Peer-Reviewed Publications
An up-to-date list of publications can be found on Google Scholar.
2024
Brubacher, L. J., Lau, L. L., Bustos, M., Kelly Mijares, M., Lim Mar, K., & Dodd, W. (in press). Exploring the use of multiple participatory tools to engage community health workers in program evaluation and implementation: A case study from the Philippines. Community Health Equity Research & Policy. doi: 10.1177/2752535X241280353
Bustos, M., Lau, L. L., Manguerra, H., & Dodd, W. (in press). Sociodemographic factors associated with concurrent stunting and wasting among children experiencing extreme poverty in the Philippines: A cross-sectional study. Nutrition and Health, 1-12. doi: 10.1177/02601060231203422
Dodd, W., Kipp, A., Lau, L. L., Little, M., Conchada, M. I., Sobreviñas, A., & Tiongco, M. (in press). Limits to transformational potential: Analysing entitlement and agency within a conditional cash transfer program in the Philippines. Social Policy and Society, 1-18. doi: 10.1017/S1474746422000215
Domingo, A., Little, M., Beggs, B., Brubacher, L. J., Lau, L. L., & Dodd, W. (2024). Examining the role of community health workers amid extreme weather events in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review. Public Health, 236, 133-143. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2024.07.023
Little, M., Dodd, W., Richter, A., & Brubacher, L.J. (2024). Food prescribing in Canada: Evidence, critiques, and opportunities. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 44(6), 279-283.
Brubacher, L. J., Little, M., Richter, A., & Dodd, W. (2024). How does fresh food prescribing fit into the social service landscape? A qualitative study in Ontario, Canada. Health Promotion & Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 44(6). doi: 10.24095/hpcdp.44.6.03
Beggs, B., Bustos, M., Brubacher, L. J., Little, M., Lau, L., & Dodd, W. (2024). Facilitators and barriers to implementing complex community-based interventions for addressing acute malnutrition in low- and lower-middle income countries: A scoping review. Nutrition and Health, 30(3), 447-462. doi: 10.1177/02601060241253327
Brubacher, L. J., Peach, L., Chen, T. T., Longboat, S., Dodd, W., Elliott, S. J., Patterson, K., & Neufeld, H. (2024). Climate change, biodiversity loss, and Indigenous Peoples’ health and wellbeing: A systematic umbrella review. PLOS Global Public Health, 4(3), e0002995. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002995
Dodd, W., Wyngaarden, S. L., Humphries, S., Lobo Tosta, E., Zelaya Portillo, V., & Orellana, P. (2024). How long-term emancipatory programming facilitates participatory evaluation: Building a methodology of participation through research with youth in Honduras. Action Research, 22(3), 243-261. doi: 10.1177/14767503231160960
Amoako, J., MacEachen, E., Dodd, W., & Lopez, K. (2024). “It is not just about my work, my identities count”: The influence of intersectional identities on the employment experiences of Black African immigrant women in Ontario, Canada. Journal of International Migration & Integration, 25, 421-442. doi: 10.1007/s12134-023-01087-9
Brubacher, L. J., Chen, T. T., Longboat, S., Dodd, W., Peach, L., Elliott, S. J., Patterson, K., & Neufeld, H. (2024). Climate change, biodiversity loss, and Indigenous Peoples’ health and wellbeing: A systematic umbrella review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 13(8). doi: 10.1186/s13643-023-02423-x
2023
Speers, S. J., Lau, L. L., Neufeld, H. T., Servano Jr., D., Go, D. J., Kipp, A., Brubacher, L. J., & Dodd, W. (2023). Caring in crisis: The experiences of local religious leaders meeting community food needs in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 5, 100154. doi: 10.1016/j.wss.2023.100154
Wei, X., Khan, N., Durrani, H., Muzaffar, N., Haldane, V., Walley, J. D., Thorpe, K., Ge, E., Ge, S., Dodd, W., Wallace, J., Aslanyan, G., Laporte, A., & Khan, M. A. (2023). Protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of digital health interventions in improving non-communicable disease management during the pandemic in rural Pakistan. PLoS ONE, 18(10), e0282543. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282543
Bustos, M., Lau, L. L., Kirkpatrick, S. I., Dubin, J. A., Manguerra, H., & Dodd, W. (2023). Examining the Association Between Household Enrollment in the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) and Wasting and Stunting Status Among Children Experiencing Poverty in the Philippines: A Cross-Sectional Study. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 35(6-7), 420-428. doi: 10.1177/10105395231189570
Gaupholm, J., Dodd, W., Papadopoulos, A., & Little, M. (2023). Exploring the double burden of malnutrition at the household level in the Philippines: Analysis of National Nutrition Survey data. PLOS One, 18(7), e0288402. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288402
Desta, B. N., Ota, S., Gournis, E., Pires, S. M., Greer, A.L., Dodd, W., & Majowicz, S. E. (2023). Estimating the under-ascertainment of COVID-19 cases in Toronto, Ontario, March to May 2020. Journal of Public Health Research, 12(2), 10.1177/22799036231174133
Lam, S., Dodd, W., Nguyen-Viet, H., Unger, F., Trang, L., Dang-Xuan, S., Skinner, K., Papadopoulos, A., & Harper, S. (2023). How can climate change and its interaction with other compounding risks be considered in evaluation? Experiences from Vietnam. Evaluation, 29(2), 228-249. doi: 10.1177/13563890231156954
Gaupholm, J., Papadopoulos, A., Asif, A., Dodd, W., & Little, M. (2023). The influence of food environments on dietary behaviour and nutrition in Southeast Asia: A systematic scoping review. Nutrition and Health, 29(2), 231-253. doi: 10.1177/02601060221112810
Wyngaarden, S. L., Humphries, S., Skinner, K., Lobo Tosta, E., Zelaya Portillo, V., Orellana, P., & Dodd, W. (2023). “You can settle here”: Immobility aspirations and capabilities among youth from rural Honduras. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(1), 212-231. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2022.2031922
Dodd, W., Brubacher, L. J., Speers, S., Servano Jr., D., Go, D. J., & Lau, L. L. (2023). The contributions of religious leaders in addressing food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines: A realist evaluation of the Rapid Emergencies and Disasters Intervention (REDI). International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 86, 103545. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103545
2022
Haldane, V., Dodd, W., Kipp, A., Ferrolino, H., Wilson K., Servano Jr., D., Lau, L. L., & Wei, X. (2022). Extending health systems resilience into communities: A qualitative study with community-based actors providing health services during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. BMC Health Services Research, 22, 1385. doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-08734-4
Bustos, M., Luu, K., Lau, L.L., & Dodd, W. (2022). Addressing tuberculosis through complex community-based interventions in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic realist review. Global Public Health, 17(9), 1924-1944. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2021.1966487
Dodd, W., Brubacher L. J. , Kipp, A., Wyngaarden, S., Haldane, V., Ferrolino, H., Wilson K., Servano Jr., D., Lau, L. L., & Wei, X. (2022). Navigating fear and care: The lived experiences of community-based health actors in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Science & Medicine, 308(2022), 115222. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115222
Desta, B., Gobena, T., Custódia, M., Fayemi, O., Ayolabi, C., Mmbaga, B., Thomas, K., Dodd, W., Pires, S., Majowicz, S., & Hald, T. (2022). Practicalities of implementing burden of disease research in Africa: Lessons from a population survey component of our multi-partner FOCAL research project. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 19(4), 1-12. doi: 10.1186/s12982-022-00113-y
Lau, L. L., Hung, N., Go, D.J., Choi, M., Dodd, W., & Wei, X. (2022). Dramatic increases in knowledge, attitudes and practices of COVID-19 observed among income poor households in the Philippines: A repeated cross-sectional study in 2020. Journal of Global Health, 12(1), 1-13. doi: 10.7189/jogh.12.05015
Wyngaarden, S. L., Humphries, S., Skinner, K., Lobo Tosta, E., Zelaya Portillo, V., Orellana, P., & Dodd, W. (2022). “This helps you see life differently”: evaluating youth development and capability expansion in remote communities of Honduras. Progress in Development Studies, 22(2), 174-195. doi: 10.1177/14649934211067609
Little, M., Rosa, E., Heasley, C., Asif, A., Dodd, W., & Richter, A. (2022). Promoting healthy food access and nutrition in primary care: A systematic scoping review of food prescription programs. American Journal of Health Promotion, 36(3), 518-536. doi: 10.1177/08901171211056584
MacDonald, H., Papadopoulos, A., Dewey, C., Humphries, S., Dodd, W., Patel, K., & Little, M. (2022). Sociodemographic factors associated with knowledge of type 2 diabetes in rural Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Rural and Remote Health, 22(1), 1-11. doi: 10.22605/RRH6855
Luu, K., Brubacher, L. J., Lau, L. L., Liu, J.A., & Dodd, W. (2022). Exploring the role of social networks in facilitating health service access among low-income women in the Philippines: A qualitative study. Health Services Insights, 15, 1-10. doi: 10.1177/11786329211068916
2021
Rameshshanker, V., Wyngaarden, S., Lau, L. L., & Dodd, W. (2021). Health system resilience to extreme weather events in Asia-Pacific: A scoping review. Climate and Development, 13(10), 944-958. doi: 10.1080/17565529.2020.1870425
Lam, S., Dodd, W., Wyngaarden, S., Skinner, K., Papadopoulos, A., & Harper, S. L. (2021). How and why are Theory of Change and Realist Evaluation used in food security contexts? A scoping review. Evaluation and Program Planning, 102008. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2021.102008
Haldane, V., Ratnapalan, S., Perera, N., Zhang, Z., Ge, S., Choi, M., Lau, L. L., Ferrolino, H., Samaraweera, S., Dodd, W., Walley, J., & Wei, X. (2021). Co-development of COVID-19 infection prevention and control guidelines in lower-middle-income countries: The ‘SPRINT’ principles. BMJ Global Health, 6, e006406. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006406
Dodd, W., Kipp, A., Bustos, M., McNeil, A., Little, M., & Lau, L. L. (2021). Humanitarian food security interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic in low- and middle-income countries: A review of actions among non-state actors. Nutrients, 13(7), 2333. doi: 10.3390/nu13072333
Little, M., Hagar, H., Zivot, C., Dodd, W., Skinner, K., Kenny, T. A., Caughey, A., Gaupholm, J., & Lemire, M. (2021). Drivers and health implications of the dietary transition among Inuit in the Canadian Arctic: a scoping review. Public Health Nutrition, 24(9), 2650-2668. doi: 10.1017/S1368980020002402
Dodd, W., Kipp, A., Nicholson, B., Lau, L. L., Little, M., Walley, J., & Wei, X. (2021). Governance of community health worker programs in a decentralized health system: a qualitative study in the Philippines. BMC Health Services Research, 21(451), 1-14. doi: 10.1186/s12913-021-06452-x
Lam, S., Dodd, W., Berrang-Ford, L., Ford, J., Skinner, K., Papadopoulos, A., & Harper, S. L. (2021). How are climate actions evaluated? A review of United Nations food security evaluations. Global Food Security, 28, 100509. doi: 10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100509
Howard, C., Rose, C., Dodd, W., Kohle, K., Scott, C., Scott, P., Cunsolo, A., & Orbinski, J. (2021). SOS! Summer of smoke: A retrospective cohort study examining the cardiorespiratory impacts of a severe and prolonged wildfire season in Canada's high subarctic. BMJ Open, 11, e037029.1-22. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037029
Radcliffe, J., Skinner, K., Spring, A., Picard, L., Benoit, F., & Dodd, W. (2021). Virtual Barriers: Unpacking the Sustainability Implications of Online Food Spaces and the Yellowknife Farmers Market’s Response to COVID-19. Nutrition Journal, 20(12), 1-13. doi: 10.1186/s12937-021-00664-x
2020
Haldane, V., Zhang, Z., Abbas, R. F., Dodd, W., Lau, L. L., Kidd, M. R., Rouleau, K., Zou, G., Chao, Z., Upshur, R., Walley, J. & Wei, X. (2020). National primary care responses to COVID-19: A rapid review of the global literature. BMJ Open, 10, e041622. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041622
Dodd, W. & Nelson, E. (2020). Shifting discourse and practice on food banks: Insights from a community-university partnership. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 31(5), 881-893. doi: 10.1007/s11266-018-0012-0
Lau, L. L., Hung, N., Dodd, W., Lim, K., Ferma, J. D., & Cole, D. C. (2020). Social trust and health seeking behaviours: A longitudinal study of a community-based active tuberculosis case finding program in the Philippines. SSM - Population Health, 12(2020), 100664. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2020.100664
Lau, L. L.,+ Dodd, W.,+ Qu, H. L., & Cole, D. C. (2020). Exploring trust in religious leaders and institutions as a mechanism for improving retention in child malnutrition interventions in the Philippines: A retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open, 10, e036091. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036091
+Joint first authors
Lau, L. L., Hung, N., Go, D. J., Ferma J., Choi, M., Dodd, W., & Wei, X. (2020). Knowledge, attitudes and practices of COVID-19 among income-poor households in the Philippines: A cross-sectional study. Journal of Global Health, 10(1), 1-11. doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.011007
Dodd, W., Gómez Cerna, M, Orellana, P., Humphries, S., Kipp, A., & Cole, D. C. (2020). Interrogating the dimensions of human security within the context of migration and rural livelihoods in Honduras. Migration & Development, 9(2), 152-172. doi: 10.1080/21632324.2019.1586342
* Study profiled by the Global Migration & Health Initiative.
Little, M., Humphries, S., Dodd, W., Patel, K., & Dewey, C. (2020). Socio-demographic patterning of the individual-level double burden of malnutrition in a rural population in South India: A cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health, 20, 675(2020). doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-08679-5
Dodd, W., Gómez Cerna, M, Orellana, P., Humphries, S., Sadoine, M. L., Zombré, D., Zinszer, K., Kipp, A., & Cole, D. C. (2020). Factors associated with seasonal food insecurity among small-scale subsistence farming households in rural Honduras. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(3), 706. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17030706
2019
Lee, S., Lau, L., Lim, K., Ferma, J., Dodd, W., & Cole, D. C. (2019). The presence of cough and tuberculosis: Active case finding outcomes in the Philippines. Tuberculosis Research and Treatment, vol. 2019, Article ID 4578329, 9 pages. doi: 10.1155/2019/4578329
Lam, S., Dodd, W., Skinner, K., Papadopoulos. A., Zivot, C., Ford, J., Garcia, P. J., IHACC Research Team, & Harper, S. L. (2019). Community-based monitoring of Indigenous food security in a changing climate: Global trends and future directions. Environmental Research Letters, 14(7), 1-14. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab13e4
Lam, S., Dodd, W., Whynot, J., & Skinner, K. (2019). How is gender being addressed in the international development evaluation literature? A meta-evaluation. Research Evaluation, 28(2), 158-168. doi: 10.1093/reseval/rvy042
2018
Dodd, W., Scott, P., Howard, C., Scott, C., Rose, C., Cunsolo, A., & Orbinski, J. (2018). Lived experience of a record wildfire season in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 109(3), 327-337. doi: 10.17269/s41997-018-0070-5 *Study reported on in The Narwhal, The Star (Calgary), The Aspen Times, CBC British Columbia, and Vice News. Study also included as a case study in the Lancet Countdown 2018 Report: Briefing for Canadian Policymakers.
Little, M., Zivot, C., Humphries, S., Dodd, W., Patel, K., & Dewey, C. (2018). Burden and Determinants of Anemia in a Rural Population in South India: A Cross-Sectional Study. Anemia, vol. 2018, Article ID 7123976, 9 pages. doi: 10.1155/2018/7123976
Dodd, W., Wyngaarden, S., Humphries, S., Patel, K., Majowicz, S., Little, M., & Dewey, C. (2018). The relationship between MGNREGA and internal labour migration in Tamil Nadu, India. European Journal of Development Research, 30(2), 178-194. doi: 10.1057/s41287-017-0122-3
2017 and earlier
Dodd, W., Humphries, S., Patel, K., Majowicz, S., Little, M., & Dewey, C. (2017). Determinants of internal migrant health and the healthy migrant effect in South India: a mixed methods study. BMC International Health and Human Rights, 17(23). doi: 10.1186/s12914-017-0132-4
Dodd, W., Humphries, S., Patel, K., Majowicz, S., & Dewey, C. (2017). The internal migration-development nexus: evidence from southern India. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 26(1), 56-83. doi: 10.1177/0117196816684349
Nelson, E. & Dodd, W. (2017). Collaborating for community food security: Emerging scholar participation in a community-university partnership. Action Research, 15(4), 402-423. doi: 10.1177/1476750316656041
Dodd, W., Humphries, S., Patel, K., Majowicz, S., & Dewey, C. (2016). Determinants of temporary labour migration in southern India. Asian Population Studies, 12(3), 294-311. doi: 10.1080/17441730.2016.1207929
Dodd, W., King, N., Humphries, S., Little, M., & Dewey, C. (2016). Self-reported morbidity and health service utilization in rural Tamil Nadu, India. Social Science & Medicine, 161, 118-125. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.05.035 *Study reported on by The Times of India in November 2016
Preibisch, K., Dodd, W., & Su, Y. (2016). Pursuing the capabilities approach within the migration–development nexus. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42(13), 2111-2127. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2016.1176523
Little, M., Humphries, S., Patel, K., Dodd, W., & Dewey, C. (2016). Factors associated with glucose tolerance, pre-diabetes, and type 2 diabetes in a rural community of south India: A cross sectional study. Diabetology and Metabolic Syndrome, 8(21), 1-11. doi: 10.1186/s13098-016-0135-7
Dodd, W. (2011). Towards a political ecology of nutritional transitions in Central America: the construction of nutrient-deficient ecologies. Totem: The UWO Journal of Anthropology, 19(1): 119-136.
Reports
Preibisch, K., Dodd, W., & Su, Y. (2014). Irreconcilable differences? Pursuing the capabilities approach within the global governance of migration. Solidarity Center: Washington D.C.
Dodd, W., Nelson, E., Cairney, K., Clark, J., & Cartaginese, A. (2013). Using emergency food services in Guelph-Wellington. Community-Engaged Scholarship Institute: Guelph, Ontario.
Published Conference Proceedings
Dodd, W., Howard, C., Rose, C., Scott, C., Scott, P., Cunsolo, A., & Orbinski, J. (2018). The summer of smoke: ecosocial and health impacts of a record wildfire season in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The Lancet Global Health, 6, S30.