Sandy Rao, PhD, RP, RSW, MSW,

Sandy Rao, PhD, RP, RSW, MSW, has been a member of Linktree for 2 months and joined in April 2026. The social media accounts linked to from Sandy Rao, PhD, RP, RSW, MSW, are: • YouTube • LinkedIn • Email • Website Besides social media accounts, drsandyrao has populated their site with: • Adipocyte Hypertrophy, Fatty Liver and Metabolic Risk Factors in South Asians: The Molecular Study of Health and Risk in Ethnic Groups (mol-SHARE) | PLOS One • The relationship between functional impairment, perceptions of self, and determinants of health in young adults' ability to assess and access mental health services: Oral Presentation C6.4 | The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada • Patients Voices Are Important In Medical Compassion Education • Exploring Foodways as Embodied Knowledge and Multisensory Storytelling: A First Generation Canadian Making an Andhra Pradesh Thali | Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry • Black Lives, Blue Shirts and ‘Colourblindness’: Application of Critical Race Theory in Police Response Models for Persons with Mental Illness | Community Mental Health Journal | Springer Nature Link • Missing Persons Alert: Finding the Lost Person in Patient-Oriented Research. • Hospital Admissions for Personality Disorders Increased During the COVID-19 Pandemic. • “Understanding the journey from A to Z”: Centering peer support perspectives to unveil the mechanisms and power of peer support. • Associations between negative COVID-19 experiences and symptoms of anxiety and depression: a study based on a representative Canadian national sample, HPCDP: Vol 44(2), February 2024 - Canada.ca • Food Insecurity is Associated with Poor Mental Health in Canadian Children and Adolescents. • The Access Paradox: Unmet healthcare needs among young adults in Alberta - an exploratory study of the systemic ironies in healthcare accessibility. • HEARTS Study Protocol: Helping Enable Access and Remove Barriers To Support for Young Adults with Mental Health-Related Disabilities • Neighborhood material versus social deprivation in Canada: different patterns of associations with child and adolescent mental health problems | Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Springer Nature Link • Primus Inter PARES: First among equals—practical strategies for young adult PAtient RESearch partners (PARES) by young adult PARES | Research Involvement and Engagement | Springer Nature Link • The measure of meaning: redefining success in patient-oriented research | Mental Health and Social Inclusion | Emerald Publishing • Resuscitating Equality: Bringing the Heartbeat Back to Healthcare | Advances in Social Work • From ‘publish or perish’ to ‘publish with purpose’: perspectives from young adults with lived and living experience on transforming academic publishing in patient-oriented research | Research Involvement and Engagement | Springer Nature Link • Giving, Receiving, Reciprocating: The Reimagining of Ethics in Participatory Health Research: Ethics and Social Welfare: Vol 19 , No 4 - Get Access • Navigating the “Crossroads”: Critical Realism as the Third Path in Critical Social Work Research. • Mental health-related disabilities, healthcare utilization, and access in young adults with anxiety and depression: a scoping review protocol: Social Work in Mental Health: Vol 24 , No 2 - Get Access • By Young Adults, for Young Adults: A Participatory Approach to Co-Designing Social Media Strategies for Knowledge Mobilization and Engagement | Published in Journal of Participatory Research Methods • From Power Over to Power With: The PARTNER Tool for Transformation in Participatory Health Research • The MAPS LAB | Sandy Rao • Collaboratory | Sandy Rao • Mental Health-Related Disabilities, Healthcare Utilization, and Access in Young Adults with Anxiety and Depression: A Scoping Review - Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research • Becoming Invisible: How Mental Health Systems Erode Selfhood in Young Adults with Mental Health-Related Disabilities • Tipping the balance: introducing the see-saw model of young adults unmet healthcare needs through a critical realist and patient-oriented approach • The HEARTS Study | Sandy Rao • Redesigning mental health research systems from within: the role of peer-led co-production