Research Repository

Koenig, B., Murphy, A., McDermid, J., Johnston, S., Knight, R., Gilbert, M., Shannon, K., & Krüsi, A. (2023). Intersecting structural barriers to reporting violence among men and non-binary sex workers under end-demand criminalization in Canada. SSM. Qualitative Research in Health, 4, 100311–. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100311

McBride B, Shannon K, Pearson J, Braschel M, Krüsi A, McDermid J, Goldenberg SM. Association between interrupted access to sex work community services during the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in sex workers’ occupational conditions: findings from a community-based cohort study in Vancouver, Canada. BMJ Open. 2023 Jan 5;13(1):e065956. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065956.

Goldenberg, S. M., Buglioni, N., Krüsi, A., Frost, E., Moreheart, S., Braschel, M., & Shannon, K. (2023). Housing Instability and Evictions Linked to Elevated Intimate Partner and Workplace Violence Among Women Sex Workers in Vancouver, Canada: Findings of a Prospective, Community-Based Cohort, 2010-2019. American Journal of Public Health, 113(4), 442–452. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307207revalence and structural correlates of HIV and STI testing among a community-based cohort of women sex workers in Vancouver Canada.

Goldenberg, S. M., Pearson, J., Moreheart, S., Nazaroff, H., Krüsi, A., Braschel, M., Bingham, B., & Shannon, K. (2023). Prevalence and structural correlates of HIV and STI testing among a community-based cohort of women sex workers in Vancouver Canada. PloS One, 18(3), e0283729–e0283729. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283729

Pearson, J., Machat, S., McDermid, J., Goldenberg, S. M., & Krüsi, A. (2023). An Evaluation of Indoor Sex Workers’ Sexual Health Access in Metro Vancouver: Applying an Occupational Health & Safety Lens in the Context of Criminalization. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20031857

Koenig, B., Murphy, A., Johnston, S., Pearson, J., Knight, R., Gilbert, M., Shannon, K., & Krüsi, A. (2022). Digital Exclusion and the Structural Barriers to Safety Strategies among Men and Non-Binary Sex Workers Who Solicit Clients Online. Social Sciences, 11(7), Article 7.

McDermid, J., Murphy, A., McBride, B., Wu, S., Goldenberg, S. M., Shannon, K., & Krüsi, A. (2022). How client criminalisation under end-demand sex work laws shapes the occupational health and safety of sex workers in Metro Vancouver, Canada: A qualitative study. BMJ Open, 12(11), e061729. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061729

Goldenberg, S. M., Perry, C., Watt, S., Bingham, B., Braschel, M., & Shannon, K. (2022). Violence, policing, and systemic racism as structural barriers to substance use treatment amongst women sex workers who use drugs: Findings of a community-based cohort in Vancouver, Canada (2010–2019). Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 237, 109506.

Machat, S., Lyons, T., Braschel, M., Shannon, K., & Goldenberg, S. (2022). Internet solicitation linked to enhanced occupational health and safety outcomes among sex workers in Metro Vancouver, Canada 2010-2019. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, oemed-2021-107429. https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2021-107429

McBride, B., Goldenberg, S. M., Murphy, A., Wu, S., Mo, M., Shannon, K., & Krusi, A. (2022). Protection or police harassment? Impacts of punitive policing, discrimination, and racial profiling under end-demand laws among im/migrant sex workers in Metro Vancouver. SSM. Qualitative Research in Health, 2, 100048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100048

McBride, B., Shannon, K., Pearson, J., Krüsi, A., Braschel, M., & Goldenberg, S. M. (2022). Seeing pre-screened, regular clients associated with lower odds of workplace sexual violence and condom refusal amidst sex work criminalization: Findings of a community-based cohort of sex workers in Metro Vancouver, Canada (2010-2019). BMC Public Health, 22(1), 519. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12903-9

Pearson, J., Shannon, K., Krüsi, A., Braschel, M., McDermid, J., Bingham, B., & Goldenberg, S. M. (2022). Barriers to Governmental Income Supports for Sex Workers during COVID-19: Results of a Community-Based Cohort in Metro Vancouver. Social Sciences, 11(9), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11090383

Pearson, J., Shannon, K., McBride, B., Krüsi, A., Machat, S., Braschel, M., & Goldenberg, S. (2022). Sex work community participation in criminalized environments: A community-based cohort study of occupational health impacts in Vancouver, Canada: 2010–2019. International Journal for Equity in Health, 21(1), 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01621-8

Crago, A.-L., Bruckert, C., Braschel, M., & Shannon, K. (2021). Sex Workers’ Access to Police Assistance in Safety Emergencies and Means of Escape from Situations of Violence and Confinement under an “End Demand” Criminalization Model: A Five City Study in Canada. Social Sciences, 10(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10010013

McBride, B., Shannon, K., Braschel, M., Mo, M., & Goldenberg, S. M. (2021). Lack of full citizenship rights linked to heightened client condom refusal among im/migrant sex workers in Metro Vancouver (2010–2018). Global Public Health, 16(5), 664–678.

McBride B, Shannon K, Murphy A, Wu S, Erickson M, Goldenberg SM, Krüsi A. Harms of third party criminalisation under end-demand legislation: undermining sex workers' safety and rights. Cult Health Sex. 2021 Sep;23(9):1165-1181. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2020.1767305. Epub 2020 Aug 3. PMID: 32744171; PMCID: PMC7855821.

Argento, E., Goldenberg, S., Braschel, M., Machat, S., Strathdee, S. A., & Shannon, K. (2020). The impact of end-demand legislation on sex workers’ access to health and sex worker-led services: A community-based prospective cohort study in Canada. PloS One, 15(4), e0225783.

Goldenberg, S. M. (2020). Addressing Violence and Overdose Among Women Who Use Drugs—Need for Structural Interventions. JAMA Network Open, 3(10), e2021066. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.21066

Goldenberg, S. M., Amram, O., Braschel, M., Moreheart, S., & Shannon, K. (2020). Urban gentrification and declining access to HIV/STI, sexual health, and outreach services amongst women sex workers between 2010–2014: Results of a community-based longitudinal cohort. Health & Place, 62, 102288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102288

Goldenberg, S., Watt, S., Braschel, M., Hayashi, K., Moreheart, S., & Shannon, K. (2020). Police-related barriers to harm reduction linked to non-fatal overdose amongst sex workers who use drugs: Results of a community-based cohort in Metro Vancouver, Canada. The International Journal on Drug Policy, 76, 102618. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.102618

McBride, B., Shannon, K., Bingham, B., Braschel, M., Strathdee, S., & Goldenberg, S. M. (2020). Underreporting of Violence to Police among Women Sex Workers in Canada. Health and Human Rights, 22(2), 257–270.

Machat, S., Shannon, K., Braschel, M., Moreheart, S., & Goldenberg, S. M. (2019). Sex workers’ experiences and occupational conditions post-implementation of end-demand criminalization in Metro Vancouver, Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health = Revue Canadienne De Sante Publique, 110(5), 575–583. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-019-00226-z

McBride, B., Goldenberg, S. M., Murphy, A., Wu, S., Braschel, M., Krüsi, A., & Shannon, K. (2019). Third Parties (Venue Owners, Managers, Security, etc.) and Access to Occupational Health and Safety Among Sex Workers in a Canadian Setting: 2010-2016. American Journal of Public Health, 109(5), 792–798. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.304994

McBride, B., Shannon, K., Duff, P., Mo, M., Braschel, M., & Goldenberg, S. M. (2019). Harms of workplace inspections for im/migrant sex workers in in-call establishments: Enhanced barriers to health access in a Canadian setting. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 21(6), 1290–1299. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-019-00859-9

Sou, J., Shannon, K., Shoveller, J., Duff, P., Braschel, M., Dobrer, S., & Goldenberg, S. M. (2019). Impacts of im/migration experience on work stress among sex workers in Vancouver, Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health = Revue Canadienne De Sante Publique, 110(3), 344–353. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-018-0161-3

Argento, E., Taylor, M., Jollimore, J., Taylor, C., Jennex, J., Krusi, A., & Shannon, K. (2018). The Loss of Boystown and Transition to Online Sex Work: Strategies and Barriers to Increase Safety Among Men Sex Workers and Clients of Men. American Journal of Men’s Health, 12(6), 1994–2005. https://doi.org/10.1177/1557988316655785

Duff, P., Sou, J., Chapman, J., Dobrer, S., Braschel, M., Goldenberg, S., & Shannon, K. (2017). Poor working conditions and work stress among Canadian sex workers. Occupational Medicine (Oxford, England), 67(7), 515–521. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqx092

Goldenberg, S. M., Krüsi, A., Zhang, E., Chettiar, J., & Shannon, K. (2017). Structural Determinants of Health among Im/Migrants in the Indoor Sex Industry: Experiences of Workers and Managers/Owners in Metropolitan Vancouver. PLOS ONE, 12(1), e0170642. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170642

Lyons, T., Krüsi, A., Pierre, L., Kerr, T., Small, W., & Shannon, K. (2017). Negotiating Violence in the Context of Transphobia and Criminalization: The Experiences of Trans Sex Workers in Vancouver, Canada. Qualitative Health Research, 27(2), 182–190.

Lyons, T., Krüsi, A., Pierre, L., Small, W., & Shannon, K. (2017). The impact of construction and gentrification on an outdoor trans sex work environment: Violence, displacement and policing. Sexualities, 20(8), 881–903. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460716676990

Sou, J., Goldenberg, S. M., Duff, P., Nguyen, P., Shoveller, J., & Shannon, K. (2017). Recent im/migration to Canada linked to unmet health needs among sex workers in Vancouver, Canada: Findings of a longitudinal study. Health Care for Women International, 38(5), 492–506. https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2017.1296842

Krüsi, A., Kerr, T., Taylor, C., Rhodes, T., & Shannon, K. (2016). “They won’t change it back in their heads that we’re trash”: The intersection of sex work-related stigma and evolving policing strategies. Sociology of Health & Illness, 38(7), 1137–1150. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12436