Molly Ryan
Molly is a research coordinator located in Halifax, NS. She holds a BA Hon in Social Anthropology from Dalhousie University and a Masters in Public Health from the University of Toronto. She enjoys bringing social science and health services research together. Prior to working in pediatric critical care, her six years of professional research experience included qualitative studies on topics ranging from Ebola epidemic response teams, parental perspectives on vaccine hestitancy, to the lived experiences of couples in mixed-HIV-serostatus relationships.
Recent work
1. Foster JR, Lee LA, Seabrook JA, Ryan M, Slumkoski C, Walls M, Betts LJ, Burgess SA, Garros D. 2023 [In Press]. A survey of clincian impact and experience with restricted family presence during COVID-19. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia.
2. Yang M, Daftary A, Mendelsohn J, Ryan M, Bullock S, Bisaillon L, Bourne A, Lebouché B, Thompson T, Calzavara L. 2023. “Live a normal life”: exploring the resilience of HIV mixed-status dyads in Canadian contexts. PLoS One.
3. Foster JR, Lee L, Seabrook J, Ryan M, Betts L, Burgess S, Slumkoski C, Walls M, Garros D. Family presence in Canadian PICUs during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed methods environmental scan of policy and practice. CMAJ Open.
4. Fakhory N, Lee L, Seabrook J, Ryan M, Miller L, Foster JR. 2022. Outcomes associated with Family Presence at the Bedside of Critically Ill Children in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Scoping Review Protocol. JBI Evidence Synthesis.
5. Ryan M, Mendelsohn J, Mishra A, Yang M, Bullock S, Lebouché B, Calzavara L, & Positive Plus One Team. 2022. Dual Pharmaceutical Citizenship: Exploring biomedicalization in the daily lives of mixed-HIV-serostatus couples in Canada. Social Science & Medicine, 298, 114863.
6. Ryan M, Giles-Vernick T, Graham, JE. 2019. Technologies of trust in epidemic response: Openness, reflexivity, and accountability during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. BMJ Global Health, 4, e001272.
7. Ryan M. 2019. Dying Professions: Exploring Emotion Management Among Doctors and Funeral Directors. Journal of Undergraduate Ethnography, 9(1), 50-64
In my own words
Being a part of the CCCTG has been a great way to connect with fellow researchers across Canada! I am currently co-leading a CCCTG Research Coordinator Grant funded project on how PICU clinicians learn to manage encountering death as a part of work.