Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Faculty Member

Cheryl Pritlove PhD

Research Interests

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  Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

• Patient and Community Engagement
• Gender and Health
• Person-centered Care
• Social and Structural Determinants of Health
• Social Inequity, Marginalized Populations, and Health Outcomes
• Intersectionality
• Feminist Political Economy
• Qualitative Research Methods and Art-based Approaches (photography and comics)
• Critical Ethnography

Current Research Projects

Gender in Focus: A Photo-elicitation Study of Gender, Self-management and Care with Emerging Adults with Type 1 Diabetes.  Role: Principal Investigator. Source: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Duration: 2021-2026

A Labyrinth of Inequity: A Feminist Political Economy Approach to the Gender Gap in Academic Medicine.  Role: Principal Investigator. Source: Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Duration: 2021-2024

Living with Parental Cancer: Exploring the Experiences of Children Through Co-constructed Comics.  Role: Principal Investigator. Source: Nanny Angel Network. Duration: 2021-2024

Exploring Experiences of Multiple Myeloma RevAid Participation among Females of Childbearing Potential: A Qualitative Quality of Life Study. Role: Principal Investigator. Source: Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS). Duration: 2021-2023

Representative Publications

1. Pritlove, C., Juando-Prats, C., Ala-leppilampi, K. & Parsons, J. (2019). The good, the bad, and the ugly of implicit bias. The Lancet, 393(10171), p. 502-504.

2. Pritlove, C. & Dias, L.V. (2022). “You really need a whole community”: a qualitative study of mothers’ need for and experiences with childcare support during cancer treatment and recovery. Supportive Care in Cancer. Https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-022-07399-3

3. Pritlove, C., Angus, J., Dale, C., Seto-Neilson., Kraimer, M. (2021). Binary blues: Exploring beyond dichotomized gender comparisons with a theory-driven approach. Qualitative Research. doi.org/10.1177/14687941211049323

4. Pritlove, C., Jassi, M., Burns, B., McCurdy. (2021). The work of managing multiple myeloma and its implications for treatment-related decision making: A qualitative study of patient and caregiver experiences. BMC Cancer, 21(793), 1-12

5. Lopez, C.J., Pritlove, C., Jones, JM., Alibhai, SMH., Sabiston, E…Santa-Mina, D. (2021). “This is my home-based exercise”: exploring environmental influences on home-based exercise participation in oncology. Supportive Care in Cancer, 29 (6), 3245-3255

6. Pritlove, C., Capone, G., Kita, H., Gladman, S., Maganti, M., Jones, J.M. (2020). Cooking for Vitality: Pilot Study of an Innovative Culinary Nutrition Intervention for Cancer-Related Fatigue in Cancer Survivors. Nutrients, 12(9): 2760.

7. Pritlove, C., Markowitz, B., Mukerji, G., Advani, A., Parsons, J. (2020). Experiences and perspectives of the parents of emerging adults living with type 1 diabetes. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care, 8(1), e001125.

8. Lopez, C., McGarragle, K., Pritlove, C., Jones, J.M., Alibhai, S.M.H., Lenton, E.,
Santa Mina, D. (2020). Variability and limitations in home-based exercise program
descriptions in oncology: A scoping review. Supportive Care in Cancer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-020-05453-6

9. Pritlove, C., Safai, P., Angus, J., Armstrong, P., Jones, J., Parsons, J. (2019). “It’s Hard Work”: A Feminist Political Economy Approach to Reconceptualizing “Work” in the Cancer Context. Qualitative Health Research, 29(5), p.758-773.

10. Angus, J.E., Dale, C.M., Seto Nielson, L., Kramer-Kile, M., Lapum, J., Pritlove, C.,
Abramson, B., Price, J., Marzolini, S., Oh, P. & Clark, A. (2018). Gender Matters in
Cardiac Rehabilitation and Diabetes: Using Bourdieu’s Concepts. Social Science and
Medicine, 200, 44-51.

11. Stergiou-Kita, M., Lafrance, M., Pritlove, C., Power, N. (2017). Examining Theoretical Approaches to Men and Masculinity in the Context of High-Risk Work: Applications, Understandings and Challenges. Safety Science, 96, 150-160.

12. Stergiou-Kita, M., Pritlove, C. & Kirsh, B. (2016). The “BIG C” – Stigma, Cancer and Workplace Discrimination. Journal of Cancer Survivorship: Research and Practice.
10(6), 1035-1050.

13. Dale, C.M., Angus, J.E., Seto Nielson, L., Kramer-Kile, M., Pritlove, C., Lapum, J., Price, J., Marzolini, S., Abramson, B., Oh, P., Clark, A. (2015). “I’m no Superman”: Understanding Diabetic Men, Masculinity, and Cardiac Rehabilitation. Qualitative Health Research, 25(12), 1648-1661.

For a full list publications, visit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Cheryl+Pritlove

News and Media

Interviewee. Podcast: Gender Equity in Medicine. Interviewer: Audrey Provenzano, RoS Review of Systems Podcast, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Available from: https://primarycare.hms.harvard.edu/multimedia/gender-equality-medicine

Interviewee. In Conversation with: Task Force puts equity, diversity and inclusion at the core of research. St. Michael’s Hospital Media Relations, Toronto, ON. Also featured in Hospital News. Available here: https://unityhealth.to/2022/07/equity-diversity-inclusion-in-research/      Or here: https://hospitalnews.com/task-force-puts-equity-diversity-and-inclusion-at-the-core-of-research/

News Article. Métraux E, Dugan S, Pritlove C (senior). (2020). From WWll to COVID-19, women have always led through crises; that could be good news for equity in a post-pandemic workforce. Healio Primary Care. Available at: https://www.healio.com/news/primary-care/20201014/from-wwll-to-covid19-women-have-always-led-through-crises

News story. Addressing implicit bias in medicine requires multilevel approach. Healio HemOncology today. Available at: https://www.healio.com/news/hematology-oncology/20201014/addressing-implicit-bias-in-medicine-requires-multilevel-approach