Recent presentations

Traveling to conferences and sharing with our peers is an important part of the work we do. Click the links below to find PDF copies of some of the recent posters and presentations the GoHelP team has made:

2025

Curty Pereira, R., & Elliott, S. J. (2025). A political ecology of wellbeing: Contextual understandings of “wellbeing” in a case study of water inequities in Rio de Janeiro. Paper presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Ottawa, Canada.

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 Annual Meeting, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

Ozkardas, S., Fogaça, A., Huang, M., & Curty Pereira, R. (2025). From disruption to inclusion: Bridging intercultural barriers for international students. Paper presented at the University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference, Waterloo, Canada.

2024

Curty Pereira, R., & Elliott, S. J. (2024). “We succeed when our projects are context-specific”: Documenting solutions to water, sanitation, and hygiene inequities in Brazil. Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting: Edges, St. John’s, Canada.

Curty Pereira, R., & Elliott, S. J. (2024). The periphery of the periphery: Civil society organizations navigating inequities in access to water, sanitation, and hygiene in Rio de Janeiro. Paper presented at the International Medical Geography Symposium: Health and Medical Geographers in a Changing World: Looking Back and Moving Forward, Atlanta, United States.

Curty Pereira, R., & Elliott, S. J. (2024). Thirst, poop, and filth: Collaborative solutions to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) inequities in Brazil. Paper presented at World Water Day, Waterloo, Canada.

Meho-Akakpo, P., Elliott, S. J., & Bisung, E. (2024, November 2). “Enough of the taboos, give us a chance to make decisions that affects our 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 – Ontario Division Annual Meeting, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada.

Shantz, E., & Elliott, S. J. (2024). Knowledge to equity action through integrated knowledge translation: A case study of childhood violence. Paper presented at the International Medical Geography Symposium, Atlanta, GA, United States.

Shantz, E., & Elliott, S. J. (2024). Leveraging Google Trends for the reduction of lupus-related health disparities in Canada. Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, St. John’s, Canada.

Shantz, E., & Elliott, S. J. (2024). Integrated knowledge translation as a tool for global health policy impact: A qualitative exploration of researcher knowledge, attitudes, and expectations. Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers – Ontario Division Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

2023

Curty Pereira, R., & Elliott, S. J. (2023). Embracing creativity and input from research partners: Lessons learned from an integrated knowledge translation approach to the WASH-health field. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting and Conference of the Ontario Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Toronto, Canada.

Garcia, A. S., & Curty Pereira, R. (2023). Political economy of South-South relations: An analysis of BRICS’ investment protection agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean. Paper presented at LASA 2023: América Latina y el Caribe: Pensar, Representar y Luchar por los Derechos, Vancouver, Canada.

Musah, C. I., & Elliott, S. J. (2023). Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the psychosocial health and well-being of older adults in Uganda. Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Shantz, E., & Elliott, S. J. (2023). Chronic disease, planetary social thought, and social epigenetics. Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

2022

Curty Pereira, R., & Elliott, S. J. (2022). Lessons from civil society organizations supporting vulnerable populations in Rio de Janeiro during the COVID-19 pandemic. Paper presented at the International Medical Geography Symposium, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Musah, C. I., Elliott, S. J., & Rishworth, A. (2022). Multiple jeopardies: COVID-19 related health and well-being of older adults in Uganda. Paper presented at the Canadian Conference on Global Health, Toronto, Canada.

Walugembe, D., Dixon, J., Plamondon, K., & Curty Pereira, R. (2022). Mapping Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine policy: Global equity saviour or scoundrel? Paper presented at the Canadian Conference on Global Health: Towards Inclusive Global Health—Research and Practice Priorities in Uncertain Times, Toronto, Canada.

2021

Curty Pereira, R. & Elliott. S. J. (2021). Stepping into the void: Civil society partnerships for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic among WaSH-deprived populations in Rio de Janeiro.2021 Canadian Conference on Global Health: Rethinking Partnership Paradigms in Global Health, Ottawa, November 25-26, 2021.

Dixon, J., Plamondon, K., Curty Pereira, R. Nunbogu, A. & Khan, S. (2021). Is equity on the funding landscape? An analysis of the ways in which funding policies and practices shape equitable partnerships in global health. 2021 Canadian Conference on Global Health: Rethinking Partnership Paradigms in Global Health, Ottawa, November 25-26, 2021.