GoHelP lab members participated in the 2026 International Medical Geography Symposium (IMGS), Geographies of Wellbeing: Environments, Transitions, and the Futures of Societal Wellbeing, held at Toronto Metropolitan University. The symposium brought together researchers, trainees, and practitioners from across disciplines to explore how social, environmental, and spatial transitions shape wellbeing in an increasingly complex and changing world.
Through presentations and knowledge exchange, GoHelP members contributed to conversations on health and medical geography, advancing interdisciplinary approaches to understanding issues of equity, environmental change, and community wellbeing. Explore the presentations and research contributions from GoHelP members at IMGS 2026 below to learn more about their work and the conversations shaping the future of health and medical geography.
- Pereira, R. C., & Elliott, S. J. (2026). Water inequities in low-income communities in high- and upper-middle-income countries: A political ecology of wellbeing.
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Cardwell, F. S., Elliott, S. J., & Andrews, G. J. (2026). Reflecting on a decade of health and medical geography: A systematic review.
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Elliott, S. J. (2026). Co-producing an innovative social prescribing pilot for individuals living with lupus: A study protocol.
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Chen, T. T., & Elliott, S. J. (2026). A dose of nature: Stakeholder perspectives on nature-based social prescriptions.
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Yeung, Y., & Elliott, S. J. (2026). Understanding climate-health intersections: Embodied political ecology of health and wellbeing.
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Elliott, S. J., Nunbogu, A., & Dhillon, S. (2026). Places of life in fear: The necropolitics of violence against children.
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Elliott, S. J., & Kaburia, J. (2026). A relational approach to food security: Participatory research with youth in Western Kenya.
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Musah, C., Elliott, S. J., Luginaah, I., Amoak, D., Bisung, E., Kangmennaang, J., Cardwell, F., Abu, T., Bennett, A., Akakpo, P. M., Jebuni, J., Kim, R., Walwanga, I., Ainooson, O., & Boadu, R. (2026). Frames of neglect: Necropolitics and the discursive construction of Ghana's galamsey environment-health crisis.
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Bennett, A., Dodd, W., Yeung, Y., & Elliott, S. J. (2026). Characterizing the health impacts of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) across the life course: An umbrella review.
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Barakat, C., Dhillon, S., Shields, L., & Elliott, S. J. (2026). Life-course transitions and the geographies of health: Macro- and micro-level predictors of self-rated health from childhood to adulthood.
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Abudho, B., Karanja, D., Ototo, E., Walwanga, I., Kangmennaang, J., Bisung, E., Dickin, S., Dodd, W., & Elliott, S. J. (2026). Women, water and building back better: A case study of WASH and COVID-19 in East Africa.
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Pereira, R. C., Dixon, J., Plamondon, K., Elliott, S. J., Rawat, A., Sanderson, A., & OPEN Global Health Research Team. (2026). Understanding and operationalizing equity in global health research: A critically reflective analysis of approaches to equity across the Canadian global health ecosystem.