Student Research

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The following doctoral theses have been completed by students in the PhD in Health Information Science program to date.

( Note: hyperlinks are included for theses that were submitted to Scholarship@Western and are now available through Western's Electronic Theses & Dissertation Repository. Those without hyperlinks are not currently available through the e-repository).

Titles

Naeemzadah, Najibullah. The News Media's (Re)framing of Intimate Partner Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Implications for Policy Development in Canada: A Critical Content Analysis.
Phd in Health Information Science, July 2023
Supervisor: Nadine Wathen
Brogly, Chris. Observations of positive mental health indicators in undergraduates using specialized mobile apps during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Phd in Health Information Science, April 2022
Supervisor: Michael A. Bauer
Slominska, Anita. The Hepatic Happening: Confronting Waitlist Death in Liver Transplantation.
Phd in Health Information Science, April 2022
Supervisor: Susan Knabe
Javan, Tanaz. Organizational Implementation of Trauma and Violence Informed Care.
Phd in Health Information Science, March 2022
Supervisor: Nadine Wathen
Simpson, Stephanie. Implementing Health Impact Assessment as a Required Component of Government Policymaking: A Multi-Level Exploration of the Determinants of Healthy Public Policy.
Phd in Health Information Science, February 2022
Supervisor: Anita Kothari
Ikenyei, Uche. Improving Developing Countries' Health Information Systems Capacity for Infectious Disease Pandemic Responses: A Case Study of the Ebola Virus Disease and the Coronavirus Disease Pandemics.
Phd in Health Information Science, December 2021
Supervisors: Nicole Haggerty, Elysée Nouvet and Isola Ajiferuke
Walugembe, David. Exploring Variations in the Implementation of a Health Systems Level Policy to Improve Maternal and Child Health.
Phd in Health Information Science, October 2021
Supervisors: Anita Kothari and Nadine Wathen
Raji, Sadiq. Regional Integration: Physician Perceptions on Electronic Medical Record Use and Impact in South West Ontario.
Phd in Health Information Science, July 2021
Supervisors: Candace Gibson, Isola Ajiferuke and Amanda Terry
Zendo, Shamiram. Realist Evaluation of Health Equity Indicators for Local Public Health Agencies.
Phd in Health Information Science, August 2020
Supervisors: Anita Kothari and Marlene Le Ber
Canas, Eugenia. Working with Youth as Stakeholders in Mental Health System Transformation: An Institutional Ethnography of a Service Organization in ACCESS Open Minds.
Phd in Health Information Science, August 2019
Supervisor: Nadine Wathen
Zibrowski, Elaine. Easier and faster is not always better: Grounded theory of a large-scale, system transformation on the clinical work of emergency nurses and physicians.
Phd in Health Information Science, April 2019
Supervisor: Kamran Sedig
Hiebert, Bradley. Normalizing Masculinity: Explaining Processes, Factors, and Contexts That Influence How Rural Male Farmers Seek Health Information in Southwest Ontario.
Phd in Health Information Science, December 2018
Supervisors: Beverly Leipert and Sandra Regan
Sulley, Abdul. Investigating the Use of M-Health for Learning and Clinical Training by Medical Students in Ghana.
Phd in Health Information Science, December 2018
Supervisor: Isola Ajiferuke
Naimi, Anthony. Supporting dynamic and distributed decision making in acute care environments: Insights from a cognitive ethnography.
Phd in Health Information Science, March 2018
Supervisors: Nicole Haggerty and Kamran Sedig