Eric Mykhalovskiy

Biographic Data

ID204327
NAMEEric Mykhalovskiy
GIVEN NAMESEric
FAMILY NAMEMykhalovskiy
SIGNATUREMYKHALOVSKIY E
AFFILIATIONSYork University
ORCID0000-0002-7518-7784
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS372
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX11

  • HIV, public health, and the “unwilling or unable” person living with HIV

    Open AccessEric Mykhalovskiy, Colin HastingsARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

    This paper responds to recent calls from advocates for research on the public health governance of HIV. Drawing on a critical social science with public health approach and theoretical insights from Dorothy Smith and Michel Foucault, we offer a study of key texts that guide public health efforts to prevent HIV transmission in Canada. We explore how the texts lay out case management as an objectified course of action linking risk assessment and pu…

  • It’s time to end HIV criminalization

    Open AccessEric MykhalovskiyARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2024References: 4

  • Criminal Code reform of HIV non-disclosure is urgently needed: Social science perspectives on the harms of HIV criminalization in Canada

    Open AccessColin Hastings, Martin French et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2024Cited by: 3References: 43

  • Economic policy and public health: Insights from the history of the Canadian Journal of Public Health

    Open AccessLindsay Mclaren, Eric MykhalovskiyARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2024Cited by: 4References: 20

    The nearly 115-year history of the Canadian Journal of Public Health (CJPH) provides an important opportunity to reflect on and learn from our past. In response to an invitation to members of the CJPH Editorial Board to curate historical articles around a theme, we undertook a historical examination of our field's engagement, as gleaned through the pages of CJPH, with economic policy. This was inspired by the now well-established connections amon…

  • How equitable has the Covid-19 response been in Canada

    Open AccessCecilia Benoit, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2022References: 10

  • Teaching Institutional Ethnography as an Alternative Sociology

    Open AccessEric Mykhalovskiy, Colin Hastings et al.CHAPTERThe Palgrave Handbook of…2021

  • Explicitly racialised and extraordinarily over-represented: Black immigrant men in 25 years of news reports on HIV non-disclosure criminal cases in Canada

    Eric Mykhalovskiy, Chris Sanders et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2021

    This paper explores newspaper coverage of HIV non-disclosure criminal cases in Canada in which defendants are Black immigrant men living with HIV. We base our analysis on a corpus of 1680 English-language Canadian newspaper articles written between 1989 and 2015. For the first time ever, we present quantitative evidence of the dramatic overrepresentation of Black men in such coverage. We also provide an analysis of the racialised regime of repres…

  • Pay to skip the line: The political economy of digital testing services for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections

    Open AccessKinnon R Mackinnon, Eric Mykhalovskiy et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Cited by: 2References: 33

    The value of digital healthcare has been lauded in Canada at local, provincial, and national levels. Digital medicine is purported to enhance patient access to care while promising cost savings. Using institutional ethnography, we examined the potential for publicly funded digital testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI) in Ontario, Canada. Our analyses draw from 23 stakeholder interviews with healthcare professionals condu…

  • Health Matters: Evidence, Critical Social Science, and Health Care in Canada

    Eric Mykhalovskiy, Jacqueline Choiniere et al.BOOKHealth Matters2020

    This book calls into question the complexity of social, political, cultural, and technological aspects of the health care system. It explores how critical social science research can be put into action to improve health care in Canada.

  • Normative Tensions in the Popular Representation of Children with Disabilities and Animal-Assisted Therapy

    Open AccessEric Mykhalovskiy, Rita Kanarek et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Disability…2020

    This article contributes to the critical disability and human-nonhuman animal studies literatures through a discourse analysis of newspaper stories about animal-assisted therapy (AAT) and children with disabilities published in the United States and Canada. The articles in our corpus form a recognizable genre that we call AAT human-nonhuman animal interest stories. We pose two central questions of the genre: (1) how is the therapeutic value of AA…

  • Corporate contact tracing as a pandemic response

    Open AccessMartin French, Adrian Guta et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2020

    Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a steady stream of propositions from tech giants and start-ups alike has furnished us with the idea that GPS- or Bluetooth-enabled contact tracing apps are a vital part of the pandemic response. This commentary considers these apps as ‘corporate contact tracing’, emphasizing the private-sector role that such developments imply. We first discuss corporate contact tracing’s potential to de-center the power …

  • Disrupting a Canadian Prairie Fantasy and Constructing Racial Otherness: An Analysis of News Media Coverage of Trevis Smith’s Criminal HIV Non-Disclosure Case

    Open AccessColin Hastings, Eric Mykhalovskiy et al.ARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of Sociology2020Cited by: 4References: 5

    This paper studies how HIV criminalization is portrayed in the mainstream Canadian press by examining news representations of Trevis Smith. Smith’s case is the most reported case of criminal HIV non-disclosure in Canadian history. Our analysis is based on a corpus of 271 articles written about Smith between 2005 and 2012. Our analysis shows that coverage of Smith’s case is distinct from reportage of other criminal HIV non-disclosure cases because…

  • Requirement for Meaningful Engagement of First Nations, Inuit, Métis, and Indigenous Peoples in Publications About Them

    Open AccessJanet Smylie, Namaste Marsden et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2020Cited by: 8

  • Human rights, public health and Covid-19 in Canada

    Open AccessEric Mykhalovskiy, Cécile Kazatchkine et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2020Cited by: 9References: 5

  • Covid-19, public health, and the politics of prevention

    Open AccessEric Mykhalovskiy, Martin FrenchARTICLESociology of Health & Illness2020Cited by: 1References: 31

    If the global HIV pandemic and more localised outbreaks of SARS, Ebola and the Zika virus, among others, did not convince us that infectious diseases have been far from conquered, then COVID-19 must certainly have done so. In the past few months, questions about the global coronavirus pandemic – its cause, distribution, health and social impacts, and how best to limit its reach through public health measures – have re-centred emerging infectious …

  • Taking account of context in population health intervention research: Guidance for producers, users and funders of research

    Peter Craig, Erica Di Ruggiero et al.REPORT2018

    Population health intervention research (PHIR) seeks to develop and evaluate policies, programmes and other types of interventions that may affect population health and health equity. Such interventions are strongly influenced by context – taken to refer to any feature of the circumstances in which an intervention is conceived, developed, implemented and evaluated. Understanding how interventions relate to context is critical to understanding how…

  • Critical social science with public health: Agonism, critique and engagement

    Open AccessEric Mykhalovskiy, Katherine L Frohlich et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2018

    This article is about a mode of scholarly practice we call critical social science with public health. The article responds to our dissatisfaction with established approaches to social science engagement with public health that have developed out of Straus’ early distinction between sociology in and of medicine. By critical social science with public health we mean a set of research practices that orients to epistemological and political differen…

  • Beyond bare bones: Critical, theoretically engaged qualitative research in public health

    Open AccessEric Mykhalovskiy, Joan Eakin et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2018Cited by: 14References: 14

  • Criminalising Contagion: Legal and Ethical Challenges of Disease Transmission and the Criminal Law

    Open AccessMargaret Brazier, Lawrence O Gostin et al.BOOKCriminalising Contagion2016

    The use of the criminal law to punish those who transmit disease is a topical and controversial issue. To date, the law (and the related academic literature) has largely focused on HIV transmission. With contributions from leading practitioners and international scholars from a variety of disciplines, this volume explores the broader question of if and when it is appropriate to criminalise the transmission of contagion. The scope and application …

  • The public health implications of HIV criminalization: Past, current, and future research directions

    Open AccessEric MykhalovskiyARTICLECritical Public Health2015

    While public health remains the primary site of authority for preventing HIV transmission, recent shifts in the biopolitics of HIV have heightened tensions in the institutional and discursive relations through which the sexual lives of people living with HIV and broader HIV epidemics are regulated. Most notably, over the past decade, criminal justice responses to HIV have gained considerable traction. The growing use of the criminal law to regula…

  • Criminalization of HIV Transmission and Exposure: Research and Policy Agenda

    Zita Lazzarini, Carol L Galletly et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2013Cited by: 3References: 18

    More than half of US jurisdictions have laws criminalizing knowing exposure to or transmission of HIV, yet little evidence supports these laws’ effectiveness in reducing HIV incidence. These laws may undermine prevention efforts outlined in the US National HIV/AIDS Strategy, in which the United States has invested substantial federal funds. Future research should include studies of (1) the impact of US HIV exposure laws on public health systems a…

  • Public health intelligence and the detection of potential pandemics

    Open AccessMartin French, Eric MykhalovskiyARTICLESociology of Health & Illness2013Cited by: 6References: 34

    This article considers contemporary developments in public health intelligence (PHI), especially their focus on health events of pandemic potential. It argues that the sociological study of PHI can yield important insights for the sociology of pandemics. PHI aims to detect health events as (or evenbefore) they unfold. Whilst its apparatuses envelope traditional public health activities, such as epidemiological surveillance, they increasingly exte…

  • Who? What? Where? When? And with What Consequences? An Analysis of Criminal Cases of HIV Non-disclosure in Canada

    Open AccessEric Mykhalovskiy, Glenn BetteridgeARTICLECanadian Journal of Law and…2012Cited by: 12References: 2

    The use of criminal-law powers to respond to people with HIV who place others at risk of HIV infection has emerged as a focal point of AIDS advocacy at global, national, and local levels. In the Canadian context, reform efforts that address the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure have been hampered by the absence of data on the contours, scale, and outcomes of criminalization. This article responds to that gap in knowledge with the first compre…

  • Creating the socially marginalised youth smoker: The Role of Tobacco Control

    Open AccessKatherine L Frohlich, Eric Mykhalovskiy et al.ARTICLESociology of Health & Illness2012Cited by: 14References: 16

    We discuss how the tobacco control discourse on youth smoking in Canada appears to be producing and constituting socially marginalised smokers. We analyse material from a study on social inequalities in Canadian youth smoking. Individual interviews were conducted in 2007 and 2008 with tobacco control practitioners specialising in youth smoking prevention in British Columbia and Quebec. We found that the discourse on youth smoking is creating a se…

  • "The problem of "significant risk: Exploring the public health impact of criminalizing HIV non-disclosure

    Open AccessEric MykhalovskiyARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2011Cited by: 25References: 15