A huge congratulations to GoHelP's Elizabeth Opiyo Onyango for successfully defending her final PhD thesis on Thursday March 21st, 2019! A copy of her final thesis, 'Exploring Health and Wellbeing in a Low-to-Middle Income Country: A Case Study of Kenya' will soon be available for viewing online. Way to go Elizabeth!
In recognition of World Water Day, which was held on March 22, 2019, The Lancet published a commentary entitled, "On World Water Day, gender equality and empowerment require attention". The underlying theme of leaving no one behind highlights gender equality within water resource management and climate change adaptation programmes...
GoHelP PhD student Roxanne Springer shares her unique experience as a Queen Elizabeth Scholar at the University of Waterloo in an article published by the university's
GoHelP alumnus Elijah Bisung (Queen's University) and Susan Elliott's co-authored paper titled, "Community water supply improvement and wellbeing: A pre-post photovoice intervention study in Kenya" will be published in the journal Habitat International.
In an article written for NBC news, Timothy Caulfield, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Alberta, speaks of the dire consequences associated with drinking raw water, a trend that is gaining popularity in North America...
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!
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.