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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.”
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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