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Ann C. Macaulay

Ann C. Macaulay

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
36
Citations
9222
World Ranking
6367
National Ranking
380

Overview

Ann C. Macaulay is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and specializes in health professions research. Their work predominantly focuses on health policy implementation science, mental health and patient involvement, and health sciences research and education.

Their research covers a range of topics, including child nutrition and water access, poverty, education and child welfare, evaluation and performance assessment, and participatory visual research methods. These areas reflect a multidimensional approach to health professions, combining both general health concerns and specific social determinants.

Macaulay has contributed to several publications, with recent papers including:

  • How does integrated knowledge translation (IKT) compare to other collaborative research approaches to generating and translating knowledge? Learning from experts in the field (2020), published in Health Research Policy and Systems
  • Key issues for participatory research in the design and implementation of humanitarian assistance: a scoping review (2020), published in Global Health Action
  • Reflecting on the use of Concept Mapping as a Method for Community-Led Analysis of Talking Circles (2021), published in Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health
  • Atikamekw Nehirowisiw Mirowatisiwin (2021), published in Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health
  • Planned Parenthood as a Public Health Imperative: A Participatory Research Exploring the Use of Contraception by Indigenous Women of Chilcapamba, Ecuador (2020), published in Collaborations A Journal of Community-Based Research and Practice

Frequent coauthors in Macaulay's research include Jon Salsberg, Brittany McBeath, Treena Delormier, Sonia Périllat-Amédée, and Alex M. McComber. These collaborations underscore a network of scholars working primarily within health research and community-based approaches.

Their publications have appeared in multiple venues such as:

  • Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health
  • Health Research Policy and Systems
  • Global Health Action
  • Collaborations A Journal of Community-Based Research and Practice

Within the broader field of health professions, Macaulay's subfields include general health professions, nutrition and dietetics, safety research, management science and operations research, and sociology and political science. This interdisciplinary engagement supports a comprehensive perspective on health challenges and research methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Testing the reliability and efficiency of the pilot Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) for systematic mixed studies review

    Romina Pace;Pierre Pluye;Gillian Bartlett;Ann C. Macaulay

  • Uncovering the Benefits of Participatory Research: Implications of a Realist Review for Health Research and Practice

    Justin Jagosh;Ann C. Macaulay;Pierre Pluye;Jon Salsberg

  • Participatory research maximises community and lay involvement

    Ann C Macaulay;Laura E Commanda;William L Freeman;Nancy Gibson

  • A realist evaluation of community-based participatory research: partnership synergy, trust building and related ripple effects

    Justin Jagosh;Paula L. Bush;Jon Salsberg;Ann C. Macaulay

  • Implementing participatory intervention and research in communities: lessons from the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project in Canada.

    Louise Potvin;Margaret Cargo;Alex M McComber;Treena Delormier

  • Patient and public engagement in research and health system decision making: A systematic review of evaluation tools

    Antoine Boivin;Audrey L'Espérance;François-Pierre Gauvin;Vincent Dumez

  • The Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project: Intervention, Evaluation, and Baseline Results of a Diabetes Primary Prevention Program with a Native Community in Canada☆☆☆

    Ann C. Macaulay;Ann C. Macaulay;Gilles Paradis;Gilles Paradis;Louise Potvin;Edward J. Cross

  • How does integrated knowledge translation (IKT) compare to other collaborative research approaches to generating and translating knowledge? Learning from experts in the field.

    Tram Nguyen;Tram Nguyen;Ian D. Graham;Ian D. Graham;Kelly J. Mrklas;Kelly J. Mrklas;Sarah Bowen

  • Participatory research with Native community of Kahnawake creates innovative code of research ethics

    Ann C. Macaulay;Ann C. Macaulay;Treena Delormier;Alex M. McComber;Edward J. Cross

  • Critical reflections on realist review: insights from customizing the methodology to the needs of participatory research assessment

    Justin Jagosh;Pierre Pluye;Geoff Wong;Margaret Cargo

  • Impact of a diabetes prevention program on body size, physical activity, and diet among Kanien'keha:ka (Mohawk) children 6 to 11 years old: 8-year results from the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project.

    Gilles Paradis;Lucie Lévesque;Ann C. Macaulay;Margaret Cargo

  • Assessing the outcomes of participatory research: protocol for identifying, selecting, appraising and synthesizing the literature for realist review.

    Justin Jagosh;Pierre Pluye;Ann C Macaulay;Jon Salsberg

  • Understanding community-based participatory research through a social movement framework: a case study of the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project.

    Marie-Claude Tremblay;Debbie H. Martin;Alex M. McComber;Amelia McGregor

  • Priorities in adolescent health care: the teenager's viewpoint.

    M. Malus;P. A. LaChance;Lubomir Lamy;A. Macaulay

  • Participatory research: What is the history? Has the purpose changed?

    Ann C Macaulay

  • Assessing the benefits of participatory research: A rationale for a realist review

    Ann C. Macaulay;Justin Jagosh;Robbyn Seller;Jim Henderson

  • Successful strategies to engage research partners for translating evidence into action in community health: a critical review.

    Jon Salsberg;David Parry;Pierre Pluye;Soultana Macridis

  • Organizational participatory research: a systematic mixed studies review exposing its extra benefits and the key factors associated with them

    Paula L. Bush;Pierre Pluye;Christine Loignon;Vera Granikov

  • Moving the frontiers forward: incorporating community-based participatory research into practice-based research networks.

    Ann C. Macaulay;Paul A. Nutting

  • Practice-based Research is Community Engagement

    John M. Westfall;Lyle J. Fagnan;Margaret Handley;Jon Salsberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret Cargo
Margaret Cargo University of Canberra
Pierre Pluye
Pierre Pluye McGill University
Louise Potvin
Louise Potvin University of Montreal
Gilles Paradis
Gilles Paradis McGill University
Geoff Wong
Geoff Wong University of Oxford
Lawrence W. Green
Lawrence W. Green University of California, San Francisco
Jane A. Buxton
Jane A. Buxton University of British Columbia
Trisha Greenhalgh
Trisha Greenhalgh University of Oxford
Larry Davidson
Larry Davidson Yale University
Irene J Higginson
Irene J Higginson King's College London

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