Dr Margaret Cargo

• Practical Program Evaluation
• Aboriginal Health
• Health Promotion

Australia Health Promotion Association

Australasia Evaluation Society

Prevention Science

American Evaluation Association

PhD. Health Care & Epidemiology (University of British Columbia, Canada)

M.Sc. Health Behaviour (University of Waterloo, Canada)

B.Sc. (Hons) Health Behaviour (University of Waterloo, Canada)

• Evaluating school and community-based obesity prevention interventions
• Accounting for theory, context and implementation in systematic reviews of primary prevention interventions
• Assessing participatory partnerships and "best processes" in the evaluation of community health interventions
• Evaluating social and emotional well-being interventions for Aboriginal populations

Cargo M, Delormier T, Lévesque L, Horn-Miller K, McComber A, Macaulay AC. (in press) Can the democratic ideal of participatory research be achieved? An inside look at an academic-indigenous community partnership. Health Education Research.

Cargo M, Mercer S. (2008) The value and challenges of participatory research in public health: Strengthening its practice. Annual Review of Public Health.

Cargo M, Nedecheva T, Nguyen N, de la Durantaye M. (2007). The promise of autonomy-supportive contexts to promote youth participatory competence. Journal of Youth Development 2; Article 0701PA001

Cargo M, Petersen L, Levesque L, Macaulay A. (2007) Physical activity and perceived wholistic health in Indigenous youth. Pimitziwin, 5, 87-109.

Cargo M, Salsberg J, Delormier T, Desrosiers S, Macaulay AC. (2006) Understanding the social context of school health promotion program implementation. Health Education, 106 (2), 85-97.

Whitley R, Prince M, Cargo M. (2005) Thinking inside the bubble: evidence for a new contextual unit in urban mental health. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59: 893-897.

Paradis G, Lévesque L, Macaulay AC, Cargo M, McComber AM, Kirby R, Receveur O, Kishchuk N, Potvin L. (2005) Impact of a diabetes prevention intervention on body size, physical activity and diet among Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) children aged 6 to 11 years: Eight-year results from the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project. Pediatrics, 115, 333-39.

Bisset S, Cargo M, Delormier T, Macaulay A, Potvin L. (2004) Legitimizing diabetes as a community health issue: A case analysis of an Aboriginal community in Canada. Health Promotion International; 19, 317-26

Lévesque L, Cargo M, Salsberg J. (2004) Development of the Physical Activity Interactive Recall (PAIR) for Aboriginal children. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity; 1 (article 8); 11 pages (available online at www.ijbnpa.org)

Daniel M, Cargo M, Lifshay J, Green LW. (2004). Cigarette smoking, mental health and social support in Native Canadians. Canadian Journal of Public Health; 95 (1): 45-49.

Cargo M, Grams GD, Ottoson J, Ward P, Green LW. (2003). Youth empowerment as fostering positive youth development and citizenship. American Journal of Health Behavior. 27: S66-79.

Cargo M, Levesque L, Macaulay AC, Desrosiers S, McComber A, Delormier T, Potvin L. (2003). Community governance of the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project, Kahnawake Territory, Mohawk Nation, Canada. Health Promotion International. 18(3): 177-87.

Kirmayer L, Simpson C, Cargo M.(2003) Healing traditions: Culture, community and mental health promotion with Canadian Aboriginal Peoples. Australasian Psychiatry, 11: S15-23.

Potvin L, Cargo M, McComber AC, Delormier T, Macaulay AC. (2003). Implementing participatory intervention and research in communities: Lessons from the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project. Social Science and Medicine. 56 (6), 1295-1305.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Health, Social Sciences

• Childhood obesity prevention interventions