Health

Our researchers are dedicated to helping develop healthy and inclusive communities and explore topics from medical geography to smart cities. 

Get to know their areas of expertise.

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Our researchers

Jennifer Dean

School of Planning

Susan Elliott

Geography and Environmental Management

  • Network for Aging Research
  • Medical geography, with primary research foci in the area of environment and health

  • The global environment
  • Urban social geography
  • Philosophy and method in the social sciences

Jane Law

School of Planning

  • Spatial epidemiology

  • Crime mapping
  • GIS and public health
  • Advanced spatial statistical analysis and bayesian spatial modelling
  • Spatial demography
  • Neighbourhood/community studies
  • Smart cities
  • Can also supervise graduate students in Geography and Environmental Management
Leia Minaker
Associate professor and Director of Future Cities Institute, Leia Minaker

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Leia Minaker

School of Planning

  • Food environment assessment

  • Population and public health
  • Population health intervention research
  • Food access in cities and planning for healthy food access
  • Social determinants of health

Peter Crank

Geography and Environmental Management

  • Urban climate
  • Urban environmental health 
  • Extreme heat 
  • Biometeorology
  • Can also supervise graduate students in the Faculty of Environment