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Overview

Margaret Cargo is affiliated with the University of Canberra in Australia. Their research spans across health professions and social sciences, with a focus on several specialized subfields including general health professions, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, management science and operations research, and transportation.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
  • Evaluation and Performance Assessment
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Global Health Workforce Issues
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Traffic and Road Safety

Margaret Cargo has contributed to numerous publications, frequently publishing in venues such as:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Health Promotion Journal of Australia
  • Journal of Transport & Health
  • Health Research Policy and Systems
  • Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

Their recent papers include:

  • "How does integrated knowledge translation (IKT) compare to other collaborative research approaches to generating and translating knowledge? Learning from experts in the field" (2020) in Health Research Policy and Systems
  • "Evaluation approaches, tools and aspects of implementation used in pharmacist interventions in residential aged care facilities: A scoping review" (2022) in Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy
  • "Identifying Environmental Determinants Relevant to Health and Wellbeing in Remote Australian Indigenous Communities: A Scoping Review of Grey Literature" (2021) in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Changing Primary School Children's Engagement in Active School Travel Using Safe Routes to School Interventions: A Rapid Realist Review" (2022) in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "The dichotomy of commissioning Indigenous health and wellbeing program evaluations: What the Funder wants vs what the Community needs" (2021) in Health Promotion Journal of Australia

Margaret Cargo frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Jenni Judd
  • Mark Daniel
  • James A. Smith
  • Amohia Boulton
  • Yvette Roe

Best Publications

  • The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) Version 2018 for Information Professionals and Researchers.

    Quan Nha Hong;Sergi Fàbregues;Gillian Bartlett;Felicity Boardman

  • The Value and Challenges of Participatory Research: Strengthening Its Practice*‡

    Margaret Cargo;Shawna L. Mercer

  • 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

  • Improving the content validity of the mixed methods appraisal tool: a modified e-Delphi study.

    Quan Nha Hong;Pierre Pluye;Sergi Fàbregues;Gillian Bartlett

  • Healing traditions: culture, community and mental health promotion with Canadian Aboriginal peoples

    Laurence Kirmayer;Cori Simpson;Margaret Cargo

  • 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

  • Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group guidance series-paper 3: methods for assessing methodological limitations, data extraction and synthesis, and confidence in synthesized qualitative findings

    Jane Noyes;Andrew Booth;Kate Flemming;Ruth Garside

  • 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

  • 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

  • Empowerment as Fostering Positive Youth Development and Citizenship.

    Margaret Cargo;Garry D. Grams;Judith M. Ottoson;Patricia Ward

  • 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

  • Overweight and obese adolescents: what turns them off physical activity?

    Ivana Stankov;Timothy Olds;Margaret Cargo

  • Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group guidance series-paper 2: methods for question formulation, searching, and protocol development for qualitative evidence synthesis.

    Janet L. Harris;Andrew Booth;Margaret Cargo;Karin Hannes

  • 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

  • Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group guidance series-paper 1: introduction.

    Jane Noyes;Andrew Booth;Margaret Cargo;Kate Flemming

  • Qualitative evidence

    Unknown

  • Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group guidance series—paper 5: methods for integrating qualitative and implementation evidence within intervention effectiveness reviews

    Angela Harden;James Thomas;Margaret Cargo;Janet Harris

  • Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group guidance series-paper 6: reporting guidelines for qualitative, implementation, and process evaluation evidence syntheses.

    Katherine Ann Flemming;Andrew Booth;Karin Hannes;M Cargo

  • Context as a Fundamental Dimension of Health Promotion Program Evaluation

    Blake Poland;Katherine L. Frohlich;Margaret Cargo

  • Suicide Among Inuit: Results From a Large, Epidemiologically Representative Follow-Back Study in Nunavut.

    Eduardo Chachamovich;Laurence J Kirmayer;John M Haggarty;Margaret Cargo

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Daniel
Mark Daniel University of Canberra
Ann C. Macaulay
Ann C. Macaulay McGill University
Lawrence W. Green
Lawrence W. Green University of California, San Francisco
Andrew Booth
Andrew Booth University of Sheffield
Pierre Pluye
Pierre Pluye McGill University
Angela Harden
Angela Harden City, University of London
Louise Potvin
Louise Potvin University of Montreal
Geoff Wong
Geoff Wong University of Oxford
Frances Griffiths
Frances Griffiths University of Warwick
Trisha Greenhalgh
Trisha Greenhalgh University of Oxford

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