Dr. McQuoid is an Assistant Professor in the TSET Health Promotion Research Center and the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. She is a health geographer who employs qualitative and mixed research methods to explore the interplay of people, their everyday environments, and behaviors related to health and wellbeing. Her projects have integrated ecological momentary assessment with qualitative mapping interviews to examine the everyday patterns, contexts, roles, and meanings of tobacco use and other substance use within various communities. Dr. McQuoid has been awarded funding for her work from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, and the California Tobacco Related Disease Research Program.
Dr. McQuoid is a founding director of the OUHSC Qualitative Methods Community of Practice. For more information and requests to join the list serv visit https://qmcop.ouhsc.edu/ or email contact-qmcop@ouhsc.edu
Academic Section(s):
OUFMC Research Division
Education:
2016 – 2020: Postdoctoral Fellow, Tobacco Research, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco
2012 – 2016: Doctor of Philosophy, Geography, University of New South Wales, Australia
2008 – 2010: Master of Science, Human Geography and Planning, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
2000 – 2004: Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology & Sociology, Mills College, USA
Clinical/Research Interests:
- Health behaviors
- Service access
- Community engagement
- Qualitative & geographic mixed methods
- Substance use
- Chronic illness
- mHealth
Funding:
Current Funding
01/01/2025 - 12/08/2028
Principal Investigator
American Cancer Society - Cancer Health Research Center Research Scholar Grant (CHERC-24-1160021-01-CHERC)
"Empowering smoking cessation for people with high levels of stress and low social support in Oklahoma and the ACS South Region."
Direct Costs: $1,080,000
12/01/2024 - 11/30/2027
Principal Investigator; Co-PI Arturo Durazo
National Institute on Drug Abuse (1R34DA060534-01A1)
"Developing an empowerment theory-based smoking cessation intervention for people with high levels of social stress."
Direct Costs: $450,000
Select Publications:
Warner EA, Azizoddin D, Frank-Pearce S, Ford L, Bradley D, Cohn A, Businelle M, Spicer P, Appleseth H, McQuoid J. "It frees your body from that pain thought”: A mixed methods exploration of patterns, contexts, and experiences of cannabis use for pain in rural communities. Journal of Pain, 2024; 25(11), 104636. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2024.104636
McQuoid J, Regan T, Devkota J, Cheney MK, Kumar V, Oehlers J, Lopez-Paguyo K, Nguyen N, Meacham MC, Ling PM, Thrul J. Situations and roles of cannabis versus cigarette use: Integrating ecological momentary assessment with qualitative mapping interviews. Journal of Health & Place, 2024; 89(14). DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103314
McQuoid J, Lowery B, Wright LS, Cohn A. Outdoor medical cannabis advertising in Oklahoma: Examining regulatory compliance and social meanings in billboard content. Substance Use and Misuse, 2023; 58(11), 1425-1437. DOI: 10.1080/10826084.2023.2223299
McQuoid J, Kean H, Ling P. Purposeful play: Exploring a bar-based anti-tobacco intervention for young adults. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 2022; 29(5). DOI:10.1080/09687637.2021.1932753
McQuoid J, Thrul J, Lopez-Paguyo K, Ling PM. Exploring multiple drug use by integrating mobile health and qualitative mapping methods - An individual case study. International Journal of Drug Policy, 2021; 97, 103325. PMID: 34175527. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103325
McQuoid J, Keamy-Minor E, Ling PM. A practice theory approach to understanding poly-tobacco use. Critical Public Health, 2018; 30(2), 204-219. PMID: 32982073. DOI:10.1080/09581596.2018.1541226.
McQuoid J, Thrul J. A geographically explicit ecological momentary assessment (GEMA) mixed method for understanding substance use. Social Science & Medicine, 2018; 202, 89-98. PMID: 29518701. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.02.014
McQuoid J. Contextualising renal patient routines: Everyday space-time contexts, health service access, and wellbeing. Social Science & Medicine, 2017; 183, 142-150. PMID: 28482275. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.04.043
McQuoid J. Finding joy in poor health: The leisure-scapes of chronic illness. Social Science & Medicine, 2017; 183, 88-96. PMID: 28475903. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.04.044
McQuoid J. Integrating paid work and chronic illness in daily life: A space-time approach to understand the challenges. Health & Place, 2015; 34: 83-91. PMID: 25968586. DOI:10.1016/j.healthplace2015.04.001
McQuoid J. Bringing emotions to time geography: The case of mobilities of poverty. Journal of Transport Geography, 2012; 23(July), 26-34. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2012.03.019
Book Chapters
McQuoid J. (2023). Engaging with Drug, Set and Setting to Understand Nicotine Use Practices. Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication (1st ed., pp. 261-271). New York: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429058141