Working with communities to build knowledge for healthy and just environments for all.
Our Team
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Faculty
Dr. Jeffrey Masuda, Director Canada Research Chair in Environmental Health Equity Professor School of Kinesiology and Health Studies School of Environmental Studies (cross-appointed) Department of Geography and Planning (cross-appointed) Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (affiliate faculty)
Dr. Elijah Bisung, Associate Director Assistant Professor School of Kinesiology and Health Studies
Dr. Heather Castleden, Senior Associate Canada Research Chair in Reconciling Relations for Health, Environments, and Communities Associate Professor Department of Geography and Planning School of Environmental Studies (cross-appointed) Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (affiliate faculty)
Support
Robert Huff Web & Media Consultant
PhD Students
Florence A. Dery PhD Candidate Health Promotion Topic: Access to water, sanitation & hygiene, women empowerment, and health outcomes in low income countries
Meshack Achore PhD Candidate Health Promotion Topic: Direct and indirect cost of adult-onset systemic lupus erythematosus
Master’s Students
(Progga) Adiba Mir MSc Health Promotion Topic: Mental Health, immigration, and displacement
Megan Fleming MSc Health Promotion Topic: Natural disasters, risk perception, and psychosocial wellbeing
Abby Wilson MSc Health Promotion Topic: Rural youth mental health, health policy, youth advocacy
Fariha Tabassum MA Sociocultural Studies of Health and Illness Topic: Colonial Medicine
Aaron Bailey MSc Health Promotion Topic: The Right to Remain, Alcohol Policy, Harm Reduction, Housing
Erica Shardlow MSc Health Promotion Topic: Climate action, Indigenous health and knowledge systems, youth leadership
Emily Bell MSc Health Promotion Topic: Climate change, psychosocial health, youth activism
Undergraduate Students
Kayla Melbourne Third Year Student, BA (Honours) Health Studies Topic: The Right to Remain, archival research, and public health
Sarah Mallen Third Year Student, BA (Honours) Health Studies Major, Minor in Environmental Studies Topic: The Right to Remain, disability studies, accessibility, housing
Haley Cotnam Fourth Year Student, BA (Honours) Health Studies Major, Minor in Global Development Studies Topic: Media Analysis of Post-War SROs in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside