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Tori Ford
MPhil (Dist), BA (Hons)
NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral research fellow for the EVOLUTION trial
- Skoll Centre Early Career Research Fellow
Doctoral project
Tori is a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow under the supervision of Professor Sue Ziebland, Dr. Abigail McNiven, Dr. Sarah Tonkin-Crine, and Professor Gail Hayward. Her doctoral project is entitled: (Mis)Managing Microbiomes: Experiences and Challenges with Recurrent Vulvovaginal Thrush in Primary Care.
Biography
Tori's research focuses on patient experiences and advancing gender health equity.
She holds an MPhil in Health, Medicine, and Society from the University of Cambridge and a BA in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies from McGill University. She is the recipient of the McGill Scarlet Key Award and the University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Social Impact Award for her feminist health research.
Tori has been named a Top 25 Women of Influence and her work advancing gender health equity has been recognised by the Rising Star Champion Award and the University of Oxford Paving the Way Award. Her words have also been featured in Hunger Magazine, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan.
Tori is also the founder of Medical Herstory, an international award-winning not-for-profit on a mission to eliminate sexism, shame, and stigma from health experiences.
Websites
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https://medicalherstory.com/press
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Recent publications
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Adequacy of clinical guideline recommendations for patients with low-risk cancer managed with monitoring: systematic review
Journal article
Collins KK. et al, (2024), Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 169
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#TreatmentResistantDepression: A qualitative content analysis of Tweets about difficult-to-treat depression
Journal article
Talbot A. et al, (2023), Health Expectations, 26, 1986 - 1996
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Work Hard, Party Hard: Harm Reduction in a Postsecondary Setting
Journal article
Ford V. et al, (2021), Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 51, 1 - 14