Academic Publications

Academic Publications

Comparative effectiveness of take-home dosing schedules for opioid agonist treatment in British Columbia, Canada: a target trial emulation protocol using a population-based observational study

November 13th, 2025

Kurz, M., Guerra-Alejos, B. C., Hossain, M. B., Min, J. E., Yan, R., Bruneau, J., Catherine, NLA., … & Nosyk, B. (2025). Comparative effectiveness of take-home dosing schedules for opioid agonist treatment in British Columbia, Canada: a target trial emulation protocol using a population-based observational study. BMJ Open, 15(10), e098317. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-098317

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Strategies to engage and retain pregnant individuals and young mothers in the nurse-family partnership program (Canada): An interpretive descriptive study

September 17th, 2025

Marcellus, L., Jack, S. M., MacKinnon, K., Hill, M. E., Gonzalez, A., Campbell, K., Catherine, N. L. A., MacMillan, H. L., Tonmyr, L., Van Borek, N., & Varcoe, C. (2025). Strategies to engage and retain pregnant individuals and young mothers in the nurse-family partnership program (Canada): An interpretive descriptive study. Child Abuse & Neglect, 167, 107537. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107537

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History of childhood maltreatment, prenatal cortisol levels, and executive functioning: A cross-sectional study using data from the Healthy Foundations Study

July 25th, 2025

DeRubeis, V., Wang., E., Joshi, D., Catherine, N., MacMillan, H.L., Waddell, C., Boyle, M., Tonmyr, L., Atkinson, L., Jack, S.M., Varcoe, C., Andrews, K., Lever, R., Marcellus, L., & Gonzalez, A. (2025). History of childhood maltreatment, prenatal cortisol levels, and executive functioning: a cross-sectional study using data from the Healthy Foundations Study. Child Abuse & Neglect, 167, 107602. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107602

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Effectiveness of Nurse-Family Partnership on child outcomes by patterns of program intensity: Secondary evidence from a randomized controlled trial (British Columbia Healthy Connections Project)

July 24th, 2025

Catherine, N.L.A., Zheng, Y., Xie, H., Boyle, M., Jack, S., MacMillan, H., & Waddell, C. (2025). Effectiveness of Nurse-Family Partnership on child outcomes by patterns of program intensity: Secondary evidence from a randomized controlled trial (British Columbia Healthy Connections Project). Child Abuse & Neglect, 167, 107600.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107600
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Early Life Adversity and Epigenetic Aging: Findings from a 17-Year Longitudinal Study

June 12th, 2025

Barr, E., Comtois-Cabana, M., Coope, A., Coté, S. M., Kobor, M. S., Konwar, C., Lupien, S., Geoffroy, M.-C., Boivin, M., Provençal, N., Catherine, N. L. A., Dennis, J. K., & Ouellet-Morin, I. (2025). Early-Life Adversity and Epigenetic Aging: Findings from a 17-Year Longitudinal Study. Biomolecules15(6), 887. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom15060887

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