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The Alliance for Healthier Communities has launched a social prescribing pilot program to measure the impact of non-medical supports such as cooking classes, volunteer roles, and single-parent groups on health and well-being. Kate Mulligan, PhD, supervised in her health geography PhD by Dr. Susan Elliott, speaks about the need for innovative solutions to combat strains on the health care system, both in Ontario and the United Kingdom...

A new climate change report released by the U.S. government reveals that climate change will have a disproportionate affect on low income communities, affecting health, promoting asthma, Lyme disease, and dengue fever...

The first ever list of Canadian Women Leaders in Global Health has been published by the Canadian Society for International Health. A huge congratulations to Dr.

On Thursday October 4th, 2018, professor Ng How Yong is scheduled to present on Research Activities at the National University of Singapore Environmental Research Institute at the WaterTalks lecture series held by the University of Waterloo's Water Institute.

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!