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Claire Benny, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Public Health
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Contact

Assistant Professor, School of Public Health
Email
cbenny@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-0454
Address
4-293 Edmonton Clinic Health Academy
11405 87 Ave NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 1C9

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

injury research social determinants of health causal inference epidemiology

Research

My research program aims to better understand how social determinants of health and social inequities shape injury risk, severity, and quality of life post-injury. This work involves using complex epidemiological methods to inform injury prevention and risk reduction efforts. Contact from community organizations/members is encouraged to inform research priorities.

Teaching

TBA

Announcements

Accepting inquiries from MSc students (primarily in Epidemiology). To inquire about available positions, please send an e-mail detailing your experience and research interests along with your most up-to-date CV.

Featured Publications

Socio‐economic inequities in emergency department visits for wholly alcohol‐attributable acute and chronic harms in Canada, 2003–2017

Claire Benny, Erin Hobin, Alessandra T. Andreacchi, Naomi Schwartz, Brendan T. Smith

Drug and Alcohol Review. 2024 May; 10.1111/dar.13821

Income inequality and ‘hospitalisations of despair’ in Canada: a study on longitudinal, population-based data

Claire Benny, Arjumand Siddiqi, Roman Pabayo

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2024 January; 10.1136/jech-2023-220900

Investigating the association between income inequality in youth and deaths of despair in Canada: a population-based cohort study from 2006 to 2019

Claire Benny, Brendan T Smith, Elaine Hyshka, Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan, Paul J Veugelers, Roman Pabayo

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2023 January; 10.1136/jech-2022-219630

Unconditional cash transfers for reducing poverty and vulnerabilities: effect on use of health services and health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2022 March; 10.1002/14651858.cd011135.pub3

Income inequality and depression among Canadian secondary students: Are psychosocial well-being and social cohesion mediating factors?

Claire Benny, Karen A. Patte, Paul Veugelers, Scott T. Leatherdale, Roman Pabayo

SSM - Population Health. 2022 March; 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100994

Who consumes most of the cannabis in Canada? Profiles of cannabis consumption by quantity

Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2019 December; 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.107587

Assessing the impacts of minimum legal drinking age laws on police-reported violent victimization in Canada from 2009 to 2013

Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2019 April; 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.12.025

Investigating the relation between cannabis use and non-traffic injuries, 2001-2013

University of British Columbia. 2019 January; 10.14288/1.0387336

The Impact of Drinking Age Laws on Perpetration of Sexual Assault Crimes in Canada, 2009–2013

Journal of Adolescent Health. 2017 July; 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.03.005

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Research Students

Currently accepting undergraduate students for research project supervision.

Undergraduate students interested in research related to social inequities in injury prevention may send an e-mail detailing any relevant experience, their research interests, and an up-to-date CV.