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GeoHealth Network is thrilled to partner with The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) to bring you a seminar series! This series will feature students and graduates across Canada who have used CANUE datasets to advance understandings of the interactions between human health and our natural and built environments. Join us as we learn about the comprehensive range of linkable national urban exposure metrics available for health geography research and their direct applications. We will also include time for speakers to share their education and career journeys, and answer questions about their research.

Adele (Balram) Lundy 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.

A large body of evidence has demonstrated adverse affects on health associated with exposure toair pollution. Conversely, health benefits have been observed with exposure to nature and greenspace. The objective of the presentation is to investigate the role of residential greenness inmodifying associations between long-term exposures to PM2.5 and mortality.

Our 4th seminar will take place on May 21st from 1:00 - 2:00 pm EST on zoom. Register here

One lucky student will walk away with $100 cash prize!

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.

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

GeoHealth Network is thrilled to partner with The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) to bring you a seminar series! This series will feature students and graduates across Canada who have used CANUE datasets to advance understandings of the interactions between human health and our natural and built environments. Join us as we learn about the comprehensive range of linkable national urban exposure metrics available for health geography research and their direct applications. We will also include time for speakers to share their education and career journeys, and answer questions about their research.

Our 3rd seminar will take place on April 21st from 1:00 - 2:00 pm EST on zoom. Register here.

One lucky student will walk away with $100 cash prize!

This seminar will feature 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

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

GeoHealth Network is thrilled to partner with The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) to bring you a seminar series! This series will feature students and graduates across Canada who have used CANUE datasets to advance understandings of the interactions between human health and our natural and built environments. Join us as we learn about the comprehensive range of linkable national urban exposure metrics available for health geography research and their direct applications. We will also include time for speakers to share their education and career journeys, and answer questions about their research.

Our 2nd seminar will take place on March 26th from 1:00 - 2:00 pm EST on zoom. Register here.

One lucky student will walk away with $100 cash prize!

This seminar will feature 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.

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

GeoHealth Network is thrilled to partner with The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) to bring you a seminar series! This series will feature students and graduates across Canada who have used CANUE datasets to advance understandings of the interactions between human health and our natural and built environments. Join us as we learn about the comprehensive range of linkable national urban exposure metrics available for health geography research and their direct applications. We will also include time for speakers to share their education and career journeys, and answer questions about their research.

Our 1st seminar will take place on Feb 26th from 1:00 - 2:00 pm EST on zoom. Register here.

One lucky student will walk away with two books from the Global Perspectives on Health Geography series (edited by Dr. Valorie Crooks, SFU), generously donated by Springer.

This seminar will feature Dr. Eleanor Setton (Managing Director, CANUE) and Dr. Dany Doiron (Research Associate, Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, McGill University Health Centre). During this seminar, we will learn about CANUE’s mission and their available datasets and tools. A specific example of the work using CANUE data which resulted in the below publication will be discussed.

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.

Thanks to generous donations and contributions from CANUE, Springer Texts, Dr. Valorie Crooks (SFU Geography), University of Toronto Dept of Geography and Planning, and University of Toronto School of Cities!

About

Join us a FREE ArcGIS skills workshop! This event will take place in the GIS computer lab in the Sidney Smith Hall Basement (Room 620, labelled “G” on elevator). Our team will guide you through 2016 Statistics Canada census data, and help you select the geographic regions most appropriate to make a map of the City of Toronto. We will identify one variable, such as population or household income, and join this information to the appropriate geographic region using GIS software. To finish our map, we will guide you through basic cartographic principles to visualize the data in your map across Toronto.

This workshop requires no personal computer or prior knowledge of the census or GIS software, only a keen interest to learn. You will walk away with your first map, as well as new skills that can be used to visualize any other census data on a map, and potentially pair with alternate data that is reported using census regions.

This workshop is FREE, however space is limited and registration will be first-come, first-served. Please email any accessibility requests or concerns to info@geohealthnetwork.com. It is important to us that everyone feels they can meaningfully participate in this workshop.

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Happy Mapping,

GeoHealthNetwork

GeoHealth Network: Fall Speaker Series

• Thursday, October 17 2019

• 2:00 PM 4:00 PM

• Health Sciences Building, Room 574 155 College Street Toronto, ON, M5T 1P8 Canada (map)

ABOUT

Join us for our first Fall speaker series hosted by the GeoHealth Network. The speaker series will take place on Thursday October 17th from 2pm-4pm at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Room HS574. During this meeting we will introduce our executive planning team and kick off our speaker series with a presentation from Professor Dr. Dionne Gesink, hear from fellow graduate students undertaking research in the intersection of health and geography, and hear from you, our network members, to understand what brings you to the group and what you hope to learn during the 2019/2020 academic year.

Participation is FREE. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. 

Please email us with any accessibility concerns or requests at info@geohealthnetwork.com. It is important to us that everyone feels they can meaningfully participate in this group, and we will make everyone accommodation possible to assist with that goal.

Happy Mapping,

GeoHealth Network