University of Toronto, 2008, PhD

Biography

Dr. Rebecca Haines-Saah is a health sociologist and her research focuses on gender, women’s health and substance use, in particular tobacco use and cancer prevention. She completed my PhD in Behavioural Health Sciences at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health in 2008, followed by Postdoctoral Fellowships (SSHRC, CIHR) at the School of Nursing at UBC. She hs conducted several research projects using visual methods and have a developing interest in the use of digital photography, social media and online communities as tools for health promotion amongst youth and young adults.

Research

2011-2013 – Picture Me Smokefree .R.J. Haines-Saah (PI), J.L. Bottorff, K.L. Frohlich, J.L. Oliffe, J, Boomer, K. Seely. Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute – Social media interventions for tobacco prevention.

Sample Publications

Haines-Saah, RJ (2013). After the smoke has cleared: Reflections of a former smoker and tobacco researcher. Contemporary Drug Problems 40(1): 129-152.

Haines-Saah, R, Johnson, JL, Repta, R, Ostry, A, Young, ML, Sawatzky, R, Shoveller, JA, Greaves, L, Ratner, PA (2013). The privileged normalization of marijuana use: An analysis of Canadian newspaper reporting. Critical Public Health, DOI:10.1080/09581596.2013.771812

Haines-Saah, RJ, Oliffe, JL, White, CF, Bottorff, JL (2013). “It’s just not part of the culture here”: Young adult’s photo-narratives about smoking and quitting in Vancouver, Canada.Health and Place, 22: 19–28.

Haines-Saah, RJ, Oliffe, J.L. (2012). “Visual methods.” In J.L. Oliffe and L. Greaves (Eds.)Designing and Conducting Gender, Sex, and Health Research. London: SAGE Publications.

Bottorff, JL, Haines-Saah, RJ, Oliffe, JL, Sarbit, G (2012). Gender Influences in Tobacco Use and Cessation Interventions. Nursing Clinics of North America (Advances in Tobacco Control – Special Issue) 47(1): 55–70.

Frohlich, KL, Poland, B, Mykhalovskiy, E, Haines-Saah, R, Johnson, JL (2012). “Creating” the socially marginalised youth smoker: The role of tobacco control. Sociology of Health & Illness, 34 (7): 978–93.

Haines-Saah, RJ (2011). “Pretty Girls Don’t Smoke – Gender and Appearance Imperatives in Tobacco Prevention Messaging.” In K. Bell, A. Salmon and D. McNaughton (Eds.)Alcohol, tobacco, obesity: Morality, mortality and the new public health. New York: Routledge.

Dr. Rebecca Haines-Sah is a health sociologist and her research focuses on gender, women’s health and substance use.