Our Team

Mary-Ann M. Standing

Director, CHCR & SIDR
 mmmacswain@upei.ca

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Robyn Kydd

Senior Research Scientist 
rkydd@upei.ca

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Kaleigh Duffy

Administrative Assistant
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Kate Kelly

Research Scientist
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Alexandra Ouedraogo

Data Scientist 
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Mary-Ann MacSwain Standing

Director, CHCR & Secure Island Data Repository (SIDR)

BA (Honours), M.Sc. (in progress)

Mary-Ann Standing is the Director of the Centre and the  Secure Island Data Repository. She is currently completing her Master of Science in Health Management – Epidemiology (University of Prince Edward Island) and previously earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with Honours (University of Prince Edward Island).

Before joining the Centre in 2016 as a Data Analyst, Mary-Ann worked in the PEI Chief Public Health Office (Department of Health and Wellness) as a Chronic Disease Epidemiologist and worked as a Health Information Specialist in the Health Information Unit of Health PEI.

She brings more than fifteen years of experience working in research and evaluation in diverse areas including agriculture, mental health and addictions, corrections, public health, and applied health research. She specializes in research utilizing administrative data.

Publications

  • Sibley A., Hansen D., Morrison H., Standing M.A., Rowswell C., Rowe B. (2021). Increasing adult vaccinations in a Canadian emergency department: A randomized clinical trial. Submitted to Canadian Medical Journal Association.
  • Hansen, D., Sibley, A., MacSwain, M., Morrison, H. & Rowswell, C. (2018). The feasibility of pertussis immunization in a Canadian emergency department. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 20(S1), S79. doi:10.1017/cem.2018.260.
  • McClure, C., MacSwain, M., Morrison, H. & Sanford, C.J. (2015), Human papillomavirus vaccine uptake in boys and girls in a school-based vaccine delivery program in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Vaccine, 31(15), 1786–1790. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.02.047.
  • Farrell MacDonald, S., MacSwain, M., Cheverie, M., Tiesmaki, M., & Fischer, B. (2014). Impact of methadone maintenance treatment on women offenders’ post-release recidivism. European Addiction Research, 20(4), 192-199. DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.02.047
  • MacSwain, M., Farrell MacDonald, S., Cheverie, M. & Fischer, B. (2014). Assessing the impact of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) on post-release recidivism among male federal correctional inmates in Canada. Criminal Justice and Behaviour, 41(3), 380-394. doi:10.1177/0093854813501495

Reports

  • MacSwain Standing, M., Kydd, R., & MacDougall, L. (2021). PEI 2019 Gambling Prevalence Study. Charlottetown, PE: Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit.
  • MacSwain, M., Kydd, R., Munro, M., Krause, J. (2020). Evaluation Progress Report for: Mobile Integrated Health in Prince Edward Island Home and Community Care Seniors Check-in Program. PEI Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit & Centre for Health and Community Research.
  • MacSwain, M., Kydd, R., Munro, M., Krause, J. (2020). Interim Evaluation Plan for: Mobile Integrated Health in Prince Edward Island Home and Community Care Seniors Check-in Program. PEI Maritime SPOR SUPPPORT Unit & Centre for Health and Community Research.
  • Kydd, R., MacSwain, M., Krause, J. (2019, June 26). Interim Evaluation Progress Report for: Mobile Integrated Health Initiative in Prince Edward Island Seniors Check-in Program. Centre for Health and Community Research, University of Prince Edward Island & the Department of Health and Wellness, Province of Prince Edward Island.
  • MacSwain, M., Patterson, M., Kephart, G. & Krause, J. (2016). Examining the drivers of high cost healthcare usage in Prince Edward Island. Charlottetown, PE: Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit.
  • Bradley, J., Cheverie, C., Gaudreau, K., MacSwain, M., McClure, C., Morrison, H. et al. (2016). Health for All Islanders: Promote, Prevent, Protect: PEI Chief Public Health Officer’s Report 2016. Charlottetown, PE: Document Publishing Centre, Province of PEI.
  • Cheverie, C., Gaudreau, K., Jelley, J., MacSwain, M., McBurney, S., McClure, C. et al. (2014). Promote, Prevent, Protect: Prince Edward Island Chief Public Health Officer’s Report and Health Trends 2014. Charlottetown, PE: Document Publishing Centre, Province of PEI.
  • MacSwain, M., Cheverie, M., Farrell MacDonald, S. & Johnson, S. (2014). Characteristics of women participants in the methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) program. Ottawa, ON: Correctional Service Canada. Available at http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/research/005008-0307-eng.shtml
  • MacSwain, M., Cheverie, M., Farrell MacDonald, S. & Johnson, S. (2014). Post release outcomes of methadone maintenance treatment program participants: A comparative study. Ottawa, ON: Correctional Service Canada. Available at http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/research/005008-0322-eng.shtml

Presentations

  • MacSwain, M. (2021). Understanding the Experiences of High-Resource Healthcare Patients in PEI: An Emergent Multistage Mixed Methods Study. [Poster]. Atlantic Veterinary College Health Management Graduate Seminar.
  • MacSwain, M. (2019, May 28). Secure Island Data Repository (SIDR). [Presentation]. Mi’kmaq Confederacy PEI, Summerside, PEI.
  • Krause, J., MacSwain, M. (2019, May). Examining Drivers of High Resource Healthcare Usage in PEI. [Presentation]. Provincial Patient Flow Advisory Committee.
  • MacSwain, M., Arsenault, H., Kydd, R., & Krause, J. (2018, November 13-15). Understanding the experiences of high-resource healthcare patients in PEI: an emergent mixed methods study. [Presentation]. SPOR Summit, Ottawa, ON; (2018, October 27-29). 24th Qualitative Health Research Conference, Halifax, NS.
  • MacSwain, M., Arsenault, H., Kydd, R., & Krause, J. (2018, May 29-31). Examining the drivers of high cost healthcare use in PEI. Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research Conference, Montreal, QC.
  • MacSwain, M., Patterson, M., Kephart, G. & Krause, J. (2017, May 24-26). Examining the drivers of high cost healthcare usage in Prince Edward Island. Canadian Association for Health Services Policy Research Conference, Toronto, ON.

Robyn Kydd

Senior Researcher

B.Sc., M.Sc., DVM

Robyn Kydd holds a Master of Science in Community Health and Epidemiology (College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan), a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan), and a Bachelor of Science in Biology (University of Victoria).

Robyn has conducted research and taught in the field of public health epidemiology for over fifteen years. She has experience conducting and contributing to research studies and evaluation projects on a wide variety of topics including applied health research, social epidemiology, alcohol epidemiology, reproductive and sexual health, and zoonotic diseases.

Before joining the team in 2017, Robyn worked as an Epidemiology Research and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine (University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ) for seven years. During this time, she collaborated on research projects with the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development (Cohort) Study, co-authored a report describing the alcohol-attributable burden of disease and injury in New Zealand, and taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate epidemiology classes.

She brings to the team considerable knowledge in epidemiology, public health, program evaluation, survey development, systematic and scoping reviews, comparative risk assessment methodology, data analysis and biostatistics.

Publications

  • Connor J.L., Kydd R., Maclennan, B., Shield, K., & Rehm, J. (2016). Alcohol-attributable cancer deaths under 80 years of age in New Zealand. Drug and Alcohol Review, 36(3), 415-423. doi:10.1111/dar.12443.
  • Connor, J.L., Kydd, R.M., & Dickson, N.P. (2015). Alcohol involvement in sexual behaviour and adverse sexual health outcomes from 26 to 38 years of age. PLoS ONE, 10(8), e0135660. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135660
  • Connor, J., Kydd, R., Shield, K., & Rehm, J. (2015). The burden of disease and injury attributable to alcohol in New Zealanders under 80 years of age: Marked disparities by ethnicity and sex. NZMJ, 128(1409), 15-28.
  • Kydd, R. & Connor, J. (2015). Inconsistency in reporting abstention and heavy drinking frequency: Associations with sex and socioeconomic status and potential impacts. Alcohol and Alcoholism. 50(3), 333-345. doi:10.1093/alcalc/agu106.
  • Wilhelm, B., Rajić, A., Waddell, L., Parker, S., Harris, J., Roberts, K., Kydd, R., Greig, J., & Baynton, A. (2009). The prevalence of zoonotic or potentially zoonotic bacteria, antimicrobial resistance and somatic cell counts in organic dairy production: current knowledge and research gaps. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. 6(5): 525-539. doi:10.1089/fpd.2008.0181.

Reports

  • MacSwain Standing, M., Kydd, R., & MacDougall, L. (2021). PEI 2019 Gambling Prevalence Study. Charlottetown, PE: Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit.
  • MacSwain, M., Kydd, R., Munro, M., Krause, J. (2020). Evaluation Progress Report for: Mobile Integrated Health in Prince Edward Island Home and Community Care Seniors Check-in Program. PEI Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit & Centre for Health and Community Research.
  • MacSwain, M., Kydd, R., Munro, M., Krause, J. (2020). Interim Evaluation Plan for: Mobile Integrated Health in Prince Edward Island Home and Community Care Seniors Check-in Program. PEI Maritime SPOR SUPPPORT Unit & Centre for Health and Community Research.
  • Kydd, R., MacSwain, M., Krause, J. (2019, June 26). Interim Evaluation Progress Report for: Mobile Integrated Health Initiative in Prince Edward Island Seniors Check-in Program. Centre for Health and Community Research, University of Prince Edward Island & the Department of Health and Wellness, Province of Prince Edward Island.
  • Connor, J., Kydd, R., Rehm, J., & Shield, K. (2013). Alcohol-attributable burden of disease and injury in New Zealand: 2004 and 2007 Research report commissioned by the Health Promotion Agency. Wellington: Health Promotion Agency, p.169.
  • Kydd, R. (2007). An overview of program evaluation methods and their potential application in food safety and zoonotic public health. Report commissioned by the Policy Advice and Effectiveness Program, Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Public Health Agency of Canada, 46p.
  • Kydd, R., & Wall, P. (2007). Program evaluation of IICUSP (International Interdisciplinary Community-University Student Partnership). Report commissioned by the Community-University Institute for Social Research, 100p.
  • Kydd, R., Janzen, B. L., Muhajarine, N., & Behl, L. (2006). Saskatoon Police Service: work, family and health report. Saskatoon Police Service, City of Saskatoon, 42p.

Presentations

  • MacSwain, M., Arsenault, H., Kydd, R., & Krause, J. (2018, November 13-15). Understanding the experiences of high-resource healthcare patients in PEI: an emergent mixed methods study. [Presentation]. SPOR Summit, Ottawa, ON; (2018, October 27-29). 24th Qualitative Health Research Conference, Halifax, NS.
  • MacSwain, M., Arsenault, H., Kydd, R., & Krause, J. (2018, May 29-31). Examining the drivers of high cost healthcare use in PEI. Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research Conference, Montreal, QC.

Kaleigh Duffy

Administrative Assistant

BBA, MGA

Kaleigh is the Administrative Assistant at the UPEI Center for Health and Community Research. She supports the coordination of administrative operations and research projects for the team.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from UPEI and a master’s degree in Global Affairs from UPEI and the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. During her studies, she placed an emphasis on climate change and adaptation and hopes to explore further the negative implications of climate change when considering various social determinants of health.

Kate Kelly

Research Scientist

PhD, MA, BA(Honours)

Kate Kelly holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (University of New Brunswick), a Master of Arts in Cognitive Psychology (University of Toronto, funded by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship), and Bachelor of Arts (Honours Psychology) from the University of PEI. Her doctoral work investigated the use of social media-based patient navigation to support caregivers of children with complex care needs.

Prior to joining the team in 2024, Kate was a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Applied Human Sciences at UPEI, where she led two projects on vaccine confidence (funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada) and the development of a province-wide community navigation program for families with young children. Her research interests include patient navigation, patient-oriented research, knowledge syntheses, and knowledge translation.

Publications

  • Kelly, K., Montelpare, W., Campbell, A., Salijevic, A., Doak, S. & Michael, L. (2023). Evaluation of the readability, understandability, and actionability of COVID-19 public health messaging in Atlantic Canada. Frontiers in Communication, Health Communication. 
  • Kelly, K., Mears, K., Doak, S., Macartney, G., Burns, M., Loo, J., Michael, L., Jia, B. & Montelpare, W. (2023). Characteristics of immunisation support programmes in Canada: a scoping review and environmental scan. BMJ Open, 13:e070400. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2022-070400
  • Kelly, K., Doucet, S., Luke, A., Azar, R. & Montelpare, W. (2022). Experiences, motivations, and perceived impact of participation in a Facebook-based support group for caregivers of children and youth with complex care needs: Qualitative descriptive study. JMIR Pediatrics & Parenting. doi: 10.2196/33172
  • Kelly, K., Doucet, S., Luke, A., Azar, R. & Montelpare, W. (2022). Exploring the use of a Facebook-based support group for caregivers of children and youth with complex care needs: Qualitative descriptive study. JMIR Pediatrics & Parenting. https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/33170
  • Kelly, K., McDuffee, L. & Mears, L. (2021). The effect of human–horse interactions on equine behaviour, physiology, and welfare: a scoping review. Animals, 11(10). doi:10.3390/ani11102782
  • Kelly, K., Doucet, S. & Luke, A. (2019). Exploring the roles, functions, and background of patient navigators and case managers: A scoping review. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 98(October), 27-47.

Presentations

  • Kelly, K., Davies, P., Connolly, MC., Ling, J., Nadeau, N, & Montelpare, W. (2024, September). Addressing the social care needs of at-risk primary care patients through community navigation in Prince Edward Island. Social Prescribing Conference, Canadian Red Cross. Toronto, Ontario.
  • Kelly, K., Doak, S., Salijevic, A., Singh, A., Nadeau, N., Bentley, E. & Montelpare, W. (2024, June). Using motivational interviewing to address vaccine confidence in Prince Edward Island: A community-based approach. Knowledge Translation (KT) Canada Workshop. Dalhousie University. Halifax, Nova Scotia. 
  • Kelly, K., Salijevic, A., Ling, J., Doak, S., Singh, A., Nadeau, N. & Montelpare, W. (2024, April). Supporting vaccine confidence among families in Prince Edward Island using motivational interviewing: A community-based approach. Public Health 2024, Canadian Public Health Association Conference. Halifax, Nova Scotia. 
  • Kelly, K., Salijevic, A., Baidoobonso, S., Hudson, A., Ling, J., Burns, M., Campbell, A., Loo, J., Doak, S. & Montelpare, W. (2023, May). Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine update in Prince Edward Island, Canada: A population survey. Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR). Montreal, QC.
  • Kelly, K., Doucet, S., Luke, A., Azar, R. & Montelpare, W. (2022, April). Peer-to-peer support on Facebook for caregivers of children with complex needs. Canadian Healthcare Navigation Conference (CHNC). Virtual.  

 

Alexandra Ouédraogo

Data Scientist

B.Sc., M.Sc.

Alexandra (Alex) is the Data Scientist at UPEI’s Centre for Health and Community Research (CHCR), where she provides guidance and support related to the use of administrative data from the Secure Island Data Repository.

Before joining CHCR, Alex worked as an epidemiologist at the Public Health Agency of Canada and an environmental health analyst at ICES Western. Her areas of work included: spatial epidemiology, health services use and access to care research, and public health surveillance of child welfare.

She holds a MSc in Health Geography from the department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics (University of Ottawa), a certificate in Population Health Data Analysis (University of Victoria) and a BSc in Biology (Saint Mary’s University).

Publications

  • Pollock, N. J., Ouédraogo, A. M., Trocm, N., Hovdestad, W., Miskie, A., Crompton, L., … & Tonmyr, L. (2024). Rates of out-of-home care among children in Canada: an analysis of national administrative child welfare data. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice, 44(4), 152.
  • Crighton, E. J., Ouédraogo, A. M., Sawada, M., & Mestre, T. A. (2024). Patterns and determinants of health care utilization among people with Parkinson’s disease: A population-based analysis in Ontario, Canada. Plos one, 19(6), e0305062.
  • Mathews, M., Ouédraogo, A. M., Lam, M., Gozdyra, P., & Green, M. (2023). A cross‐sectional study of community‐level physician retention and hospitalization in rural Ontario, Canada. The Journal of Rural Health, 39(1), 69-78.
  • Clemens, K. K., Ouédraogo, A. M., Li, L., Voogt, J. A., Gilliland, J., Krayenhoff, E. S., Leroyer, S. & Shariff, S. Z. (2021). Evaluating the association between extreme heat and mortality in urban Southwestern Ontario using different temperature data sources. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-11. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-87203-0
  • Radhakrishnan, D., Ouédraogo, A., Shariff, S. Z., McNally, J. D., Benchimol, E. I., & Clemens, K. K. (2020). The association between climate, geography and respiratory syncitial virus hospitalizations among children in Ontario, Canada: a population-based study. BMC infectious diseases, 20(1), 1-9. doi:10.1186/s12879-020-4882-6
  • Ouédraogo, A. M., Crighton, E. J., Sawada, M., To, T., Brand, K., & Lavigne, E. (2018). Exploration of the spatial patterns and determinants of asthma prevalence and health services use in Ontario using a Bayesian approach. PLoS One, 13(12), e0208205. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0208205 · View the full list here.

Presentations

  • Ouédraogo, A. M. (2024, February). Rates of out-of-home care among children in Canada: an analysis of national administrative child welfare data [Presentation]. Kids Count: 3rd National Child Welfare Data Exchange Meeting.
  • Ouédraogo, A. (2021, February 25). Impact of Ontario’s Harmonized Heat Warning and Information System on emergency department visits for heat-related illness in Ontario, Canada [Webinar]. Canadian Heat Health Community of Practice (HCoP) Webinar: Canadian Developments in Heat Health Science.
  • Ouédraogo, A. (2020, October). Heat warning information systems: do they protect the health of Canadians? – Methods [Webinar]. Western Ambient Temperature Health Research (WeATHeR).
  • Ouédraogo, A. (2017, September). New opportunities for weather and health research – ICES research [Presentation]. Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE).
  • Ouédraogo, A. (2016, November) Spatial analysis of asthma patterns [Presentation]. Research and Analysis rounds, ICES Western; (2016, December) ICES Western Scientific meetings, ICES Western.
  • Ouédraogo, A. (2016, April) An analysis of spatial patterns of asthma outcomes and health services use in Ontario [Presentation]. Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) conference; (2015, May) Population Health Student Conference, University of Ottawa, ON; (2014, November) Multidisciplinary Symposium in Geography, University of Ottawa, ON.
  • Ouédraogo, A. (2015, August). Graduate studies experience and thesis research methods [Lecture]. Research Methods class, University of Ottawa, ON