Priscilla Medeiros

Priscilla Medeiros holds a PhD in Anthropology from McMaster University and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Women’s College Hospital in Ontario. She has led community-engaged research and the implementation of research findings into practice for over 10 years. Priscilla joined the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children in April 2022 as the Knowledge Mobilization and Community Engagement Specialist, where she develops tools and training programs for researchers on best practices in community engagement with a focus on its principles and ethical dimensions. Her work emphasizes fostering meaningful partnerships between researchers and communities to enhance health care outcomes and ensure that research is relevant and beneficial to those it impacts.

Research

Priscilla Medeiros's previous work prior to joining the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children centered on advancing women’s health and health equity through community-engaged research. During her graduate studies, she focused on women’s health and HIV in the Maritime provinces and Ontario, contributing to the co-design and launch of a women-centred HIV care model and Project ECHO program that tailored HIV care to the unique needs of women.

More recently, she has collaborated with 10 First Nation communities in Southern Ontario to co-develop knowledge translation products that shared the findings of a larger project on prenatal opioid exposure. This work was guided by community priorities, emphasizing culturally relevant approaches to knowledge sharing.

Education and experience

• 2022-Present: Knowledge Mobilization and Community Engagement Specialist, Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
• 2019-2022: Postdoctoral Fellow, Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s
  College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
• 2012-2019: Doctor of Philosophy, Anthropology, McMaster University, Toronto, ON, Canada
• 2010-2012: Master of Arts, Anthropology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada

1. Medeiros, P., Shetty, J., Lamaj, L., Cunningham, J., Wanigaratne, S., Guttmann, A. & Cohen, E. Reported Community Engagement in Health Equity Research Published in High-Impact Journals: A Scoping Review. (2024). BMJ Open, Aug 12;14(8):e084952. Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39134436/
2. Koebel, J., Kazemi, K., Kennedy, V., Medeiros, P., Bertozzi, B., Underhill, A., Bevan, L., Tharao, W., Logie, C.H., Pick, N., King, E., Kestler. M., Yudin, M., Rana, J., Carvalhal, A., Webster, K., Lee, M., Islam, S., Nicholson, V., Ndung’u, M., Marasimhanm, M., Gagnier, B., Habanyama, M., de Pokomandy, A., Kaida, A., & Loutfy, M. on behalf of the CHIWOS Research Team. (2024). Dissemination of the Women-Centred HIV Care Model: A Multimodal Process and Evaluation. Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, 23, 23259582231226036. Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38389331/
3. Medeiros, P., Yu, A., Kazemi, M., Koebel, J., Nicholson, V., Frank, P., Persad, Y., O’Brien, N., Bertozzi, B., Smith, S., Ndung’u, M., Fraleigh, A., Gagnier, B., Cardinal, C., Webster, K., Sanchez, M., Lee, M., Lacombe-Duncan, A., Logie, C.H., Gormley, R., de Pokomandy, A., Kaida, A., & Loutfy, M. on behalf of the CHIWOS Research Team. (2024). Experiences and Resultant Care Gaps Among Women with HIV in Canada: Concept Mapping the Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS) Findings. BMJ Open, Apr 3;14(4):e078833. Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38569698/