cover image: Environments and Health Summit - April 18, 2023 Nancy Edwards, RN, PhD, FCAHS

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Environments and Health Summit - April 18, 2023 Nancy Edwards, RN, PhD, FCAHS

5 May 2023

James Dunn (McMaster University), Sandra Source: Almeida (Peel Public Health) and Alex Taranu (City of Brampton) sign/ What impressed me • Embraced the complexity of environments and health in the design of your projects (complexit. [...] “two- eyed seeing”) • Capturing essence and outcomes of your research in 2-3 minutes What I’d like to know • Were you sufficiently and appropriately challenged by the RFA requirements? • Deliberate plans for scale-up (e.g. [...] environmental measures, interventions, community engagement approaches) • Pertinence of your work to Sustainable Development Goals (and Canada’s reporting on same) • Environmental measurement caveats for basic science studies • Approaches taken to reduce health inequities and to assess institutional (structural racism) • Was a citizen science approach considered? • Linking, sustaining and stewardi. [...] What hasn’t changed • Reward systems for academic research • Only 24 hours in a day • Links between government and academic scientists tenuous • Importance of capacity building with attention to career opportunities • Interdisciplinary research in this field is essential but challenging Voting with your “seat” (Standing = yes, Sitting = no) 1. [...] Successfully worked with the networks of your networked partners? Provocations • How can diversity of populations, contexts, and structural determinants be optimally harnessed for future studies on environments and health? • Does your work have implications for policy? If yes, going forward, who (else) needs to be engaged and when? • How do you plan to build on and extend the public’s growing conc.
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