Welcome to our annual 9I制作厂免费 School of Population and Global Health (SPGH) Research and Public Health Day 2025!
Research and Public Health Day is once again bringing the SPGH community together for a school-wide event that showcases students' research projects and practicum experiences through presentations and posters, complemented by inspiring keynote addresses.听
The event is taking place on Friday, February 14 2025, at New Residence Hall, 3625 Park Ave, Montreal, Quebec H2X 3P8, from 8:30am - 5:00pm.
SPGH students will participate in oral and poster presentations. MSc in Public Health (MScPH) students will also display their practicum project posters, with five students selected to participate in the 3-minute mini-oral presentation competition.听Awards will be handed out for best presentations, posters, and mini-orals.
Keynote Speakers:
- Dr. Jura Augustinavicius, Assistant Professor, Associate Director of the Centre on Climate Change and Health, School of Population and Global Health, 9I制作厂免费
- Dr. Ingrid Waldron, Professor, HOPE Chair in Peace and Health in the Global Peace and Social Justice Program, McMaster University
Dr. Lesley Fellows, Vice-Principal (Health Affairs) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, will provide opening remarks.
Dr. Eduardo Franco, Interim Director of the School of Population and Global Health, will deliver the concluding remarks.
Mr. Geoff Ingram, MScPH student, will be the Research and Public Health Day host, guiding us through the event.
More information to follow.
We look forward to welcoming you to our second SPGH Research Day & Public Health Day!
For any questions,听contact us at:
Divine-Favour Ofili (Research Day Co-Chair):听divine-favour.ofili [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Audrey Mitchell (Research Day Co-Chair): audrey.mitchell [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Yan Nasr (MScPH Practicum Administrator): practicum.eboh [at] mcgill.ca
Dr. Am茅lie Quesnel-Vall茅e (Chair of the Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy, Research & Public Health Day Chair):听amelie.quesnelvallee [at] mcgill.ca
For those interested in attending, please fill out the registration form below (Deadline to register: February 6, 2025):
Agenda
| Time | Item | Speaker |
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| 8:30AM | Registration & Poster Set-up / Light Breakfast | |
| 9:00AM | Introductory Remarks |
Dr. Lesley Fellows,听Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Land Acknowledgments: Hannah Doyle, EBOSS President, MScPH student |
| 9:15AM | Research Day Oral Presentations Session 1 |
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| 10:00AM | Break | 听 |
| 10:15AM | Research Day Oral Presentation Session 2 |
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| 11:00AM | Keynote Speaker #1 | Dr. Jura Augustinavicius |
| 12:00PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00PM | Student Poster Gallery |
SPGH students will present their research posters, MScPH students will present their practicum project posters. |
| 2:30PM | 3-minute mini-oral student presentations and live Q&A |
MScPH student presenters: Elizabeth Baker-Sullivan, Eva Jensen, Chanelle Nadou Lawson-Lartego, Hannah Doyle, Geoff Ingram Moderator: Jordan Leeson, MScPH student |
| 3:30PM | Keynote Speaker #2 | Dr. Ingrid Waldron |
| 4:30PM |
Announcement of Prize Winners and Concluding Remarks |
Dr. Eduardo Franco, Interim Director of the School of Population and Global Health |
Special thanks to:
Judges for 3-minute mini-orals: Dr. Joanna-Trees Merckx, MScPH Practicum Academic Lead and Assistant Professor, and Dr. Joseph Cox, Professor; School of Population and Global Health, 9I制作厂免费
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About our Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Jura Augustinavicius
Dr. Jura Augustinavicius is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy at the School of Population and Global Health at 9I制作厂免费 and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. At 9I制作厂免费 she is an Associate Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Health and a member of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health. Dr. Augustinavicius regularly works with governments, NGOs, and UN agencies on mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings and in the context of climate change. She currently leads several climate change and mental health focused research projects that bring together teams with interdisciplinary and intersectoral expertise.
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Dr. Ingrid Waldron
Dr. Ingrid Waldron is Professor and HOPE Chair in Peace and Health in the Global Peace and Social Justice Program in the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University. Her research focuses on environmental and climate justice in Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities, mental illness and dementia in Black communities, and COVID-19 in Black and South Asian communities. Ingrid is the author of the book There鈥檚 Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities, which was turned into a 2020 Netflix documentary of the same name and was co-produced by Waldron, actor Elliot Page, and Ian Daniel. She is the founder and Director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities and Community Health Project (The ENRICH Project) and helped develop the federal private members bill a National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice (Bill C-226). Bill C-226 was approved at Senate on June 13, 2024, and given royal assent on June 20, 2024, becoming the first environmental justice law in Canada. Dr. Waldron鈥檚 book entitled From the Enlightenment to Black Lives Matter: The Impact of Racial Trauma on Mental Health in Black Communities, was published on November 25, 2024. It traces experiences of racial trauma in Black communities in Canada, the US and the UK from the colonial era to the present.
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