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Welcome to CoPEH-Canada!
“CoPEH-Canada is an adaptive community of scholars and practitioners dedicated to the understanding, teaching and application of ecosystem approaches to address current challenges to a healthy and sustainable global future.”
CoPEH-Canada at the International EcoHealth Forum 2010 - London -- July 15, 2010
Eighteen members of the CoPEH-Canada are shcedued to attend the International Ecohealth Forum 2010 held in London (http://www.ecohealth2010.org/). Dowload the draft programme from the site (http://www.ecohealth2010.org/conference-programme) for more information.
Dr. Silvia Alonso, Royal Veterinary College, United Kingdom, CoPEH-Canada
Oral presentation: “A seminar series to explore ecosystem approaches and transdisciplinarity on research” in session Innovations in education in ecohealth
Marta Berbés-Blázquez, York University, CoPEH-Canada
Session chair: Resilience and ecohealth, what room for synergies?
Oral presentation: “Participatory management of ecosystem services in the face of export-based pineapple production in Costa Rica” in session Ecohealth and food: Engaging marginalized stakeholders in governance of the global food system
Ben Brisbois, University of British Columbia, CoPEH-Canada
Oral Presentation: “Scaling up' Ecohealth: Insights from the political ecology of pesticide exposure in Ecuador's banana industry” in session Pollutants today, a global perspective
Oral presentation: “Inter-hemispheric youth linkages and pesticide exposure: Canada-Ecuador connections to address occupational health issues of banana workers” in session Ecohealth and food: Engaging marginalized stakeholders in governance of the global food system
Dr Jeff Gilbert, Project Coordinator, International Livestock Research Institute, CoPEH-Canada
Oral presentation: “The most important zoonosis in the world” in session Zoonotic diseases
Maya Gislason, University of Sussex, Sociology, Canonbie, United Kingdom, CoPEH-Canada
Oral presentation: “Ecological thinking in the United Kingdom's Public Health Organisations: The relationship between policy and practice” in session Ecohealth in the policy arena
Sherilee Harper, University of Guelph, CoPEH-Canada
Oral presentation: “Linking Weather, Water Quality, and Health in the Context of Climate Change in Nunatsiavut, Canada” in session Climate Change and health
Oral presentation: "My Word ": Storytelling and Digital Media for Health Promotion and Research in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut” in session Indigenous Health Perspectives
Dr. Karen Houle, Univeristy of Guelph, CoPEH-Canada
Oral Presentation: “Ecohealth and the Philosophy of Science” in session Ecohealth in the policy arena
Dr. Karen Morrison, University of Guelph, CoPEH-Canada
Oral presentation: “Linking situated learning to community-level studies of social-ecological resilience” in session Ecohealth in the policy arena
Aelita Neimanis, Dalhousie University, CoPEH-Canada
Oral presentation: “A Systematic Review of the Literature on Environmental Justice: What about Ecological Integrity?” in session Environmental Justice
Jordan Sky Oestreicher, Université du Québec à Montréal, CoPEH-Canada
Oral presentation: “Gaps and overlaps in resilience-thinking and ecohealth: Evidence from a review of the literature” in session Resilience and ecohealth, what room for synergies?
Dr. Margot Parkes, University of Northern British Columbia, CoPEH-Canada
Session co-chair: Indigenous Perspectives on the Relationship Between People, Land and Well-being
David Roth, University of British Columbia, CoPEH-Canada
Oral presentation: “Avian biodiversity as a determinant of West Nile Neurological Syndrome incidence in Saskatchewan, Canada (2003-2007)” in session Avian zoonoses
Dr Céline Surette, Université de Moncton, CoPEH-Canada
Oral presentation: “How can natural scientists be active participants in ecosystem approaches to human health?” in session Ecohealth in the policy arena
Jennifer Spiegel, University of London, Canada, CoPEH-Canada
Oral presentation: “Theatricality and the politics of communication 25 years after the industrial disaster in Bhopal” in session Pollution: challenges across land, water, and air
Dr Jerry Spiegel, University of British Columbia, Liu Institute for Global Issues, CoPEH-Canada
Oral presentation: “Adapting the DPSEEA model to orient participatory action research and guide eco-health interventions” in session Ecohealth in the policy arena
Dr. Johanne St Charles, University de Quebec a Montreal, CoPEH-Canada
Participant in interactive session Communities of Practice: their role in advancing ecosystem approaches to health
Dr. David Waltner-Toews, University of Guelph, CoPEH-Canada
Poster presentation: “An Ecohealth Approach to Free-Roaming Dog Populations” Meg Lunney, Andria Jones, Enid Stiles, and David Waltner-Toews.
Dr Annalee Yassi, University of British Columbia, CoPEH-Canada
Presentation: “Is progress always progressive? Addressing the environmental, social, health and economic concerns of women who make their living from solid waste disposal sites in Ecuador - a multimedia presentation” in session Public health and ecohealth
The third edition of the CoPEH-Canada Ecohealth Training and Awards Program 2010 was held at the Université du Québec à Montréal -- June 15, 2010
CoPEH-Canada hosted an 11-day short course entitled Ecosystem
Approaches to Health (Ecohealth) in Montréal at the University
of Québec in Montréal from June 2nd to June 13th, 2010. The participants included 19 students and 5 career development participants from across the country and representing a variety of fields. We would like to thank and congratulate all of our wonderful graduates:
- Ingrid Agbato
- Silvia Alonso
- Royal Veterinary College, University Of London
- Annie Béliveau
- Université du Québec à Montréal
- Sarah Dickin
- McMaster/ UNU Institute for Water, Environment & Health
- Matt Feagan
- Ryerson and York Universities
- Sonia Fevre
- Veterinarians without Borders/Vétérinaires sans Frontières – Canada (VWB/VSF)
- Marc Fraser
- INRS -Institut Armand-Frappier, Univesrité du Québec
- Tim Gray
- Lisa Gue
- Rebecca Haber
- University of British Columbia
- Fiona Hanley
- Renée Jackson
- McGill & The Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts
- Muriel Koucoï
- Marty-Kanatakhatsus Meunier
- Université du Québec à Montréal
- Jana Miller
- Aelita Neimanis
- Michelle Peek
- Roxanne Razavi
- Nathalie Robitaille
- Université du Québec à Montréal
- Emily Root
- Audrey Simon
- Pascal Sirois
- Nancy Tanguay
- Université du Québec à Montréal
- Capo-chichi Martial Tocandji
Watch a short documentary on the CoPEH-Canada training program in ecosystem approaches to health! -- April, 2010
To see a short documentary on the 2008 course click here or, for the version with French subtitles, here.
The Philosophy of Pigs-- February 8, 2010
CoPEH-Canada researcher Karen Houle from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Guelph was interviewed about saving heritage breeds of livestock on the CBC's the Current.
You can listen to the interview by clicking here.
Ecohealth training program alumni, Syed Imran Ali, receives a Walkerton Clean Water Centre Graduate Scholarship -- November 11, 2009
Syed Imran Ali (University of Guelph), an alumni of the 2009 CoPEH-Canada EcoHealth Training Program, received a Walkerton Clean Water Centre Graduate Scholarship for his work on Alternative Safe Water Systems for South Asian Slums. Congratulations Syed!
The awardees of the 2009 edition of the Canadian Ecohealth Research Grant were:
- Marie-Ève Maillé, Université du Québec à Montréal, Communication sociale et publique
- Information et création de sens dans les conflits environnementaux (Québec)
- Vi Nguyen, University of Guelph, Population Medicine
- Identifying the Impediments and Enablers of Ecohealth for a Case Study of Health, Environmental Sanitation, and the Socioeconomic Environment in Hanam
- Jennifer Spiegel, Concordia University/University of London Interdisciplinary Humanities/Centre for Cultural Studies
- Framing the Bhopal Gas Leak: A critical investigation of theatricality and the politics of communication using an ecosystem health approach
- Jennifer Vansteenkiste, University of Western Ontario, Department of Geography
- Ecohealth Approach to Urban Food Security in Cap Haitian, Haiti
Ecohealth training programme alumni, Sherilee Harper, receives a CIHR Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship
Sherilee Harper, a 2008 CoPEH-Canada Ecohealth training programme graduate, recently received one of the most prestigious graduate scholarships in Canada, the CIHR Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. In her research, she is interested in using Ecosystem approaches to health research to investigate waterborne illnesses in vulnerable populations. She will be beginning a PhD program at the University of Guelph in the Department of Population Medicine in collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Canada in January 2010. Congratulations Sherilee!
CoPEH-Can at the International EcoHealth Forum 2008 - December 1st - 5th, Mérida, Mexico -- November 20, 2008
Twenty members of the CoPEH-Can attended the International Ecohealth Forum 2008 held in December in Merida, Mexico. Twenty-five presentations, plenaries and debates were given or chaired by CoPEH-Can members.
CoPEH-Can members participated in other activities at the Forum as well, including the IDRC organized meet and greet and the 1/2 day multi-regional COPEHs' meeting. Both events were an occasion for the members of the different CoPEHs, CoPEH-Can, CoPEH-TLAC, CoPEH MENA and CoPEh-SSA, to meet and get to know each other.
CoPEH members at the EcoHealth Forum 2008, Merida Mexico
Canadian community of practice in ecosystem approaches to health with an ecohealth training and awards program
Ecosystem Approaches to Health (Ecohealth) have developed in response to the recognition that health and wellbeing are embedded within ecosystems. Ecohealth initiatives are characterised by integrated approaches to health and environment issues, where priority is given to participatory and interdisciplinary research that is conscious of social and gender equity. Research in Ecohealth brings together researchers in natural sciences, health sciences, social sciences and beyond, who work in direct collaboration with interested parties, political decision makers and stakeholders.
The Canadian community of practice in ecosystem approaches to human health (CoPEH-Canada) is open to any person interested in ecosystem approaches in research and/or intervention related to health.
This Canadian community of practice was initiated by a consortium of researchers from the Université du Québec à Montréal, the University of Guelph and the University of British Columbia, and is financed by IDRC. The community’s foundation is built on the three initiating university’s expertise in Ecohealth approaches; an expertise that hinges on research projects, education, and development projects with Latin American, African and Asian partners.
The coordinating bodies in the institutions of the CoPEH-Canada are:
This website presents an overview of who we are and what we aspire to do. You can navigate in either English or French.
We hope you enjoy the site!
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