Thanks to generous donations and contributions from CANUE,
University of Toronto Dept of Geography and Planning, and
University of Toronto School of Cities!

Seminar #1:
Environment and Health Data 101
Feb 26 2021

This seminar featured Dr. Eleanor Setton (Managing Director, CANUE) and Dr. Dany Doiron (Research Associate, Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, McGill University Health Centre). We learned about CANUE’s mission and their available datasets and tools. Dr. Doiron shared a specific example of the work using CANUE data which resulted in a publication.
Doiron, Dany, Eleanor M. Setton, Kerolyn Shairsingh, Michael Brauer, Perry Hystad, Nancy A. Ross, and Jeffrey R. Brook. ‘Healthy Built Environment: Spatial Patterns and Relationships of Multiple Exposures and Deprivation in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver’. Environment International 143 (1 October 2020): 106003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.106003.
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The prize winner from our 1st seminar on Feb 26th is Annie Yuan, Masters Student, University of Toronto Mississauga, Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment. Annie’s research interests are urban forestry, landscape planning and environmental management. For Annie’s graduate research, she is studying social-environmental relationships and examining resident’s knowledge and stewardship on green infrastructure (GI). Annie won two books from the Global Perspectives on Health Geography Series, Edited by Dr. Valorie Crooks (SFU), generously donated by Springer. Annie’s website can be found here.

Seminar #2:
Spatio-temporal Patterns
Mar 26 2021

This seminar featured Mielle Michaux. Mielle is a research assistant with the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine in Vancouver. She earned her Master’s in Geography in the Lab for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UBC studying the spatial distribution and environmental determinants of paediatric inflammatory bowel disease. Her research interests include interdisciplinary approaches to investigating how environments influence health, particularly chronic inflammatory diseases.

Michaux, Mielle. ‘Exploring Spatio-Temporal Patterns and Environmental Determinants of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease in British Columbia’. University of British Columbia, 2020. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0394067.

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Seminar #3:
Walkability and Cardiovascular Health
April 21st 2021

This seminar featured Dr. Nicholas Araki Howell. Dr Howell completed his PhD at the Institute of Health, Policy, Management and Evaluation at University of Toronto. He is currently completing the final year of his MD at University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Howell's research focuses on the links between the urban environment and cardiovascular disease. While great strides have been made in reducing rates of heart disease, it continues to be one of the largest sources of illness and death in Canada. This has led researchers to address the root causes of these illness at the population level. As part of this push, there has been an increasing focus on how features of urban environments might affect cardiovascular risk. Dr. Howell uses large administrative databases to study how features of urban design and pollution may provoke or prevent conditions like acute myocardial infarction.

Howell, N. A., Tu, J. V., Moineddin, R., Chen, H., Chu, A., Hystad, P., & Booth, G. L. (2019). Interaction between neighborhood walkability and traffic-related air pollution on hypertension and diabetes: the CANHEART cohort. Environment international, 132, 104799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.04.070

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Seminar #4:
Greenness, Air Quality and Mortality
May 21st 2021

This seminar featured Adele (Balram) Lundy and Dan Crouse. Adele is a Senior Scientific Advisor with the New Brunswick Department of Environment and Local Government with over ten years of experience in environmental epidemiology, biostatistics, GIS, and population health. She holds a Master of Public Health (Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland). Adele completed a Professional Certificate in Population Health Data Analysis from the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Dan Crouse is a health geographer and environmental epidemiologist who specializes in exposure assessment and environmental determinants of health. He holds a PhD in health geography from McGill University, and a Master’s in environmental studies from the University of Waterloo.

Crouse, Dan L., Lauren Pinault, Adele Balram, Michael Brauer, Richard T. Burnett, Randall V. Martin, Aaron van Donkelaar, Paul J. Villeneuve, and Scott Weichenthal. ‘Complex Relationships between Greenness, Air Pollution, and Mortality in a Population-Based Canadian Cohort’. Environment International 128 (1 July 2019): 292–300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.04.047.

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