Nancy Bedingfield

McGill International TB Centre
Canada

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Nancy is post-doctoral TB research fellow with a strong interests in qualitative methods, patient education, health equity, and implementation science. Nancy completed her PhD from the Universtiy of Calgary in 2022 and has experience working as a TB nurse (15 years), a clinical trials project manager (7 years) and a knowledge translation project manager (1 year). Nancy is based in Canada and currently working under the supervision of Dr. Dick Menzies and Dr. Amrita Daftary. She is working on collaborative, international projects with the McGill International TB Research Centre, the Dahdaleh School of Global Health, the Tuberculosis Trials Consortium, and the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation. She initiated and is facilitating the SSHIFTB Social Science TB Journal Club.

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Equity Health care workers Mixed Methods Qualitative Methods
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Canada

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nancy.bedingfield@ucalgary.ca

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Focus groups were conducted to support the co-development of a person-centred stigma intervention with TB-affected community members and health workers in South Africa.

This month's article will be presented by Dr Alanna Bergman, a nurse practitioner and post-doctoral research fellow in the Office of Nursing Research, University of Virginia

South Africa SSHIFTB
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Dr. Nancy Bedingfield will discuss SSHIFTB contributors’ paper:  

Stillo J. Connecting the DOTS: Should we still be doing directly observed therapy? Human Organization. 2024.Jan 2; 83(1). 18 – 30; https://doi.org/10.1080/00187259.2023.2286173

There is also an optional companion commentary, Koch E & Versfeld A. Quiet complicity: Anthropologists and the medicalization of TB, Human Organization. 2014, 83(1), 3-6.

Abstract can be accessed here

Romania SSHIFTB
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Join us for our next Journal Club session happening on June 11 at 10am ET/ 4pm SAST/4pm CEST.

We will be discussing the following article below co-written by SSHIFTB founder Nora Engel:

James R, Theron G, Cobelens F, Engel N. Framing the detection of incipient tuberculosis infection: A qualitative study of political prioritisation. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 2022 Apr;27(4):445-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13734

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Join us for our next Journal Club session happening on Aug 13 at 10am ET/ 4pm SAST/4pm CEST.

We will be discussing the following article below co-written by SSHIFTB contributor Yuliya Chorna:

Chorna, Y., Lukash, IG., Kalancha, Y. et al. Perspectives on multisectoral accountability framework to end tuberculosis in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region: a mixed-methods study. BMC Glob. Public Health 3, 20 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s44263-025-00136-y

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Join us for our next Journal Club session happening on October 8 at 10am ET/ 4pm SAST/4pm CEST.
We will be discussing the following article below:
Roberti J, Carmiol-Rodríguez P, Chan-Liang E, Aguilar-Vidrio OA, Suyanto AA, Sprecher J, Rubinstein F, Iribarren S. Enhancing tuberculosis treatment support: A thematic analysis of interactive messages in a digital adherence technology trial to identify needs, challenges, and strategies for improvement. PLoS One. 2025 Jul 24;20(7):e0326492.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326492
 Email nancy.bedingfield@ucalgary.ca for more information
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Join us for our next Journal Club session happening on December 10 at 12pm ET/ 7pm SAST/6pm CEST.
We will be discussing the following article below:
Raad, R., Hoddinott, G., Gorsky, M., & Dixon, J. (2025). Ration or compassion? Stakeholder perspectives on the introduction of bedaquiline in South Africa. PLOS global public health, 5(7), e0004821. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004821
 Email nancy.bedingfield@ucalgary.ca for more information
South Africa SSHIFTB
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Join us for our next Journal Club session happening on February 11 at 12pm ET/ 7pm SAST/6pm CEST.
We will be discussing the following article below:
Law, S., Armstrong, G., Schwartzman, K., Campbell, J. R., Johnston, J., & Silva, D. S. (2025). Moral distress among health care workers and decision-makers undermines tuberculosis infection screening and treatment programs for migrants in Canada: a reflexive thematic analysis. BMC health services research, 26(1), 56. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-025-13822-2
 Email nancy.bedingfield@ucalgary.ca for more information
Canada SSHIFTB
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Join us for our next Journal Club session happening on June 10 at 12pm ET/ 6pm SAST/6pm CEST.

We will be discussing the following article below:

Kashnitsky D,  Vyatchina M, Ariabinska A, Basquin P,  Kasianczuk M, Kvinikadze G,  Landeau E, Rabinciuc V, Rivera K,  Shishniashvili I, Smirnova J,  Tiuniahina N &  Simmat-Durand L.  From barriers to solutions: a qualitative study of access to HIV and TB care for forced migrants from Ukraine. BMC Health Serv Res 26, 253 (2026). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-025-13946-5 

Email nancy.bedingfield@ucalgary.ca for more information

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