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!
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....
Dr. Elijah Bisung, Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's
Dr. George Atiim, International Development Research Centre award recipient, speaks to the rise of non-communicable diseases in low and middle income countries in a news article. Read the full article, "Diet related epidemics on the rise" online.
The 2019 Canadian Conference on Global Health (CCGH) is taking place October 17th - 19th in Ottawa, Ontario. Students, researchers, policy makers, and stakeholders are all welcome to attend, and to submit abstracts for...
Andrea Rishworth and Susan Elliott co-author a newly published paper entitled, Global environmental chang