GoHelP's Francesca Cardwell recently published a paper titled, Investigating Youth Sport Coach Perspectives of an Asthma Education Module, in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health.
Samantha Biglieri's paper, Implementing dementia-friendly land use planning: An evaluation of current literature and financial implications for Greenfield development in suburban Canada published in Planning Practice & Research is now available online. Congratulations Samantha!
A huge congratulations to GoHelP PhD students Andrea Rishworth and Joseph Kangmennaang on their manuscripts accepted for publication in Social Science & Medicine! These papers make exciting contributions to Social Science & Medicine as they explore problems of human wellbeing on a global scale.
Susan Elliott co-authors a new paper, Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms and Perceived Stress from Pregnancy to the Postnatal Period among Canadian Women: Impact of Employment and Immigration published in the American Journal of Public Health.
Sabrina Li, MSc, and George Atiim, PhD. Sabrina is off to Oxford in the fall for her PhD and George is at IDRC in Ottawa! Everyone in the lab is so proud of you both! GoHelP for life!
The Sweet Caroline Foundation in collaboration with Food Allergy Canada has announced the launch of a pilot project called Allergy Awareness for Schools. This initiative includes a powerful video called “Caroline’s Story”, in which the Lorette family shares the story of their 14-year-old daughter Caroline, who passed away from an anaphylactic reaction to dairy in 2014.
A big congratulations to Francesca Cardwell for the acceptance of her paper "Investigating youth sport coach perspectives of an asthma education model" to the Journal of Environmental and Public Health. The full article is expected to become available online soon!
Former grad student Morgan Levison visits the GoHelP lab yesterday, March 27th 2018. Morgan is a Health Promoter in the Environment and Health Area for the Simcoe-Muskoka Public Health Unit.
We set out to tell for the first time, the story of how people managed food allergies in Ghana. We learnt that while their experiences are similar to what we know in most western societies, there are peculiar challenges highlighting why we need to pay attention to the local context