Richard is a French-Canadian from Ontario, Canada. He moved to Meanjin in 2019 to complete his PhD in Human Services at Griffith. Prior, Richard worked as a research professional for more than fifteen years planning, coordinating, and implementing health and health service research across a variety of spaces; from suicide and mental health care trajectories to pharmacy practice and vaccine hesitancy.
Richard’s PhD, "Practice at the research interface: Two-Eyed Seeing, community-engaged research practice, and non-Indigenous collaboration in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research" explored community-engaged research practice from a dialectical sociology perspective to identify the system- and community-level enablers/constraints to genuine research collaborations in community spaces.
Guided by his Aboriginal mentors, Richard engaged in Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) to explore how to do research differently, how to foster genuine collaborations with community, and most importantly, how to meaningfully support communities to self-determine their involvement in health research. Working alongside community these last few years has been completely transformative for Richard, as he learned to listen, and listened to learn. Richard is excited to continue his journey of learning with the team at Poche.
Researcher biography
Publications:
- Spinks J, Violette R, Boyle DI, Petrie D, Fanning L, Hall KK, Kelly F, Wheeler AJ, Ware RS, Byrnes J, Chen E, Donald A, Ellis N, DelDot M, Nissen, L. Activating pharmacists to reduce the frequency of medication related problems (ACTMed): a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial. MJA Medical Journal of Australia. 2023. 219:325-331. doi:10.5694/mja2.52073
- Timony PE, Waite N, Houle S, Violette R, Gauthier AP. The Pharmacist is in: the availability and distribution of French-speaking pharmacists in Ontario. Minorités linguistiques et société/Linguistic Minorities and Society. 2022. 18:175–196. doi:10.7202/1089184ar
- Violette R, Spinks J, Kelly F, Wheeler A. Role of Indigenous health workers in the delivery of comprehensive primary health care in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand: a scoping review protocol. JBI Evid Synth. 2021. 19(11):3174-3182. doi:10.11124/JBIES-20-00476
- Oh BY, Violette R, Grindrod KA, Waite NM, Houle SKD. Pharmacy students' perceived willingness and ability to negotiate for paid co-operative education positions. Explor Res Clin Soc Pharm. 2021. 2:100026. doi:10.1016/j.rcsop.2021.100026
- Fonseca J, Violette R, Houle SKD, Waite NM. Distributing publicly funded influenza vaccine-community pharmacies' perspectives on acquiring vaccines from Public Health and from private distributors in Ontario, Canada. Pharmacy. 2021. 9(2):94. doi:10.3390/pharmacy9020094
- Fonseca J, Violette R, Houle SKD, Dolovich L, McCarthy LM, Waite NM. Helping Unlock Better Care (HUB|C) using quality improvement science in community pharmacies - An implementation method. Res Social Adm Pharm. 2021. 17(3):572-577. doi:10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.05.006
- Pullagura GR, Violette R, Houle SKD, Waite NM. Exploring influenza vaccine hesitancy in community pharmacies: Knowledge, attitudes and practices of community pharmacists in Ontario, Canada. Can Pharm J (Ott). 2020. 153(6):361-370. doi:10.1177/1715163520960744
- Pullagura GR, Violette R, Houle SKD, Waite NM. Shades of gray in vaccination decisions - Understanding community pharmacists' perspectives of, and experiences with, influenza vaccine hesitancy in Ontario, Canada. Vaccine. 2020. 38(11):2551-2558. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.01.085
- Violette R, Pullagura GR. Vaccine hesitancy: Moving practice beyond binary vaccination outcomes in community pharmacy. Can Pharm J. 2019. 152(6):391-394. doi:10.1177/1715163519878745
- Violette R, Houle SKD, Nissen LM, Waite NM. The International Pharmacists-as-Immunizers Partnership (IPIP)-Advancing Research on Pharmacist-Administered Immunizations Worldwide. Pharmacy. 2019. 7(2):53. doi:10.3390/pharmacy7020053
- Pullagura GR, Waite NM, Houle SKD, Violette R, Wong WWL. Cost-utility analysis of offering a novel remunerated community pharmacist consultation service on influenza vaccination for seniors in Ontario, Canada. J Am Pharm Assoc. 2019. 59(4):489-497.e1. doi:10.1016/j.japh.2019.02.011
- Meyer SB, Violette R, Aggarwal R, Simeoni M, MacDougall H, Waite N. Vaccine hesitancy and Web 2.0: Exploring how attitudes and beliefs about influenza vaccination are exchanged in online threaded user comments. Vaccine. 2019. 37(13):1769-1774. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.02.028