Fires, floods. Extinction, equity. Deforestation, disease. Climate change, crisis.
Are you preoccupied by complex issues influencing the health of ecosystems, communities, humans or animals?
Transition, regenerative practices, resilience, adaptation, decolonization
Looking for approaches that can help you and your research or practice contribute to regenerative processes healing people, animals, ecosystems and the planet?
Discover innovative and dynamic approaches for better understanding the multiple factors which influence health – ecosystem approaches to health – with an experienced, pan-Canadian team. During this intensive course, you will learn methods for carrying out research and interventions on issues at the confluence of health, the environment and society.
This part online, part face-to-face (this will depend on university directives in the context of the evolving COVID-19 crisis) graduate level course on ecosystem approaches to health will be held at three “sites” in May: Montréal (UQAM), Guelph (University of Guelph), and an online “site.” Seven two-hour sessions (eight in the case of the online group) are conducted as simultaneous webinars across the sites. The rest of the time for the two university groups will be locally run sessions, including field trips (conditions permitting). We offer a rigorous, hands-on pedagogical approach.
This course is available to graduate students from all disciplines and also to professionals interested in these themes. It is possible to register for the full course for credit at one of the participating universities or to follow the eight webinars only, on-line (a certificate of completion is provided).
In 2020, the schedule for the webinars was Tuesdays and Thursdays from May 5th (webinar-only participants)/May 7th (all participants start) to May 28th from 1:30 pm (EST), ending at 3:30 (EST). We will update the 2021 schedule early in the new year.
Date | Topic | Lead |
May 5 (online "site" only) | Orientation to Hybrid Course/Webinar Series: Introduction & History of Principles of Ecohealth | Jena Webb, UQAM |
May 7 | Case study: Health across species | Margot Parkes, UNBC; Jane Parmley, UofGuelph |
May 12 | Complexity & Systems Thinking | Jane Parmley, UofGuelph |
May 14 | Sex, Gender, & Social Equity | Johanne Saint-Charles, UQAM; Jena Webb, UQAM |
May 19 | Knowledge Translation | Audrey Simon, UdM;André Ravel, UdM |
May 21 | Resilience & Sustainability | Margot Parkes, UNBC;Sandra Harris |
May 26 | Transdisciplinarity & Knowledges | Jane Parmley, UoGuelph; Chelsea Himsworth, UBC |
May 28 *NEW* | Synthesis with expert panel on pandemics | Panel: Mélanie Lafrançois, UQAM; Samira Mubareka, Sunnybrook Research Institute; David Waltner-Toews, UofGuelph |
* Fees apply, please contact us for more details as wel have a sliding payscale
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Three of the blogs written in the context of the 8th CoPEH-Canada field school (2015; Montréal) were published on the "Semaine du Saint-Laurent" website (French only), in conjunction with the the David Suzuki Foundation, in the lead up to their 4th edition of the Saint Lawrence River appreciation week.