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 Associate 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
Carlos Sanchez-Pimienta Research Associate MSc Health Promotion
Uzma Vellani Administrative Coordinator
PhD Students
Dr. Erica Phipps PhD Health Promotion, Vanier Scholar Topic: Intersectorality, housing, health equity
Sophy Chan PhD Candidate Health Promotion Topic: Olympic legacies, policy mobilities, community resistance
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
Sophie Lachapelle MSc Health Promotion Topic: Post-carceral health geographies, bio/necropolitics, mobility theories, and community reintegration
Seraphina Skands MA Geography Topic: Heritage, façadism, and Japanese-Canadian histories
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
Undergraduate Students
Anna Anbalagan Fourth Year Student, BA (Honours) Environmental Studies and Gender Studies Topic: Climate action, energy justice, health, and reconciliation
Kayla Melbourne Third Year Student, BA (Honours) Health Studies Topic: The Right to Remain, archival research, and public health
Lily Helmer-Smith Fourth Year Student, BA (Honours) Health Studies Topic: The Right to Remain, social advocacy, and archival research
Julia Moreau Fourth Year Student, BSc (Honours) Psychology and Health Studies Topic: Urban Indigenous climate action, health equity, and health policy
Emily Mohamed Martone Third Year Student, BSc (Honours) Kinesiology Topic: The Playgrounds Project, accessibility, health policy
Richelle Ignatius Third Year Student, BSc (Honours) Kinesiology Topic: The Playgrounds Project, racial and health equity, health policy