Janice Graham

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Janice Graham Dalhousie University Profile

Research Interests

Dr. Graham is an anthropologist of science, technology and medicine in the Department of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases). She studies the cultural, technical and moral tensions in regulating one health. Interested in the moral basis of profit when disease becomes a market opportunity, she works among those who develop, regulate, commercialize, implement and use emerging pharmaceuticals and vaccines to examine their safety and efficacy.

Selected publications  

  • Graham, J.E., Lees, S., Le Marcis F., Faye, S., Ronse, M., Lorway, R., Abramowitz, S., Peeters Grietens, K.  (2018) Prepared for the “unexpected”? Lessons from the 2014-16 Ebola epidemic in West Africa on integrating emergent theory designs into outbreak response. BMJ Global Health 2018;3:e000990. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2018-000990 

  • Graham, J.E., & Jones, M. (2016). Just Evidence: Opening Health Knowledge to a Parliament of Evidence. In Science, Information, and Policy Interface for Effective Coastal and Ocean Management. In B.H. MacDonald, S.S. Soomai, E.M. De Santo, & P.G. Wells (Eds.), Science, Information, and Policy Interface for Effective Coastal and Ocean Management (Ch. 14). Pp. 325-349. Boca Raton, Florida, United States: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group. Contact author for full-text

  • Graham, J.E. (2016) Ambiguous Capture: Collaborative Capitalism and the Meningitis Vaccine Project. Medical Anthropology: Cross-cultural studies in health and illness, 35(5) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01459740.2016.1167055

  • Graham, J.E. (co-authored) (2015) Emergency Ebola Anthropology Network Advisory Brief: Culture and Clinical Trials. Emergency Ebola Anthropology Network. http://www.ebola-anthropology.net/theme/clinical-trials-research/?post_type=key_messages

  • Graham, J.E. and Nuttall, R. (2013) Faster access to new drugs: Fault lines between Health Canada’s regulatory intent and Industry innovation practices. Ethics in Biology, Engineering & Medicine – An International Journal, 4(3):231-239. Contact author for full-text

  • Graham, J.E., Borda-Rodrigeuz, A., Huzair, F., Zinck, E. (2012) Capacity for a global vaccine safety system: The perspective of national regulatory authorities. Vaccine, 30(33):4953-4959. DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.05.045

  • Graham, J.E. and Stephenson, P. (2010) (eds.) Contesting Aging and Loss. Toronto: University of Toronto Press

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