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The Waterloo team will join four other Canadian communities heading to Copenhagen to learn about progressive active transportation policies and infrastructure. The planning grant on Implementing Healthy Urban Policy Planning is part of CIHR’s Healthy Cities Research Initiative and aims to...

University of Waterloo Water Institute's Derek Armitage (School of Environmental Resources and Sustainability), Susan Elliott (Geography and Environmental Management),

Susan Elliott authors a book chapter titled 'Environmental Health' pubished in the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd Edition. The chapter discusses the complex relationship between human health and the environment, and the design, measurement, and evaulation of such studies.

A new and useful paper which shows potential for hackathons in integrated Knowledge Translation is accepted for publication in Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada. The paper entitled, "Hacking Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE): Outcomes of the Waterlupus Hackathon" will appear in the journal's July 2020 issue. 

Susan Elliott is being recognized for her outstanding work in scholar mentorship in the field of allergic disease with the 2019-20 Michelle Harkness Mentorship Award.

GoHelP's Jennifer Dean publishes a new paper in collaboration with Toronto Public Health titled, Holding the keys to health? A scoping study of the population health impacts of automated vehicles. Congratulations Jennifer!

Leia Minaker's co-authored paper titled, Is cancer prevention influenced by the built environment? A multidisciplinary scoping review has been published in Cancer. Congratulations Leia!

GoHelP members continue to promote scholarship in Kenya with two new papers on water, women, and health.

Congratulations to Thelma Abu on the acceptance of her paper entitled, "What if your husband doesn't feel the pressure?: An exploration of women's involvement in WaSH decision making in Nyanchwa, Kenya". Look for this paper in the Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health....

 The Geographies of Health in Place lab welcomes PhD student Abraham Marshall Nunbogu to the University of Waterloo!

GoHelP welcomes Buba Manjang to the University of Waterloo!