Ross Upshur

Dados Biográficos

ID97959
NOMERoss Upshur
PRENOMESRoss
SOBRENOMEUpshur
ASSINATURAUPSHUR R
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Toronto
ORCID0000-0003-1128-0557
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS62
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES181
TOTAL COMO AUTOR62
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1999
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H6

  • Knowing Otherwise”

    Open AccessLaura Connoy, Kathleen Rice et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2026

    The COVID-19 pandemic was a time of significant crisis for most Canadians. For those living with chronic pain, it was a disproportionately challenging time. There have been calls for researchers to address the experiences of chronic pain during the time of pandemic, including for those who also struggle with systemic and structural marginalization. The purpose of this study was to highlight the experiences of people living with chronic pain and p…

  • Machine learning used to study risk factors for chronic diseases

    Open AccessMahek Shergill, Steve Durant et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2026

    OBJECTIVES: Machine learning (ML) has received significant attention for its potential to process and learn from vast amounts of data. Our aim was to perform a scoping review to identify studies that used ML to study risk factors for chronic diseases at a population level, notably those that incorporated methods to mitigate algorithmic bias. We focused on ML applications for the most common risk factors for chronic disease: tobacco use, alcohol u…

  • Comparative analysis of tuberculosis management in Indigenous North Canada and Alaska, USA from 1950s to 2019

    Open AccessHongyu Huang, Raja Faisal Abbas et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy2025

  • Digitally mediated relationships

    Open AccessCarolyn Steele Gray, Maithili Ramachandran et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2024Citada por: 1Referências: 48

  • Expediting approval for medical countermeasures to address high burden disease

    Open AccessMathew Mercuri, Kristy M Hackett et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Addressing global health crises requires a receptive and expedient policy environment to minimise delays in making available potentially life-saving technologies. Over time, the policy environment has adapted to ensure that communities have expedited access to promising technologies, such as vaccines, that can mitigate morbidity and mortality. Emergency authorisations are one such policy mechanism. While these have been employed successfully for …

  • Achieving holistic, quality-of-life focused care

    Open AccessMichelle Howard, Kathryn Pfaff et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2022

    The compassionate community movement as both a public health approach and a social model of care for various life stages is gaining traction in Canada and elsewhere. One example is the Windsor-Essex Compassion Care Community (WECCC), an evidence-based model and set of tools to improve the quality of life, health and wellness of vulnerable and aging populations by identifying and addressing upstream and downstream social and other risks to physica…

  • Challenges to evidence-informed decision-making in the context of pandemics

    Open AccessJamie Vickery, Paul Atkinson et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: The exceptional production of research evidence during the COVID-19 pandemic required deployment of scientists to act in advisory roles to aid policy-makers in making evidence-informed decisions. The unprecedented breadth, scale and duration of the pandemic provides an opportunity to understand how science advisors experience and mitigate challenges associated with insufficient, evolving and/or conflicting evidence to inform public …

  • R&D during public health emergencies

    Open AccessRachel Alberta Katz, Fabio Salamanca-Buentello et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    In January 2021, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director–general of the WHO, warned that the world was ‘on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure [that] will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world’s poorest countries’. We are now past the brink. Many high-income countries have vaccinated their populations (which, in some cases, includes third and even fourth doses) and are loosening public health and social measures, while low-income …

  • How the more life discourse constrains end-of-life conversations in the primary care of medically frail older adults

    Open AccessCelina Carter, Shan Mohammed et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2022

    There is growing emphasis for primary care clinicians to initiate and engage in end-of-life (EOL) conversations with medically frail older adults. However, EOL conversations happen most often when death is imminent or are avoided altogether. The objective of this study was to understand the socio-political forces shaping EOL conversations between clinicians, medically frail older adults and/or their care partners within an urban primary care sett…

  • Identifying priority challenges and solutions for Covid-19 vaccine delivery in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessArchchun Ariyarajah, Isha Berry et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Background The rapid implementation of global COVID-19 vaccination programs has surfaced many challenges and inequities, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, there continues to be a lack of consensus on which challenges are global priorities for action, and how to best respond to them. This study uses consensus-based methods to identify and rank the most important challenges and solutions for implementation of COVID-…

  • You can’t report your feelings

    Open AccessCorey McAuliffe, Ross Upshur et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Increasing job market demand for and availability of Canadian and U.S. global academic health programs in post-secondary education increases student demand to participate in internationally based fieldwork, while supportive resources remain weakly developed. Previous studies indicate provisions to protect the health, safety, and well-being of women students remain inadequately addressed during training, while more research to identify needs, expe…

  • Mal/adaptations

    Open AccessFabio Salamanca-Buentello, Darren K Cheng et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2022

    BACKGROUND: Opioid agonist therapy (OAT) has been severely disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The risks of opioid withdrawal, overdose, and diversion have increased, so there is an urgent need to adapt OAT to best support people who use drugs (PWUD). This review examines the views and experiences of PWUD, health care providers, and health system administrators on OAT during major disruptions to medical care to inform appropriate health system re…

  • Time series-based bibliometric analysis of a systematic review of multidisciplinary care for opioid dose reduction

    Open AccessAbhimanyu Sud, Darren K Cheng et al.ARTICLEScientometrics2021

    Bibliometric analyses of systematic reviews offer unique opportunities to explore the character of specific scientific fields. In this time series-based analysis, dynamics of multidisciplinary care for chronic pain and opioid prescribing are analyzed over a forty-four year time span. Three distinct periods are identified, each defined by distinct research areas, as well as priorities regarding the use of opioids and the appropriate management of …

  • Biomedicalization of end-of-life conversations with medically frail older adults - Malleable and senescent bodies

    Open AccessCelina Carter, Shan Mohammed et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Citada por: 1Referências: 49

  • Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19

    Ezekiel J Emanuel, Ezekiel Emanuel et al.ARTICLENew England Journal of Medicine2020

    Covid-19 is officially a pandemic. It is a novel infection with serious clinical manifestations, including death, and it has reached at least 124 countries and territories. Although the ultimate course and impact of Covid-19 are uncertain, it is not merely possible but likely that the disease will produce enough severe illness to overwhelm health care infrastructure. Emerging viral pandemics “can place extraordinary and sustained demands on publi…

  • Publication Ethics During Public Health Emergencies Such as the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Maxwell J Smith, Ross Upshur et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2020Citada por: 1Referências: 3

    Published online ahead of print May 14, 2020: e1-e2. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2020.305686)

  • Countering medical nihilism by reconnecting facts and values

    Open AccessRoss Upshur, Maya J GoldenbergARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2020Citada por: 1Referências: 20

  • ‘The Future is Probably Now’

    Open AccessJennifer Im, Susanna Mak et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2019

    BACKGROUND: Earlier end-of-life communication is critical for people with heart failure given the uncertainty and high-risk of mortality in illness. Despite this, end-of-life communication is uncommon in heart failure. Left unaddressed, lack of end-of-life discussions can lead to discordant care at the end of life. OBJECTIVE: This study explores patients' and caregivers' understanding of illness, experiences of uncertainty, and perceptions of end…

  • The mismeasurement of complexity

    Open AccessFrank Webster, Kathleen Rice et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2019

    Defining patient complexity as morbidity alone is inadequate; such models neglect syndromes and conditions that are not included in formal disease classifications. Chronic pain should be included among the chronic conditions that are considered to constitute multimorbidity. In order to provide effective patient-centered care, discussions of patient complexity must also attend to the complex social and economic circumstances in which many patients…

  • Provider values in the adoption of goal-oriented care

    Open AccessJennifer Im, Agnes Grudniewicz et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019Citada por: 1

    The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)

  • Public Health as Social Justice? A Qualitative Study of Public Health Policy-Makers' Perspectives

    Open AccessMaxwell J Smith, Alison Thompson et al.ARTICLESocial Justice Research2019Citada por: 2Referências: 34

  • Critical Reflections on Mental Well-being for Post-Secondary Students Participating in the Field of Global Health

    Open AccessCorey McAuliffe, Ross Upshur et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Mental…2018

  • Barriers to engaging in end-of-life communication in advanced illness management

    Open AccessJennifer Im, Susanna Mak et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)

  • Is ‘health equity’ bad for our health? A qualitative empirical ethics study of public health policy-makers’ perspectives

    Open AccessMaxwell J Smith, Alison Thompson et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2018Citada por: 2Referências: 22

  • Understanding the relationship between ethics, neoliberalism and power as a step towards improving the health of people and our planet

    Open AccessSolomon R Benatar, Solomon Benatar et al.ARTICLEThe Anthropocene Review2018Citada por: 3Referências: 53

    This article seeks to evaluate the ethical underpinnings of neoliberalism and its associated power relations, and to illustrate the influence of such relationships on the health of people and the planet in the so-called era of the Anthropocene. We seek to reveal the current ethical standing of neoliberalism, and to identify other ethical positions and power relations that could be more conducive to promoting peaceful progress in an era during whi…