The BRIC NS Student Seminar Series is an opportunity for students across Nova Scotia to share their completed or in-progress research.
Presentation Title: “Health Outcomes and Healthcare Access Experiences of Incarcerated and Recently Released Women in Rural Areas: A scoping review.”
Presenter: Clare Heggie, MA, PhD Candidate
Clare Heggie is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of New Brunswick, supervised by Dr. Martha Paynter. Her research is focused on the health impacts of incarceration and criminalization on women and gender diverse people, and she has been involved in a number of projects examining the experience of accessing reproductive healthcare in prisons. She is a recipient of a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship from SSHRC.
Date and time: October 16, 2025, 12-1pm, AST, via Zoom
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BRIC NS Student Seminar Series – September 2024
Date et heure : 25 septembre 2024 à 11 h 00
Description : Dr. Rebecca Correia will be presenting « Family Physicians with a Geriatric Focus: Describing their Medical Practice Patterns and Impacts »Rebecca recently completed her PhD and began a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dalhousie University in the Department of Family Medicine. She is a health services researcher with interests in primary care, aging, health human resources, and medical education. She trained at McMaster University (PhD, Health Research Methodology, 2024) and the University of Waterloo (BSc, Honours Health Studies, 2019). Her dissertation included a modified Delphi study and two population-based observational studies to investigate the impacts of added competency training and focused medical practice among family physicians on caring for older adults. During her postdoc, Rebecca will lead mixed-methods, multi-provincial studies to understand the impacts of population aging on primary care needs and capacity.
