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Upcoming events:Researcher-Practitioner Health Equity Workshop: Bridging the Gap. National Collaborating Centre on the Determinants of Health and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institute for Population and Public Health. Toronto, 14-15 February 2012. - Melanie Rock will be representing the Centre and presenting on municipal bylaws as a tool for inter-sectoral action for population health and health equity
Research In Progress session: Wednesday, March 7 - 12 noon - Rose Room Xiuyun Wu Determinants of Health-related Quality of Life among Grade Five Students in Canada and Application to School Based Promotion of Healthy Eating and Active Living
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Congratulations to Dr. Gavin McCormack. As of February 2012 Gavin was appointed to the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary. Dr. Chris Degeling is now a Research Fellow in the Centre for Values, Ethics and Law at the University of Sydney. At VELiM, he will lead a new research theme area in animals and ethics. As a postdoctoral fellow with Melanie Rock in the Centre, Chris took the lead on two areas of research connecting non-infectious disease outcomes in human and animal populations. The research on both popular and veterinary perceptions of diet, physical activity and weight in dogs led to publications in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, Anthrozoos, the Canadian Veterinary Medical Journal (in press), and Social Epistemology (in press). The research on hemoglobinA1C in relation to type 2 diabetes and exposure to stressors in the environment led to publications in the Journal of Medical Ethics and the American Journal of Public Health. Many of us at the Centre look forward to continuing to work with Chris in his capacity as co-investigator for our CIHR-funded research on the overall health implications of allowing dogs to be off-leash in public space. Congratulations to Dan Dutton who recently published a paper, in Obesity, that quantifies how much regional variation in BMI across Canada is attributable to commonly-cited determinants of obesity and how much is attributable to idiosyncrasies in the environment. This paper shows that plausible policy options to prevent and redress obesity vary across the country. Lindsay McLaren is Dan's supervisor and second author on this paper. Congratulations to Colleen Davison on her recent move to Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. At Queen's, Colleen is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and a Research Scientist in the Clinical Research Centre, Kingston General Hospital. Colleen has been awarded an Emerging Researcher Award from PHIRN - focusing on the equity of helmet legislation in Ontario. This week we bid farewell to Lynn McIntyre's research associate, Aaron Bartoo. Aaron will shortly be relocating to the Minneapolis area as Senior Medical Scientist for Medtronic (inventor of the pacemaker) where his three pillar expertise (basic biomedical, applied clinical, and population health) will be directly applicable to his work. Congratulations to Lynn McIntyre as principal investigator for a new CIHR operating grant, titled "Long-term mental health outcomes of childhood hunger." Scott Patten of UCalgary is a co-investigator for this grant. Dr McIntyre is also a co-investigator for a new 5-year CIHR/IPPH programmatic grant, "Identifying policy interventions to reduce household food insecurity." Watch Melanie Rock's interview on Animals and Health on the Health Innovations in Context website. You can also listen to a podcast presented by Dr. Rock at the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research in Toronto.
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