Alana Cattapan
Assistant Professor
Political Scienece
University of Saskatchewan
Canada
Biography
Previously a CIHR postdoctoral fellow at Novel Tech Ethics in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University, Alana Cattapan’s research examines stakeholder engagement in health policy making in Canada. More specifically, she takes a critical feminist approach to the study of public policy, looking at the processes by which women and other historically marginalized communities are left out of health policy making. She is also collaborating on research initiatives related to gender, law and public policy including projects on gender and public engagement in Canada, and feminist approaches to the digital humanities.
Research Interest
Stakeholder engagement in health policy making in Canada, Reproductive biotechnologies, Gender and public engagement in Canada, Medicalization and the social construction of health and illness, Science and innovation policy
Publications
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Cattapan A, DuPont Q. Moving Forward, Looking Back: Taking Canadian Feminist Histories Online. Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice. 2016 Oct 28;37(2 (2)):225-37.
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Cattapan A. Precarious labour: on egg donation as work. Studies in Political Economy. 2016 Sep 1;97(3):234-52.
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Cattapan A, Snow D. Everything and nothing: regulating embryo research in Canada. New Genetics and Society. 2017 Jan 2;36(1):43-65.
