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. 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. Her current research program focuses on understanding and addressing tobacco and other substance use disparities among priority communities, including sexual and/or gender minoritized individuals living in high stigma environments and people living in rural areas.
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
Dr. McQuoid is also a founding director of RainbOK: An LGBTQ2S+ Research Network for Oklahoma. For more information please email Dr. McQuoid.
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 Equity Research Center Research Scholar Grant (CHERC-24-1160021-01-CHERC) "Empowering smoking cessation for sexual and/or gender minoritized (SGM) people in Oklahoma and the ACS South Region." Direct costs: $1,080,000
12/01/2024 - 11/30/2027
Principal Investigator, National Institute on Drug Abuse (1R34DA060534-01A1) "Developing an Empowerment Theory-based smoking cessation intervention for sexual and/or gender minority people with community partners" (Co-PI Arturo Durazo) Direct Costs: $450,000
09/01/2024 - 08/30/2025
Co-Investigator, National Cancer Institute, Administrative Supplement (Parent trial R01CA275494) “Understanding Heterogeneity in Smoking and Cessation Behaviors Among Sexual and/or Gender Minority Individuals in Dual-Smoker Couples" (PI Michelle Van Dellen) Direct costs: $100,000
Completed Funding
05/01/2022 - 09/01/2024
Principal Investigator, Stephenson Cancer Center Pilot Grant, "Empowering sexual and/or gender minority tobacco cessation: A pilot study." Direct costs: $50,000
01/01/2021 - 12/31/2022
Principal Investigator, Stephenson Cancer Center, American Cancer Society-Institutional Research Grant (IRG-19-142-01), “Piloting a Mobile Health mixed method to understand rural cancer risk-related substance use behaviors: combining smartphone data collection with qualitative mapping.” Direct costs: $50,000
11/22/2020 - 06/30/2021
Co-Investigator, TSET Health Promotion Research Center Seed Grant Funding, “Project Trinity (Health, Hope, and Healing): The Oklahoman African American Health Cohort Study.” (PI: Alexander) Direct costs: $50,000
05/01/2020 - 04/30/2022
Co-Principal Investigator, Stephenson Cancer Center, Cancer Prevention and Control Pilot Grant Program. “Identifying factors associated with vaping lapse during a quit attempt.” (MPI: Hébert, Tackett, McQuoid) Direct costs: $49,877
03/01/2019 - 02/28/2021
Principal Investigator, Fellowship Award, California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (T29FT0436), "Everyday Smoking Contexts and Practices of Bisexual Young Adults." Direct costs: $135,392
Additional Information: Early termination for faculty position start July 31, 2020
2019 - 2020
Principal Investigator, NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (1F32DA047066-01A1), "Everyday Smoking Contexts and Practices of Bisexual Young Adults." Direct costs: $61,610
Additional Information: Awarded but declined due to overlapping funding.
Select Publications:
McQuoid, J., Mataia, B., Bradley, D., Durazo, A., Frank-Pearce, S., Heffner, J. L., Islam, S., Le, M., Ling, P. M., Pan, S., Raye, T., Tan, A. S., Vogel, E. A., Wilson, M., Kendzor, D. E. (in press). “It took me on a journey other than just to stop smoking”: Pilot trial outcomes of an Empowerment Theory-based smoking cessation intervention for sexual and/or gender minoritized people. Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
Warner, E.A., Azizoddin, D., Frank-Pearce, S., Ford, L., Bradley, D., Cohn, A., Businelle, M., Spicer, P., Appleseth, H., McQuoid, J. (2024). “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, 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, Johannes Thrul (2024). Situations and roles of cannabis versus cigarette use: Integrating ecological momentary assessment with qualitative mapping interviews, Journal of Health & Place, 89(14). DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103314
McQuoid, J., Lowery, B., Wright, L. S., Cohn, A. (2023). Outdoor medical cannabis advertising in Oklahoma: Examining regulatory compliance and social meanings in billboard content. Substance Use and Misuse, 58(11), 1425-1437. DOI: 10.1080/10826084.2023.2223299
McQuoid, J., Durazo, A., Mooney, E., Heffner, J., Tan, A. S., Kong, A. Y., Horn, E. (2023). Tobacco cessation and prevention interventions for sexual and/or gender minority-identified people and the theories that underpin them: A scoping review. Nicotine and Tobacco Research.
McQuoid, J., Kean, H., Ling, P. (2022). Purposeful play: Exploring a bar-based anti-tobacco intervention for young adults. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. DOI:10.1080/09687637.2021.1932753
Holmes, L. M., McQuoid, J. M., Shah, A., Cruz, T., Akom, A., Ling, P. M. (2021). Piloting a spatial mixed method for understanding neighborhood tobacco use disparities. Social Science & Medicine, 291.PMID: 34655940. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114460
McQuoid, J., Thrul, J., Lopez-Paguyo, K., Ling, P. M. (2021). Exploring multiple drug use by integrating mobile health and qualitative mapping methods - An individual case study. International Journal of Drug Policy, 97. PMID: 34175527. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103325
McQuoid, J., Thrul, J., Ozer, E., Ramo, D., Ling, P. M. (2019). Tobacco use in the sexual borderlands: The smoking contexts and practices of bisexual young adults. Health and Place. PMID: 30639203. DOI:10/1016/j.healthplace.2018.12.010.
McQuoid, J., Keamy-Minor, E., Ling, P. M. (2018). A practice theory approach to understanding poly-tobacco use. Critical Public Health, 30(2), 204-219. PMID: 32982073. DOI:10.1080/09581596.2018.1541226.
McQuoid, J., Thrul, J. (2018). A geographically explicit ecological momentary assessment (GEMA) mixed method for understanding substance use. Social Science & Medicine, 202, 89-98. PMID: 29518701. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.02.014
McQuoid, J. (2017). Contextualising renal patient routines: Everyday space-time contexts, health service access, and wellbeing. Social Science & Medicine, 183, 142-150. PMID: 28482275. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.04.043
McQuoid, J. (2017). Finding joy in poor health: The leisure-scapes of chronic illness. Social Science & Medicine, 183, 88-96. PMID: 28475903. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.04.044
McQuoid, J. (2015). Integrating paid work and chronic illness in daily life: A space-time approach to understand the challenges. Health & Place, 34:83-91. PMID: 25968586. DOI:10.1016/j.healthplace2015.04.001
McQuoid, J. (2012). Bringing emotions to time geography: The case of mobilities of poverty. Journal of Transport Geography, 23(2012), 23; 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
Full list of publications available at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HDM-wSoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao