Alexander Mcclelland
Biographic Data
| ID | 238091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Mcclelland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcclelland |
| SIGNATURE | MCCLELLAND A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6397-2953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
‘It's Primarily Around Their Viral Load’
In Ontario, Canada, public health authorities can issue and enforce orders to people living with HIV (PLWH). However, how public health practitioners determine when someone's behaviours constitute ‘significant’ risk remains underexplored. We drew on assemblage theory to examine how HIV risk is co‐constituted through the interplay among biomedical technologies, institutional practices, legal frameworks and social discourses. We conducted 18 semi‐s…
Social life of HIV data
Data are central to public health and to the management of infectious diseases like HIV. There are ongoing tensions over what information to generate and store, how to measure variables, who gets to analyse and approve results, and to what extent data reflect reality. This review provides an overview of key concepts for understanding the social life of HIV public health data in relation to HIV: the transformation of life into different kinds of v…
The Right to Report, the Duty to Report, and the Costs of Reporting
It is well understood that safeguarding confidentiality is paramount to ensuring the success of research and the protection of participations. However, professional responsibilities and ethics of care can, at times, manifest in a requirement, or even a desire, to breach promises of confidentiality. We unpack this tension by drawing on research on the concepts of legal privilege, the right to report and the duty to report, the impacts of disclosur…
Tracking (In)Justice
There is a lack of knowledge on deaths related to police use of force across Canada. Tracking (In)Justice is a research project that is trying to make sense of the life and death outcomes of policing through developing a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and open-source database using publicly available sources. With a collaborative data governance approach, which includes communities most impacted and families of those killed by police, we docum…
Criminal Code reform of HIV non-disclosure is urgently needed
Action needed to address molecular HIV surveillance ethical concerns
Predictive analytics in HIV surveillance require new approaches to data ethics, rights, and regulation in public health
In recent years, applications of big data-driven predictive analytics in public health programs have expanded, offering promises of greater efficiency and improved outcomes. This commentary considers the turn toward predictive modeling in US-based HIV public health initiatives. Through two case studies, we analyze emergent ethical problems and risks. We focus on potential harms related to (1) classifying people living with HIV in public health sy…
Picturing Participation
Community engagement is considered a cornerstone of health promotion practice. Yet engagement is a fuzzy term signifying a range of practices. Health scholarship has focused primarily on individual effects of engagement. To understand the complexities of engagement, organizations must also consider relational, structural, and/or organizational factors that inform stakeholders’ subjective understandings and experiences. Community engagement proces…
Alternatives to sharing Covid-19 data with law enforcement
During the COVID-19 pandemic, in some jurisdictions, police have become involved in enforcing coronavirus-related measures. Relatedly, several North American jurisdictions have established COVID-19 data sharing protocols with law enforcement. Research across a range of fields has demonstrated that involving police in matters of public health disproportionately impacts the most vulnerable and does more harm than good. This is reflected in the cons…
Willed ambiguity
We offer exploratory reflections on the matter of sexual misconduct affecting sexuality minority male students by males in positions of authority in the university, based on interviews with eight sexual violence service providers and five men across Canada with lived experience, as well as information gathered through our recruitment work. Data were interpreted using thematic analysis. Our results indicate that there is a need to think through th…
Ethics and Confidentiality
In May 2012, a former research assistant contacted the Montréal police about an interview he had conducted with Luka Magnotta for the SSHRC-funded research project Sex Work and Intimacy: Escorts and their Clients four years previously. That call ultimately resulted in the Parent and Bruckert v R and Magnotta case. Now, a decade later, we are positioned to reflect on the collective lessons learned (and lost) from the case. In this paper, we provid…
Intersections of Treatment, Surveillance, and Criminal Law Responses to HIV and Covid-19
Intersections of Treatment, Surveillance, and Criminal Law Responses to HIV and COVID-19 Colin Hastings PhD, Alexander McClelland PhD, Adrian Guta PhD, MSW, Maureen Owino MES, Eli Manning PhD, MSW, Michael Orsini PhD, Richard Elliott LLM, Marilou Gagnon PhD, RN, and Stephen Molldrem PhD Affiliation Colin Hastings is with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC. Alexander McClelland is with the Institute of…
Corporate contact tracing as a pandemic response
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 …
Ricky Varghese, RAW
Journeying together
Human rights, public health and Covid-19 in Canada
The rise of molecular HIV surveillance
Public health experts in the US and Canada are increasingly mobilizing molecular-based surveillance techniques in seeking to identify and control HIV. Both countries are also leading in the world to criminalize HIV exposure, transmission and non-disclosure, as well as having pervasive ongoing criminalization regimes toward drug use, sex work and migration. Molecular surveillance aims to rapidly identify ‘risk network’ clusters of people normally …
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…
Falling Through the Cracks of the Big Cities
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…
Human rights, public health and Covid-19 in Canada
Falling Through the Cracks of the Big Cities
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…
Criminal Code reform of HIV non-disclosure is urgently needed
Ethics and Confidentiality
In May 2012, a former research assistant contacted the Montréal police about an interview he had conducted with Luka Magnotta for the SSHRC-funded research project Sex Work and Intimacy: Escorts and their Clients four years previously. That call ultimately resulted in the Parent and Bruckert v R and Magnotta case. Now, a decade later, we are positioned to reflect on the collective lessons learned (and lost) from the case. In this paper, we provid…
Intersections of Treatment, Surveillance, and Criminal Law Responses to HIV and Covid-19
Intersections of Treatment, Surveillance, and Criminal Law Responses to HIV and COVID-19 Colin Hastings PhD, Alexander McClelland PhD, Adrian Guta PhD, MSW, Maureen Owino MES, Eli Manning PhD, MSW, Michael Orsini PhD, Richard Elliott LLM, Marilou Gagnon PhD, RN, and Stephen Molldrem PhD Affiliation Colin Hastings is with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC. Alexander McClelland is with the Institute of…
Falling Through the Cracks of the Big Cities
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…
The rise of molecular HIV surveillance
Public health experts in the US and Canada are increasingly mobilizing molecular-based surveillance techniques in seeking to identify and control HIV. Both countries are also leading in the world to criminalize HIV exposure, transmission and non-disclosure, as well as having pervasive ongoing criminalization regimes toward drug use, sex work and migration. Molecular surveillance aims to rapidly identify ‘risk network’ clusters of people normally …
Corporate contact tracing as a pandemic response
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 …
Ricky Varghese, RAW
Journeying together
Human rights, public health and Covid-19 in Canada
Picturing Participation
Community engagement is considered a cornerstone of health promotion practice. Yet engagement is a fuzzy term signifying a range of practices. Health scholarship has focused primarily on individual effects of engagement. To understand the complexities of engagement, organizations must also consider relational, structural, and/or organizational factors that inform stakeholders’ subjective understandings and experiences. Community engagement proces…
Alternatives to sharing Covid-19 data with law enforcement
During the COVID-19 pandemic, in some jurisdictions, police have become involved in enforcing coronavirus-related measures. Relatedly, several North American jurisdictions have established COVID-19 data sharing protocols with law enforcement. Research across a range of fields has demonstrated that involving police in matters of public health disproportionately impacts the most vulnerable and does more harm than good. This is reflected in the cons…
Willed ambiguity
We offer exploratory reflections on the matter of sexual misconduct affecting sexuality minority male students by males in positions of authority in the university, based on interviews with eight sexual violence service providers and five men across Canada with lived experience, as well as information gathered through our recruitment work. Data were interpreted using thematic analysis. Our results indicate that there is a need to think through th…
Ethics and Confidentiality
In May 2012, a former research assistant contacted the Montréal police about an interview he had conducted with Luka Magnotta for the SSHRC-funded research project Sex Work and Intimacy: Escorts and their Clients four years previously. That call ultimately resulted in the Parent and Bruckert v R and Magnotta case. Now, a decade later, we are positioned to reflect on the collective lessons learned (and lost) from the case. In this paper, we provid…
Intersections of Treatment, Surveillance, and Criminal Law Responses to HIV and Covid-19
Intersections of Treatment, Surveillance, and Criminal Law Responses to HIV and COVID-19 Colin Hastings PhD, Alexander McClelland PhD, Adrian Guta PhD, MSW, Maureen Owino MES, Eli Manning PhD, MSW, Michael Orsini PhD, Richard Elliott LLM, Marilou Gagnon PhD, RN, and Stephen Molldrem PhD Affiliation Colin Hastings is with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC. Alexander McClelland is with the Institute of…
Predictive analytics in HIV surveillance require new approaches to data ethics, rights, and regulation in public health
In recent years, applications of big data-driven predictive analytics in public health programs have expanded, offering promises of greater efficiency and improved outcomes. This commentary considers the turn toward predictive modeling in US-based HIV public health initiatives. Through two case studies, we analyze emergent ethical problems and risks. We focus on potential harms related to (1) classifying people living with HIV in public health sy…
Criminal Code reform of HIV non-disclosure is urgently needed
Action needed to address molecular HIV surveillance ethical concerns
The Right to Report, the Duty to Report, and the Costs of Reporting
It is well understood that safeguarding confidentiality is paramount to ensuring the success of research and the protection of participations. However, professional responsibilities and ethics of care can, at times, manifest in a requirement, or even a desire, to breach promises of confidentiality. We unpack this tension by drawing on research on the concepts of legal privilege, the right to report and the duty to report, the impacts of disclosur…
Tracking (In)Justice
There is a lack of knowledge on deaths related to police use of force across Canada. Tracking (In)Justice is a research project that is trying to make sense of the life and death outcomes of policing through developing a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and open-source database using publicly available sources. With a collaborative data governance approach, which includes communities most impacted and families of those killed by police, we docum…
‘It's Primarily Around Their Viral Load’
In Ontario, Canada, public health authorities can issue and enforce orders to people living with HIV (PLWH). However, how public health practitioners determine when someone's behaviours constitute ‘significant’ risk remains underexplored. We drew on assemblage theory to examine how HIV risk is co‐constituted through the interplay among biomedical technologies, institutional practices, legal frameworks and social discourses. We conducted 18 semi‐s…
Social life of HIV data
Data are central to public health and to the management of infectious diseases like HIV. There are ongoing tensions over what information to generate and store, how to measure variables, who gets to analyse and approve results, and to what extent data reflect reality. This review provides an overview of key concepts for understanding the social life of HIV public health data in relation to HIV: the transformation of life into different kinds of v…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Public health (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works)