Grant: Travel Awards - Institute Community Support
University of Toronto
$1,500.00
Healthy Cities Initiative Workshop
FY 2017-18
Summary
I am a former community health practitioner who went on to complete a Masters of Public Health, and am currently completing a doctoral degree program in applied public health with a focus on population health strategies to improve food access. I have over 10 years of professional and research experience in healthy cities, including 2 years of senior municipal government experience as a Toronto Urban Fellow/Policy Development Officer with the City of Toronto, where I worked on a variety of cross-divisional initiatives oriented towards innovative and sustainable strategies to improve social determinants of health. My current research is funded by a CIHR Doctoral Award in Knowledge Translation, and I play a key leadership role in the local implementation of the CIHR-funded Food Retail Environments Shaping Health-Intervention Toolkit (FRESH-IT) project (PI: C. Mah) in collaboration with the Northern Health Authority. This project provides a platform for my thesis research, which examines the role of local context in municipal population health interventions to improve food environments.
Department
Program
Travel Awards - Institute Community Support
Recipient
Location
Ontario, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
CIHR Funding Decisions Database
As published
Id
368425
Name
Hasdell Rebecca C
Region
Ontario
Country
Canada
Orgtype
Institution Paid; Research Institution
Instname2
Population and Public Health
Theme2
Social / Cultural / Environmental / Population Health
Prcname2
IPPH - Healthy Cities Initiative Workshop
Projecttitle
Healthy Cities Initiative Workshop
Programtype2
Undefined
Orgnameinp2
University of Toronto
Cihramount2
$1,500
Cihrequipment2
$0
Programname2
Travel Awards - Institute Community Support
Keyworddelim
Community Economic Development; Environmental Sustainability; Food Access; Healthy Public Policy; Municipal Governance; Poverty Reduction
Abstract
I am a former community health practitioner who went on to complete a Masters of Public Health, and am currently completing a doctoral degree program in applied public health with a focus on population health strategies to improve food access. I have over 10 years of professional and research experience in healthy cities, including 2 years of senior municipal government experience as a Toronto Urban Fellow/Policy Development Officer with the City of Toronto, where I worked on a variety of cross-divisional initiatives oriented towards innovative and sustainable strategies to improve social determinants of health. My current research is funded by a CIHR Doctoral Award in Knowledge Translation, and I play a key leadership role in the local implementation of the CIHR-funded Food Retail Environments Shaping Health-Intervention Toolkit (FRESH-IT) project (PI: C. Mah) in collaboration with the Northern Health Authority. This project provides a platform for my thesis research, which examines the role of local context in municipal population health interventions to improve food environments.
Competitiondate
201707
Approvedterm2
1 yr 0 mth
Pinamesdelim
Hasdell, Rebecca C
Approvedterm
1 an 0 mois
Cihrcontribution2
Inst of Population &Publ Hlth~ $1,500~ $0~
