sexual and gender minorities (SGM) experience inequitable health outcomes due to oppressive social forces (e.g., homophobia, transphobia). For SGM experiencing intimate partner violence and abuse (IPV), help-seeking is challenged by concomitant navigation of the abusive partner and discriminatory forces toward SGM. Mental health providers are an important source of support who can provide SGM experiencing IPV with the tools and resources they nee…
Evaluating the perceived outcome and impact of an integrated knowledge translation approach in the development of an equity reporting guideline
Integrated knowledge translation (IKT) involves active engagement of knowledge users in co-producing research, ensuring their perspectives shape study design, analysis, and reporting. This can strengthen justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) considerations. We adopted an IKT approach in developing STROBE-Equity, an equity-focused reporting guidelin extension. The perceived value of embedding JEDI principles in reporting guideline devel…
Exploring perspectives of knowledge users about reporting on health equity in observational studies
BACKGROUND: Health inequities arising from systemic factors and contextual conditions result in avoidable and unjust differences in health outcomes, with profound social and economic implications. Health inequities can frequently go unreported in observational studies. Observational studies can uniquely inform how we understand and address persisting health inequities through collecting, reporting and analyzing health equity factors using 'inclus…
Community activity intervention reduced sitting time and improved population physical activity levels
The aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of the Beat the Street intervention; a gamification intervention to promote physical activity, reduce sitting time and improve wellbeing, among residents of Chelmsford and South Woodham Ferrers. Pre-post experimental design of the Beat the Street Intervention. Beat the Street gamifies neighbourhoods, incentivising the community to actively travel, collecting virtual points at sensors on s…
Mejorar la comunicación sobre la equidad en la salud en la investigación observacional (STROBE Equidad)
Melhorando a apresentação de informações sobre equidade em saúde em pesquisas observacionais (STROBE-Equity)
Medicine (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Public health (7 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (5 works)