GeoHealth Network is thrilled to partner with The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) to bring you a seminar series! This series will feature students and graduates across Canada who have used CANUE datasets to advance understandings of the interactions between human health and our natural and built environments. Join us as we learn about the comprehensive range of linkable national urban exposure metrics available for health geography research and their direct applications. We will also include time for speakers to share their education and career journeys, and answer questions about their research.

Our 3rd seminar will take place on April 21st from 1:00 - 2:00 pm EST on zoom. Register here.

One lucky student will walk away with $100 cash prize!

This seminar will feature Dr. Nicholas Araki Howell. Dr Howell completed his PhD at the Institute of Health, Policy, Management and Evaluation at University of Toronto. He is currently completing the final year of his MD at University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Howell's research focuses on the links between the urban environment and cardiovascular disease. While great strides have been made in reducing rates of heart disease, it continues to be one of the largest sources of illness and death in Canada. This has led researchers to address the root causes of these illness at the population level. As part of this push, there has been an increasing focus on how features of urban environments might affect cardiovascular risk. Dr. Howell uses large administrative databases to study how features of urban design and pollution may provoke or prevent conditions like acute myocardial infarction.

Howell, N. A., Tu, J. V., Moineddin, R., Chen, H., Chu, A., Hystad, P., & Booth, G. L. (2019). Interaction between neighborhood walkability and traffic-related air pollution on hypertension and diabetes: the CANHEART cohort. Environment international, 132, 104799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.04.070

Thanks to generous donations and contributions from CANUE, University of Toronto Dept of Geography and Planning, and University of Toronto School of Cities!