Recent publications

Here are some of the recent publications from the GoHelP lab. For more comprehensive listings, explore our people profiles.

2026

  • Bennett, A., Dodd, W., Yeung, Y., & Elliott, S. (2026). Characterizing the health impacts of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) across the life course: An umbrella review [Accepted manuscript]. Environmental Research Letters. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae7130
  • Cardwell, F. S., Amoak, D., Dhillon, S., & Elliott, S. J. (2026). Towards global citizenship: investigating and measuring empathy for the other in global health education. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2026.2668711

2025

  • Oluwasanya, G., Omoniyi, A., Nunbogu, A., Qadir, M. & Madani, K. (2025). Women in African Water Leadership: Numbers Don't Lie. United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. Doi: 10.53328/INR25GRP00
  • Meho-Akakpo, P., Elliott, S. J., & Bisung, E. (2025). “You don’t expect a man to make good policies that affects women’s health”: Exploring barriers and opportunities to gender transformative policymaking and programming across Ghana’s health and WaSH sectors. Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Annual Meeting, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Dhillon, S., Rishworth A., & Elliott S. J. (2025). “Aging with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review”. Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennese70028. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70028
  • Musah, C. I., Elliott, S. J., Omondi, I., Bisung, E., Dickin, S., & Rishworth, A. (2025). Intersecting vulnerabilities: Health and wellbeing of older adults in Uganda during a global health crisis. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 8, 100243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2025.100243

2024

  • Brubacher, L. J., Chen, T. T. W., Longboat, S., Dodd, W., Peach, L., Elliott, S. J., Patterson, K., & Neufeld, H. (2024). Climate change, biodiversity loss, and Indigenous Peoples’ health and wellbeing: a systematic umbrella review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 13(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002995

  • Thompson, C., Elliott S.J., Meyer, S., Leatherdale S. & Majowitz S. (2024). Attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control factors influencing Canadian secondary school students’ milk and milk alternatives consumption Public Health Nutrition 2024

  • Yeung, Y., & Elliott, S. J. (2024). Investigating Student Perceptions and Vulnerability to Heat Stress in Campus Residences Using Reddit: Climate Change, Health, and Wellbeing. Canadian Geographies. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12912

  • Shantz, E., Elliott, S.J, Sperling, C., et al. (2024). Towards an understanding of the biopsychosocial determinants of CVD in SLE: a scoping review. Lupus Science & Medicine; 11:e001155. doi: 10.1136/lupus-2024-001155 

  • Dhillon, S., Luginaah, I., Elliott, S. J., Nagawa, J., & Niwagaba, R. A. (2024). The impacts of COVID-19 on older adults in Uganda and Ethiopia: Perspectives from non-governmental organization staff and volunteers. PLOS Global Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003691

  • Kangmennaang, J. (2024) The syndemics of food and water insecurities on emotional distress and overall wellbeing in Ghana: findings from a cross-sectional study. Water Security. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2024.100180

  • Ototo, E. N., Karanja, D. S., & Elliott, S. J. (2024). “If I was in charge”: A qualitative investigation of water security, gender-based violence and wellbeing in Kenya. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 100230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2024.100230 

     

2023

  • Nunbogu, A. M. (In Press). We are all women here in Canada: intimate bargains in WASH spaces.Social Science and Medicine.

  • Dogoli, M. A., Nunbogu, A. M., & Elliott, S. J. (2023). Attention to the needs of women and girls in WASH: An analysis of WASH policies in selected sub-Saharan African countries. Global Public Health, 18(1), 2256831. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2023.2256831

  • Bennett, A., Demaine, J., Dorea, C., & Cassivi, A. (2023). A bibliometric analysis of global research on drinking water and health in low- and lower-middle-income countries. Journal of Water and Health, 21(3), 417–438. https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2023.293

  • Curty Pereira, R., Elliott, S. J., & Llaguno Cárdenas, P. (2023). Stepping into the Void: Lessons Learned from Civil Society Organizations during COVID-19 in Rio de Janeiro. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20085507 
  • Nunbogu, A. M., Elliott, S. J., & Bisung, E. (2023). I feel the pains of our past water struggles anytime I turn on the tap: Diaspora perceptions and experiences of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) gendered violence in Ghana. Social Science & Medicine, 317, 115621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115621

2022

  • Abu, T., & Elliott, S. J. (2022). The critical need for WASH in emergency preparedness in health settings: the case of COVID-19 pandemic in Kisumu Kenya. Health and Place.
  • Alsabbagh, M. W., Cooke, M., Elliott, S. J., Chang, F., Shah, N.-U.-H., & Ghobrial, M. (2022). Stepping up to the Canadian opioid crisis: A longitudinal analysis of the correlation between socioeconomic status and population rates of opioid-related mortality, hospitalization and emergency department visits (2000-2017). Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice, 42(6), 229–237. https://doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.42.6.01
  • Butler, A. E., Battista, K., Leatherdale, S. T., Meyer, S. B., Elliott, S. J., & Majowicz, S. E. (2022). A comparison of repeat cross-sectional and longitudinal results from the COMPASS study: Design considerations for analysing surveillance data over time. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 25(5), 597–609. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2021.1922804
  • Buttazzoni, A., Dean, J., & Minaker, L. (2022). Urban design and adolescent mental health: a qualitative examination of adolescent emotional responses to pedestrian-and transit-oriented design and cognitive architecture concepts. Health & Place, 76, 102825
  • Buttazzoni, A., Ellard, C., Sadiora, S., & Minaker, L. (2022). Toward conceptualizing “place immersion” as a spatial neuropsychosocial phenomenon: A multidisciplinary meta-review and-synthesis. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 101810.
  • Buttazzoni, A., Parker, A., & Minaker, L. (2021). Investigating the mental health implications of urban environments with neuroscientific methods and mobile technologies: A systematic literature review. Health & Place, 70, 102597.
  • Cardwell, F. S., Clarke, A. E., & Elliott, S. J. (2022). Investigating self-reported food allergy prevalence in Waterloo Region, Canada. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe Canadien. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12800
  • Cardwell, F. S., Elliott, S. J., Chin, R., St Pierre, Y., Choi, M. Y., Urowitz, M. B., Ruiz-Irastorza, G., Bernatsky, S., Wallace, D. J., Petri, M. A., Manzi, S., Bae, S.-C., Shin, J.-M., Mak, A., Cho, J., Peschken, C. A., Ramsey-Goldman, R., Fortin, P. R., Hanly, J. G., … Clarke, A. E. (2022). Health information use by patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) pre and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lupus Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1136/lupus-2022-000755
  • Cardwell, F. S., Elliott, S. J., Chin, R., St. Pierre, Y., Ben-Shoshan, M., Chan, E. S., . . . Clarke, A. E. (2022). Economic burden of food allergy in Canada: Estimating costs and identifying determinants. Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anai.2022.04.027
  • Dixon, J., Cardwell, F. S., Clarke, A. E., & Elliott, S. J. (2022). Choices are inevitable: A qualitative exploration of the lifecosts of systemic lupus erythematosus. Chronic Illness, 18(1), 125–139. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742395320910490
  • Elliott, S. J. (2022). Changing geographies of aging on a global scale: The knowledge to action gap. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe Canadien, 66(1), 60–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12751
  • Elliott, S. J. (2022). Global health for all by 2030. Canadian Journal of Public Health volume, 113, 175–177. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-022-00623-x
  • Kangmennaang, J., & Elliott, S. J. (2018). Towards an integrated framework for understanding the links between inequalities and wellbeing of places in low and middle income countries. Social Science & Medicine, 213, 45–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.07.002
  • Marshall Nunbogu, A., & Elliott, S. J. (2022). Characterizing gender-based violence in the context of water, sanitation, and hygiene: A scoping review of evidence in low- and middle-income countries. Water Security. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2022.100113
  • Ochola, E. A., Karanja, D. M., & Elliott, S. J. (2022). Local tips, global impact: community‑driven measures as avenues of promoting inclusion in the control of neglected tropical diseases: a case study in Kenya. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-022-01011-w
  • Olstad, D. L., Nejatinamini, S., Campbell, D., Vanderlee, L., Livingstone, K., Kirkpatrick, S. I., Minaker, L. M., Tang, K., & Hammond, D. (2022). Stress-related poor diet quality does not explain socioeconomic inequities in health: A structural equation mediation analysis of gender-specific pathways. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2021.09.018
  • Rishworth, A., & Elliott, S. J. (2022). Global Discourses and Local Disconnects: Gender, Aging, Health, and Well-Being in Uganda. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2021.1997567
  • Rishworth, A., & Elliott, S. J. (2022). Walking the health geographers' talk: Aging and health inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12761
  • Saggioro Garcia, A., & Curty Pereira, R. (2022). Political economy of South–South relations: An analysis of BRICS’ investment protection agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean. Third World Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2022.2128328
  • Stevenson, A. C., Kaufman, C., Colley, R. C., Minaker, L. M., Widener, M. J., Burgoine, T., Sanmartin, C., & Ross, N. A. (2022). A pan-Canadian dataset of neighbourhood food environment measures using Statistics Canada’s Business Register. Health Reports. https://www.doi.org/10.25318/82-003-x202200200001-eng

2021

  • Abu, T. Z., Elliott, S. J., & Karanja, D. (2021). ‘When you preach water and you drink wine’: WASH in healthcare facilities in Kenya. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 11(4), 558–569. https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2021.238
  • Alsabbagh, M. W., Chang, F., Cooke, M., Elliott, S. J., & Chen, M. (2021). National trends in population rates of opioid-related mortality, hospitalization and emergency department visits in Canada between 2000 and 2017. A population-based study. Addiction, 116(12), 3482–3493. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15571
  • Atiim, G. A., Bisung, E., & Elliott, S. J. (2021). Using Participatory Photovoice Research to Understand Food Allergy Risk in Accra, Ghana. In P. T. Makanga (Ed.), Practicing Health Geography: The African Context (pp. 115–128). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63471-1_9  
  • Berrang-Ford, L., Siders, A. R., Lesnikowski, A., Fischer, A. P., Callaghan, M. W., Haddaway, N. R., Mach, K. J., Araos, M., Shah, M. A. R., Wannewitz, M., Doshi, D., Leiter, T., Matavel, C., Musah-Surugu, J. I., Wong-Parodi, G., Antwi-Agyei, P., Ajibade, I., Chauhan, N., Kakenmaster, W., … Abu, T. Z. (2021). A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change. Nature Climate Change, 11(11). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01170-y
  • Buttazzoni, A., Parker, A., & Minaker, L. M. (2021). Investigating the mental health implications of urban environments with neuroscientific methods and mobile technologies: A systematic literature review. Health and Place. 70, 102597.  https://doi-org.proxy.lib.uwaterloo.ca/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102597
  • Cardwell, F. S., Dixon, J., Clarke, A. E., & Elliott, S. J. (2021). Canadian workplace experiences of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Lupus Science & Medicine, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1136/lupus-2021-000536
  • Cardwell, F. S., Elliott, S. J., & Clarke, A. E. (2021). The value of hackathons in integrated knowledge translation (iKT) research: Waterlupus. Health Research Policy and Systems, 19(1), 138. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00785-z
  • Clarke, A. E., Elliott, S. J., St. Pierre, Y., Soller, L., La Vieille, S., & Ben-Shoshan, M. (2021). Demographic characteristics associated with food allergy in a Nationwide Canadian Study. Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, 17(1), 72. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13223-021-00572-z
  • Curty, R. (2021). The other side of the renminbi: applying Robert Cox’s Critical Theory to the China-Latin American relations. Revista NEIBA, 10(1), 58881. https://doi.org/10.12957/neiba.2021.58881
  • Curty Pereira, R., & Garcia, A. (2021). A teoria crítica de Robert W. Cox como método para uma análise das relações entre China e América Latina.OIKOS, 20(2), 184-201. http://www.revistaoikos.org/seer/index.php/oikos/article/view/746
  • Elliott, S. J. (2021). COVID-19 in the Developing World: Curse or Blessing? In G. J. Andrews, V. A. Crooks, J. R. Pearce, & J. P. Messina (Eds.), COVID-19 and Similar Futures: Pandemic Geographies (pp. 291–298). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70179-6_38
  • Elliott, S. J. (2021). Wellbeing: a means for informed policy-making. In B. A. Searle, J. Pykett, & M. J. Alfaro-Simmonds (Eds.), A Modern Guide to Wellbeing Research. Elgar Publishing.
  • Kangmennaang, J., & Elliott, S. J. (2021). Linking water (in)security and wellbeing in low-and middle-income countries. Water Security, 13, 100089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2021.100089
  • Lindamood, D., Armitage, D., Sharmin, D. F., Brouwer, R., Elliott, S. J., Liu, J. A., & Khan, M. R. (2021). Assessing the capacity for adaptation and collaboration in the context of freshwater pollution management in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Environmental Science & Policy, 120, 99–107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.02.015
  • Liu, B., Widener, M., Lindsey, S., Farber, S., Minaker, L. M., Patterson, Z., Larsen, K., Gilliland, J. (2021). Disentangling Time Use, Food Environment, and Food Behaviors using Multi-Channel Sequence Analysis. Geographical Analysis.
  • Manjang, B., Ochola, E. A., & Elliott, S. J. (2021). The use of non-pharmaceutical interventions for the prevention and control of schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review. Global Public Health, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2020.1869799
  • Ochola, E. A., Elliott, S. J., & Karanja, D. (2021). The Impact of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) on Women's Health and Wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A Case Study of Kenya. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(4), 2180. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18042180
  • Ochola, E. A., Karanja, D. M., & Elliott, S. J. (2021). The impact of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) on health and wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A case study of Kenya. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009131
  • Olstad, D. L., Nejatinamini, S., Victorino, C., Kirkpatrick, S. I., Minaker, L. M., McLaren, L. (2021). Socioeconomic inequities in diet quality among a nationally representative sample of adults living in Canada: An analysis of trends between 2004 and 2015. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  https://doi-org.proxy.lib.uwaterloo.ca/10.1093/ajcn/nqab249
  • Olstad, D. L., Nejatinamini, S., Victorino, C., Kirkpatrick, S. I., Minaker, L. M., McLaren, L. (2021). Trends in socioeconomic inequities in diet quality between 2004 and 2015 among a nationally representative sample of children in Canada. The Journal of Nutrition.  https://doi-org.proxy.lib.uwaterloo.ca/10.1093/jn/nxab297
  • Ong, V., Skinner, K., & Minaker, L. M. (2021). Life stories of food agency, health, and resilience in a rapidly gentrifying urban centre: Building a multidimensional concept of food access. Social Science & Medicine, 280, 114074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114074
  • Salubi, E. A., & Elliott, S. J. (2021). Geospatial analysis of cholera patterns in Nigeria: findings from a cross-sectional study. BMC infectious diseases, 21(1), 202. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-05894-2
  • Shantz, E., & Elliott, S. J. (2021). From social determinants to social epigenetics: Health geographies of chronic disease. Health & Place, 69, 102561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102561
  • Smith, L., Liu, B., Farber, S., Larsen, K., Patterson, Z., Minaker, L. M., Gilliland, J., Widener, M. (2021). Comparing household and individual measures of access through a food environment lens: what household food opportunities are missed when measuring access to food retail at the individual level? Annals of the American Association of Geographers. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2021.1930513
  • Trottier, H., & Elliott, S. J. (2021). World Health Organization recommends first malaria vaccine. Canadian Journal of Public Health = Revue Canadienne De Sante Publique, 112(6), 967–969. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00593-6
  • Rishworth, A., & Elliott, S. J. (2021). Global discourses and local disconnects: Experiences of gender, aging, health and wellbeing in Uganda. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 
  • Zimmerer, K., Seto, K., Duvall, C., Minaker, L. M., & Reardon, T. (2021). Urbanization and Agrobiodiversity: Leveraging a key sustainability nexus. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.10.012

2020

  • Abu, T. Z., & Elliott, S. J. (2020). When It Is Not Measured, How Then Will It Be Planned for? WaSH a Critical Indicator for Universal Health Coverage in Kenya. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(16). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165746
  • Asai, Y., Martino, D., Eiwegger, T., Nadeau, K., Koppelman, G. H., Clarke, A. E., Lee, Y., Chan, E. S., Simons, E., Laprise, C., Mazer, B., Marenholz, I., Royce, D., Elliott, S. J., Hampson, C., Gerdts, J., Eslami, A., Soller, L., Hui, J., … Daley, D. (2020). Phenotype consensus is required to enable large‐scale genetic consortium studies of food allergy. Allergy, 75(9), 2383–2387. https://doi.org/10.1111/all.14333
  • Butler, A. E., Battista, K., Leatherdale, S. T., Meyer, S. B., Elliott, S. J., & Majowicz, S. E. (2020). Environmental Factors of Youth Milk and Milk Alternative Consumption. American Journal of Health Behavior, 44(5), 666–680. https://doi.org/10.5993/AJHB.44.5.10
  • Buttazzoni, A., Veenhof, M. & Minaker, L. (2020). Smart city and high-tech urban interventions targeting human health: An equity-focused systematic review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(7), 2325. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072325
  • Cardwell, F. S., Bisung, E., Clarke, A. E., & Elliott, S. J. (2020). Hacking systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE): Outcomes of the Waterlupus hackathon. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice, 40(7–8), 235–244. https://doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.40.7/8.03
  • Clarke, A. E., Elliott, S. J., St. Pierre, Y., Soller, L., La Vieille, S. L., & Ben-Shoshan, M. (2020). Comparing food allergy prevalence in vulnerable and nonvulnerable Canadians. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 8(7), 2425–2430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2020.03.037
  • Clarke, A. E., Elliott, S. J., Pierre, Y. S., Soller, L., Vieille, S. L., & Ben-Shoshan, M. (2020). Temporal trends in prevalence of food allergy in Canada. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 8(4), 1428-1430.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2019.10.021
  • Dixon, J. Cardwell, F. S., Clarke, A.E. & Elliott, S.J. (2020). Choices are inevitable: A qualitative exploration of the lifecosts of systemic lupus erythematosus. Chronic Illness. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742395320910490
  • Kangmennaang, J., Bisung, E. & Elliott, S.J. (2020). 'We Are Drinking Diseases’: Perception of Water Insecurity and Emotional Distress in Urban Slums in Accra, Ghana. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(3), 890. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030890
  • Li, S., Schmidt, A. M., & Elliott, S. J. (2020). Socioeconomic factors and bacillary dysentery risk in Jiangsu Province, China: a spatial investigation using Bayesian hierarchical models. International Journal of Environmental Health Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2020.1746745
  • Onyango, E. O., & Elliott, S. J. (2020). Bleeding Bodies, Untrustworthy Bodies: A Social Constructionist Approach to Health and Wellbeing of Young People in Kenya. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(20), 7555. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207555
  • Rios, S., Meyer, S. B., Hirdes, J., Elliott, S., & Perlman, C. M. (2021). The development and validation of a marginalization index for inpatient psychiatry. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 67(4), 324–334. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764020950785
  • Rishworth, A., Elliott, S. J., & Kangmennaang, J. (2020). Getting old well in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the social and structural drivers of subjective wellbeing among elderly men and women in Uganda. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(7), 2347. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072347
  • Springer, R. & Elliott, S.J. (2020). “There’s not really much consideration given to the effect of the climate on NCDs”: An exploration of knowledge and attitudes of health professionals on the relationship between climate change and NCDs in Barbados. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(1), 198. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010198