JUNE | 2023
- Funding Opportunity: Healthy Cities Research Initiative
- Globe and Mail: Wildfires impairing air quality across Western Canada
- Toronto Star: Wildfires made Calgary the most polluted city on Earth. Here’s how air pollution harms our health
- New Data on the CANUE Data Portal
- Recent Publications
MAY | 2023
- Environments and Health Research Summit Recordings
- Participate in a project investigating parent and child perceptions of playable neighbourhoods
- Recent publications featuring CANUE data
JANUARY | 2023
- New Research Investigates Influence of Neighbourhood Built Environments on Outdoor Play of Children
- New Research Finds Higher Ozone Levels May Increase Odds of Developing Balance Problems
- Vancouver Sun: “For most air pollutants, there are no safe levels, so really you need to keep reducing”
- Emerging Mobility Scholars Conference | June 22-23, 2023
- Call for Papers: International Journal of Public Health
- Call for Abstracts: World Non-Communicable Diseases Congress
DECEMBER | 2022
NOVEMBER 21 | 2022
- CANUE Opportunity: Research Data Programmer
- Occupational and Environmental Health Webinar: The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress
- Occupational and Environmental Health Webinar: Neighbourhood Walkability and Associations with Mortality
- New Paper: Predicting walk-to-work using street level imagery and deep learning in seven Canadian cities
- CANUE Researchers Receive: CIHR Healthy Cities Grant
OCTOBER 25 | 2022
- CANUE Expert Webinar: Noise Pollution and Health
- Learn How the HealthyPlan.City Tool can Promote Healthy and Equitable Cities
- CANUE Expert Webinar Recording: Air Pollution, Electric Vehicles and Health
- New Paper Details the First National Measures of Cycling Infrastructure Comfort and Safety
- Wealthy, educated, and… non-millennial? New paper explores variable patterns of distributional inequity in 31 Canadian cities
- Bikeshare programs spur changes in physical activity
SEPTEMBER 12 | 2022
- CANUE Expert Webinar: Air Pollution, Electric Vehicles and Health
- NCCEH Healthy Built Environment Forum Webinar
- New Report Shows Health Effects of Low Concentrations of Air Pollution
- Analysis of Geographic and Environmental Factors and Their Association with Cutaneous Melanoma Incidence in Canada
- Examining the state, quality and strength of the evidence in research on built environments and physical activity among adults: An overview of reviews from high income countries
JULY 27 | 2022
- HealthyPlan.City Maps Urban Heat Islands
- ‘Look after each other’: U of T researcher on the threat posed to cities by extreme heat – and how to respond
- The Narwhal: The fight to crack down on air pollution from Toronto’s traffic has stalled
- Global News: Heat wave could ‘cripple’ emergency services already in crisis
- Health Checks During Extreme Heat Events
- NCCEH Webinar
- Learn What CanPath Has to Offer Researchers
JUNE 16 | 2022
- CANUE and UNICEF Canada Event: Recording Healthy Communities for Canadian Children
- CANUE Expert Webinar Recording: The Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution
- New CANUE Data Linkage with Population Data BC
- Positive Zero Transport Futures Website Launched
- Ambient Air Pollution and Dysanapsis: Associations with Lung Function and COPD in the CanCOLD Study
- Air Quality, Climate Change and Mental Health
APRIL 28 | 2022
- CANUE and UNICEF Canada Event
- CANUE Expert Webinar: The Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution
- CanPath Webinar | Trainee Research: Using Population Cohorts to Enable Early Cancer Detection
- Healthier Cities – One Neighbourhood at a Time
- CANUE Expert Webinar Recording | Community Wellbeing: How to Build Communities that Support Physical, Mental, Environmental and Social Wellbeing
- Webinar Recording – The Way Forward: Getting Mobility to Net Zero
- New Data Available
- CAPE report on traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) health impacts
MARCH 18 | 2022
- Changes at CANUE
- CANUE Expert Webinar: Community Wellbeing – How to Build Communities that Support Physical, Mental, Environmental and Social Wellbeing
- CANUE Expert Webinar Recording: PM 2.5: What it Is and Why it Matters
- CANPath Webinar: COVID-19 Antibody Study Results
- Funding Opportunity: Data Analysis Using Existing Databases and Cohorts
- MSc and PhD opportunities in ambient air quality and sustainable transportation systems
- Motivate Canada’s 2022 Virtual ViaYOUTH Summit
- Rethinking walkability and developing a conceptual definition of active living environments to guide research and practice
- Neighborhood environmental exposures and incidence of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
FEBRUARY 16 | 2022
- In Memoriam: Johan Feddema
- CANUE Expert Webinar: PM 2.5: What it Is and Why it Matters
- CANUE Expert Webinar Recording: Pathways Between Transportation and Health
- New tools to support healthier and more equitable built environments need your input!
- Funding Opportunity: Data Analysis Using Existing Databases and Cohorts
- New Data Available: Air Pollution Index
- Analysis of community deaths during the catastrophic 2021 heat dome
- Global fine-scale changes in ambient NO2 during COVID-19 lockdowns
JANUARY 14 | 2021
- Scientific Director Dr. Jeff Brook presented at “TEDxUofT: Momentum”
- CANUE Expert Webinar: Pathways Between Transportation and Health
- Positive Zero Transport Futures living lab aims to decarbonize transportation
- Job Opportunity: Regional Project Coordinator
- Funding Opportunity: Data Analysis Using Existing Databases and Cohorts
- Increased urban greenness associated with improved mental health among middle-aged and older adults of the CLSA
- Quantifying “compactness” and “sprawl” with bayesian multivariate spatial factor analysis
- Associations between neighbourhood built characteristics and sedentary behaviours among Canadian men and women
DECEMBER | 2021
- CANUE Expert Webinar: Pathways Between Transportation and Health
- Study links green space to healthier pregnancies
- Study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally
DECEMBER | 2021
- CANUE Expert Webinar: Pathways Between Transportation and Health
- Study links green space to healthier pregnancies
- Study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally
NOVEMBER 26 | 2021
- HealthyDesign.City wants to share your success stories!
- CIHR WebinaR: Accessing and Using Healthy Cities Data
- CANUE Expert Webinar Recording: Greenness, Public Health and Adapting to Climate Change
- New Data Available
- CANUE researchers awarded Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering
- CANUE Child Health Team Lead Named Top 40 Under 40
- New Publication: Research needs to better integrate sex and gender in contextual measures to inform interventions
- Eco-friendly lawn care can benefit health and climate
OCTOBER 28 | 2021
- Webinar: Greenness, Public Health and Adapting to Climate Change
- NCCEH Webinar Recording: Mobilizing Environmental Data to Build Healthier Cities for All
- New research: time in nature promotes childhood development
- Most Canadians exposed to air pollution above WHO guidelines
- Is it time to rethink our love affair with green lawns?
- Help the CHILD Cohort Study Win a National Competition
SEPTEMBER 24 | 2021
- Webinar: Extreme Heat, Forest Fires and the Role of the Built Environment
- Webinar: Mobilizing Environmental Data to Build Healthier Cities for All
- Opportunities: Tenure stream faculty positions
- Opportunity: Post doctoral fellowship at Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- PhD Opportunity at Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RIMUHC)
AUGUST 20 | 2021
- Webinar: Extreme Heat, Forest Fires and the Role of the Built Environment
- Be champion for the Healthy Built Environment Discussion Forum
- Opportunity: Senior Scientist | Environmental Health
SUMMER | 2021
- CANUE authors cited in Canadian Institute for Climate Choices Report
- Help craft our new Strategic Plan
- Post Doctoral Fellowship opportunities
- New data available
MAY 31 | 2021
- CANUE Annual General Meeting – Videos Available
- Canadian Cancer Society/CIHR Action Grant Opportunity
- New data available
- Welcome Natalia Calijorne
APRIL 19 | 2021
- CANUE Annual General Meeting – Program
- CANUE Annual General Meeting – Pre-Meeting Survey
- Environment + Health : Data 101 Series: Seminar #4
MARCH 30 | 2021
- CANUE data in over 60 peer-reviewed publications
- Environment + Health : Data 101 Series: Seminar #3
- Welcome Allan McKee – Communication Coordinator
FEBRUARY 24 | 2021
JANUARY 25 | 2021
- Call for Annual General Meeting
- Environment + Health : Data 101 Series: Seminar #1
- Funded graduate student opportunity