Peer-Reviewed Publications
An up-to-date list of publications can be found on Google Scholar.
2025
Brubacher, L. J., Little, M., Grewal, A., Stringer, E., Richter, A., & Dodd, W. (2025). Evaluating a 52-week fresh food prescribing program in Ontario, Canada: A mixed-methods study on food insecurity, fruit and vegetable intake, and health. BMC Primary Care, 26(1), 1-14. doi: 10.1186/s12875-025-02907-w
Beggs, B., Brubacher, L. J., Bustos, M., Lau, L., Liu, J., & Dodd, W. (2025). Community health worker contributions to climate resilient health systems: A qualitative study of how community health workers navigate extreme weather events in the Philippines. SSM – Health Systems, 5, 100130. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmhs.2025.100130
Brubacher, L. J., Lau, L. L., Bustos, M., Mijares, M. K., Lim-Mar, K., & Dodd, W. (2025). 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, 45(4), 351-363. doi: 10.1177/2752535X241280353
Dodd, W., Brubacher, L. J., Bustos, M., Mijares, M. K., Lim-Mar, K., & Lau, L. (2025). Amplifying community health worker voices to examine the implementation and scaling of a community health program: A qualitative study in the Philippines. Health Services Insights, 18, 1-11. doi: 10.1177/11786329251352658
Dodd, W., Brubacher, L. J., Bustos, M., Mijares, M. K., Lim-Mar, K., Little, M., & Lau, L. (2025). “I am the bridge”: examining intersectoral collaboration among community health workers to address maternal and child health in the Philippines. SSM-Health Systems, 4, 100057. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmhs.2025.100057
Gómez, M., Humphries, S., Kindsvater, S., Jiménez, J., Orellana, P., Wyngaarden, S., & Dodd, W. (2025). Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals through participatory research: long-term impacts of farmer participation on sustainable land use and livelihoods in Honduras. Agriculture & Food Security, 13(61). doi: 10.1186/s40066-024-00513-0
Brubacher, L. J., Rajeswaran, K., McDonald, K., Keczem, S., & Dodd, W. (2025). Engaging people with lived experience in mental health service co-design in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion, 1-24. doi: 10.1177/26320770251359606
Desta, B. N., Pires, S. M., Hald, T., Gobena, T., Macuamule, C., Moiane, B., Fayemi, O. E., Ayolabi, C. I., Akanni, G., Mmbaga, B. T., Thomas, K. M., Kumburu, H., Dodd, W., & Majowicz, S. E. (2025). The epidemiology of acute gastrointestinal illness in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Tanzania: a population survey. Epidemiology & Infection, 153, e63. doi: 10.1017/S095026882500038X
Bustos, M., Lau, L., Manguerra, H., & Dodd, W. (2025). Sociodemographic factors associated with concurrent stunting and wasting among children experiencing extreme poverty in the Philippines: A cross-sectional study. Nutrition and Health, 31(2), 585-596. doi: 10.1177/02601060231203422
2024
Dodd, W., Kipp, A., Lau, L. L., Little, M., Conchada, M. I., Sobreviñas, A., & Tiongco, M. (2024). Limits to transformational potential: Analysing entitlement and agency within a conditional cash transfer program in the Philippines. Social Policy and Society, 23(2), 392-409. 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
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 and earlier
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
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
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.