Full open-access links to many of our research publications are available below.
2023
Ijaz N, Carrie H 2023. “Governing therapeutic pluralism: An environmental scan of the statutory regulation and government reimbursement of traditional and complementary medicine practitioners in the United States.” PLOS Global Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001996
Ijaz N, Wieland LS, Gallego-Pérez DF 2023. “Correspondence on ‘The limits of shared decision making’ by Elwyn et al: We call for a more nuanced approach.” BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112343
McNair A*, Ijaz N 2023. “The old ways are the old ways: Chinese medicine care in Canadian Indigenous communities.” Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine. doi.org/10.1089/jicm.2022.0646
2022
Ijaz N, Welsh S, Boon H 2022. “Toward a ‘green allopathy’? Naturopathic paradigm and practice in Ontario, Canada.” Social Science and Medicine. doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115557
Ijaz N 2022. “The reluctant and the envious: Therapeutic subalternity and the practice of homeopathy in North America.” Social Science and Medicine. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.1153103.
Ijaz N, Welsh S, Boon H, Zhang Q 2022. “Safety, effectiveness and professional judgment: A survey of training-related perspectives among physiotherapists who practice acupuncture in Ontario, Canada.” Physiotherapy Canada. doi: 10.3138/ptc-2020-0116.
Ijaz N, Sergeant A 2022. “Beyond binaries: A three-sided pedagogical model for classroom debate. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. 33(2).
2021
Ijaz N, Welsh S, Boon H 2021. “A mixed-methods survey of physiotherapists who practice acupuncture and dry needling in Ontario, Canada: Practice characteristics, motivations, and professional outcomes.” BMC Complementary Medicine & Therapies 21:264. doi: 0.1186/s12906-021-03440
Ijaz N, Steinberg M, Flaherty T, Neubauer T, Thompson-Lastad, A 2021. “Beyond professional licensure: A statement of principle on culturally-responsive healthcare.” Global Advances in Health and Medicine. doi: 10.1177/21649561211043092
Ijaz N, Zhang Q, Brule D, Boon H, Welsh S. “A cross-sectional workforce survey of three traditional and complementary medicine professions in Ontario, Canada.” PLoSOne 16(5):e025f0233.
2020
Ijaz N, Boon H, and Welsh S. “A survey of acupuncture-providing registered massage therapists in Ontario, Canada: motivation, training and practice characteristics.” International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork 13(3): 18-29.
Ijaz, N. “Paradigm-specific risk conceptions, patient safety, and the regulation of traditional and complementary medicine practitioners: The case of homeopathy in Ontario, Canada.” Frontiers in Sociology 10.3389/fsoc.2019.00089.
Ijaz N, Mawson P. “Cultivating a Jewish eco-education framework: The Toronto Heschel School’s teaching and learning garden.” Canadian Jewish Studies 29(112-139).
2019
Ijaz N, Boon H. “Evaluating the international standards gap for the use of acupuncture needles by physiotherapists and chiropractors: A policy analysis.” PLoS One 14(2): e0226601.
Ijaz N. “Research-related attitudes among Chinese medicine students: A mixed-methods study.” Integrative Medicine Research 8(4):264-270.
Ijaz N, Rioux J, Elder C, Weeks J. “Whole systems research methods in health care: A scoping review.” Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 25:S21-S51.
Elder C, Ijaz N, Weeks J, Rioux J, Ritenbaugh C. “Convergent points for conventional medicine and whole systems research: A user’s guide.” Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 25:S12-S16.
2018
Ijaz N, Boon H. “Chinese medicine sans Chinese: The unequal impacts of Canada’s ‘multiculturalism within a bilingual framework’.” Law and Policy 10.1002/lapo.12112.
Ijaz N, Boon H. “Medical pluralism and the state: Regulatory language requirements for traditional acupuncturists in English-language diaspora jurisdictions“. Sage Open 8(2): 1-15.
Ijaz N, Boon H. “Statutory regulation of traditional medicine practitioners and practices: The need for distinct policy-making guidelines.” Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 10.1089/acm.2017.0346.
Ijaz N, Boon H. “Safety as ‘boundary object’: the case of acupuncture and Chinese medicine regulation in Ontario, Canada.” In Brosnan C, Danell J, Vuolanto P. Complementary Medicine: Cultural Practices, Social Transformations, and Global Change. Palgrave: London.
2017
Ijaz N. “How alternative? A postcolonial feminist analysis of two popular complementary and alternative medicine hot flash remedies.” In Torri C, Hornosty J. Complementary, Alternative & Traditional medicine: Prospects and Challenges for Women’s Reproductive Health. Canadian Scholars’ Press / Women’s Press: Toronto.
MacKeigan L, Ijaz N, Bojarski E, Dolovich L. “Implementation of a reimbursed medication review program in Ontario pharmacies: Corporate and pharmacy level strategies.” Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy 13(5):947-958.
2016
Ijaz N, Boon H, Muzzin L, Welsh S. “State risk discourse and the regulatory preservation of traditional medicine knowledge: The case of acupuncture in Ontario, Canada.” Social Science and Medicine 170(97-105).
2015
Ijaz N, Boon H, Welsh S, Meads A. “Supportive but ‘worried’: Perceptions of naturopaths, homeopaths and Chinese medicine practitioners through a regulatory transition in Ontario, Canada.” BMC Complementary & Alternative Medicine 15(312):1-13.
2014
Ijaz N. “Canada’s ‘other’ illegal white substance: Evidence, economics, and raw milk policy.” Health Law Review 22(1&2): 26-39