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Congratulations to Leia Minaker on her co-authored paper titled, "Development of a teen-informed coding tool to measure the power of food advertisements". The article is part of the special issue Health promotion: Physical activity and nutrition behaviours in children and youth, and is available online.

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!

A huge congratulations to GoHelP's Andrea Rishworth for successfully defending her final PhD thesis on Monday September 9th, 2019! A copy of her final thesis, 'Inequalities in health and wellbeing among elderly populations: A case study of Central Uganda' will soon be available for viewing online. Way to go Andrea!

Andrea Rishworth, PhD candidate and Queen Elizabeth Scholar, writes report for research partner Reach One Touch One Uganda.  As part of the co-production of knowledge and meaningful partnerships, Andrea has provided ROTOM with a copy of research results that they can now use to advocate for the needs of the seniors they serve.

On July 1, Professor Jennifer Dean began her first term as Associate Editor for the Canadian Journal of Public Health. In this role Jennifer will promote high-quality research on environment and health to the local and national public health community.

Congratulations to PhD student Keely Stenberg for receiving a travel award from CIHR (Institute of Population and Public Health) to present her work on gender equity and healthy built environments at the annual conference of the Canadian Public Health Association.

Professor Jennifer Dean was recently awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant for her project  “Immigrant settlement in rural and remote communities: Exploring access to the social determinants of health”. This project will examine the health impacts of federal and provincial policies that promote changing immigrant settlement patterns into rural and remote communities in Ontario. The study will launch in Fall 2019.

The Geographies of Health in Place lab, in partnership with the GreenHouse innovation centre held a hackathon for lupus on the University of Waterloo campus. Students and experienced mentors got together to come up with innovative solutions during this two day event. Read the full story written by St. Paul's University College.

Congratulations to Francesca Cardwell on the acceptance of her paper titled "Understanding an environmental health risk: Investigating asthma risk perception in Ontario youth sport" to the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Well done Francesca!