Darryn DiFrancesco

Gender and Women's Studies | Health and Well-being | Rural Health Services | Indigenous Peoples | Indigenous Health | Health Sciences | Northern Issues | Climate Change | Mental Health | Anthropology | Environment | Community | Education | Pedagogy | Culture | Health | Arts-Based Research, Climate Change, Clinician Experiences, Community-Based Research, Environment, Family, Femininity, Feminism, Gender, Masculinity, Maternal Health, Media, Mental Health, Mothering, Qualitative Research, Rural and Remote Healthcare Workforce, Social Media, Women's Health.

I am a medical sociologist with an interdisciplinary background. I completed a BA in Communication from Simon Fraser University, an MA in International Development and Globalization from the University of Ottawa, and a PhD in Sociology through the University of British Columbia and University of Ottawa. My MA research examined community-driven economic development in a Northern BC Indigenous community, while my PhD research was a digital ethnography exploring the experiences of mothers using Facebook for information about health and parenting. Following my graduate studies, I worked as Qualitative Research Lead at the University of Calgary's Health Technology Assessment Unit in the O'Brien Institute for Public Health, where I studied clinician experiences and perspectives relating to health technologies/interventions as well as preferences around payment models among rural and remote physicians.