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Devon Greyson
MLIS, PhD

Investigator, BC Children's Hospital

Dr. Devon Greyson’s research focuses on public health communication and the use of information by publics, clinicians, and health systems. Devon has a special interest in perinatal and pediatric health decision-making and experiences. Current work focuses on vaccine decision-making, use of cannabis during pregnancy and lactation, and mitigating the impacts of medical disinformation. Dr. Greyson is a qualitative and mixed methodologist with an interdisciplinary background that spans gender studies, information science, and public health.

Academic Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor, Division of Health in Populations, School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
  • Research Theme: Healthy Starts
  • Research Group(s): Implementing Knowledge for Equity and System Change; Pathways to Healthy Birth; Vaccines, Infections, and Host Defenses

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SPPH 137, 2600 East Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z3

devon.greyson@ubc.ca

School of Population and Public Health
Grants

2022-2024 Canadian Institutes of Health Research Operating Grant: "Addressing the Wider impacts of COVID-19: How do perceptions of Covid-19 risk influence health decisions in pregnancy? A mixed-methods study" (Co-PI)

2022-2023 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Engage Grant: "Balancing intellectual freedom and medical disinformation in Canadian libraries" (PI)

2021-2022 British Columbia Immunization Committee: "COVID-19 under-vaccination among youth 20-29 years old in Island Health region" (Co-I)

2020-2021 University of Massachusetts College of Social and Behavioral Sciences: "Cannabis use decisions in pregnancy and lactation: Pilot project" (PI)

Honours & Awards

Family Research Scholar, Center for Research on Families, University of Massachusetts (2019-2020)

Ilona Kickbusch Award for Best Article by an Early Career Researcher (2019)

James M. Cretsos Leadership Award: Association for Information Science & Technology (2018)

Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Trainee Award (2015-2018)

Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award: Association for Library and Information Science Education (2017)

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