BC Environmental and Occupational
Health Research Network
Conference Travel Bursary Program
Description:
As part of its mandate to develop research capacity, BCEOHRN offers its membership a
Conference Travel Bursary program. Recipients are those who are actively engaged in
environmental and occupational health research, and who will be presenting their environmental
and occupational health research at a conference. Total funds available in this program are
capped and may be exhausted before the end of the calendar year, depending on member
demand.
The maximum funding is as follows:
$1,000 for conferences in Canada
$1,500 for conferences outside of Canada
Conditions:
Applicants must be BCEOHRN members (and have been for a minimum of 6 months prior to
application);
Members may apply for one travel bursary per year; applicants who have not previously had
a bursary will be considered first;
Applicants must demonstrate that they are actively engaged in environmental and
occupational health research;
Applicants must reside, work or attend a post-secondary institution in British Columbia.
Applicants must be presenting or displaying a poster at the conference; a copy of the
conference letter of acceptance and a copy of the abstract are required;
Preference will be given to junior researchers, being defined as those in their first five
years in academia, and graduate students located in BC;
Allowable expenses under this bursary are conference registration, accommodation, meals
and transportation. Funds will be reimbursed after the conference, and only upon submission
of original receipts and (if applicable) airline boarding passes;
Applications must be received in advance of the conference;
As Conference Travel Bursary funds are limited, please ensure that your
university/organization is unable to provide support prior to applying to BCEOHRN.
Submission Information:
Deadlines are: January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1.
Applications should be sent via email to:
Pat Atherton
Executive Director, BCEOHRN
patherton@bceohrn.ca
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BCEOHRN
Conference Travel Bursary Application Form
Annual Competition Deadlines:
January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1
1. Personal Information
a) Applicants may be graduate students, research associates, faculty members, community-
based researchers, etc.
Name: Jeff Masuda
Are you a student? yes no
If yes, please select level: Masters PhD Post-doctoral Fellow
Discipline of Study: Environmental/Health geography; environmental health promotion
Completion date (or anticipated): August 2008
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Department: Centre for Population Health Promotion Research
Institution: UBC
Phone: (604) 822-9943
Email: jeff.masuda@cnehse.ca
Supervisor / Departmental Head, and phone #: Jim Frankish (604) 822-
b) Academic / Training Background:
Degree/ Year
Area / Specialty Institution / Organization
Certificate received
PhD Human Geography University of Alberta 2005
MSc Health Promotion Studies University of Alberta 2001
BSc Zoology University of Alberta 1996
c) Provide a brief summary of your research experience. Please include a list of grant
submissions, and grants and awards held in the past five years, and previous conference
participation, if any.
My research is broadly concerned with the interrogation of inequities in systems that govern
environmental risk and their consequences for individual and community health and wellbeing.
This research draws on critically informed participatory methodologies that are aimed at throwing
new theoretical light on health promotion-informed strategies to address environmental injustices
at the community level. In the past three years, I have connected my dissertation research in risk
communication, environmental sustainability, and community engagement to exciting new areas
of research that are supported by a strongly interdisciplinary cadre of senior level colleagues from
several universities across Canada. These include several overlapping studies I am pursuing as
PI or co-PI focused on environment and health inequities in land use decision-making, promoting
health inner city environments, providing online health promotion to at-risk youth with
environmental allergies and asthma, and understanding prenatal risk communication as a
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determinant of health in low-income women. Through these and other studies I am beginning to
weave together a unified research program on environmental health promotion in ‘vulnerable
places and populations’.
My grants over the past five years are listed below.
Research Grants as Principal Investigator/Co-principal Investigator
Year Grant Value
2007- ‘Health Promoting Inner City Environments: A participatory research approach $10,000
2008 to reducing environment and health inequities and improving community health in
Vancouver (Co-PI, BC Environmental and Occupational Health
Research Network Research Capacity Development Grant)
2007- Assessing the support needs of parents of asthmatic children in Alberta (Co-PI, $25,000
2008 Lung Association – Alberta and NWT Angela Jone Memorial
Clinical Research Award 2007)
2006 - Making Sense of Spatial Inequities in Risk and Health: The Politics of Place in $6861
2007 Land-Use Decisions in Hamilton, Ontario (PI, McMaster University Arts
Research Board, Standard Research Grant)
2006 - Tracing environmental inequities in Canada: Towards an environmental health $8000
2007 promotion perspective (PI, HCTP Interdisciplinary Capacity
Enhancement Grant)
2007 Environment, Risk, and Vulnerability: Towards a Canadian Agenda for $20,000 (IPPH);
Health and Social Equity. (Co-PI, CIHR Institute of Population Health $10,000 (IGH)
Research Development and Knowledge Exchange Initiative;
Institute of Gender and Health)
2003 - Understanding Industrial Development in Alberta’s Rural Communities. (Co- $21,091
2004 PI, Canadian Agricultural Rural Communities Initiative)
TOTAL $100,952
Research Grants as Co-investigator
Year Grant Value
2008- Negotiating pre-natal health risks across socioeconomic, geographic and $10,000
2009 environmental contexts (University of Ottawa research development
grant)
2007 - Building Continuity of Support for Allergic Children with Asthma and/or $80,000
2009 Anaphylaxis and their Families (Allergen NCE – 2007 competition)
2007 - Successful Models of Knowledge Translation and Peer Support to Build Capacity $100,000
2009 for Children with Asthma and Life Threatening Allergies in Rural and Urban
Communities (Allergen NCE – 2006 competition)
TOTAL $190,000
Grants Submitted or In Preparation
Year Grant and Role Value
2008- Assessing and Addressing Human Health in Vulnerable Environments: A $5000 (LOI)
2015 Strategic Interdisciplinary Training Program (Co-I, CIHR Strategic $1,800,000 (Full
Training in Interdisciplinary Health Research Training Program, LOI Proposal
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submitted March 2008)
2008- Integrating community capacity for environmental health promotion in the $25,000
2009 neighbourhood of Parkdale (Co-PI; Centre for Urban Health Initiative
Seed Grant, submitted March 2008)
2008- Improving Quality of Life for Adolescents with Asthma and Allergies and Their $289,900
2010 Parents Through Online Social Support (Co-I, CIHR Operating Grant,
rated fundable, re-submitted Feb, 2008)
2008- Building capacity for inner city environmental health (Co-PI, BC Medical $5000
2009 Services Foundation Research Development Grant, submitting April
2008)
2008- Building Continuity of Support for Children with Allergies and/or Asthma and $99,222
2011 their Families in Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Rural Communities (Co-
PI, Alberta Centre for Child, Family, and Community Research
Investigator Driven Award, LOI approved, submitted April 2008)
TOTAL $2,224,122
2. Conference Information:
Include the conference website address AND complete this section.
Conference Name: Canadian Public Health Association
Conference website URL: http://www.cpha.ca/en/conferences/cphaconf.aspx
Conference Registration Contact (name and contact information, including website): Marie
LaPlante (conference@cpha.ca; www.cpha.ca)
Brief description of the conference: 2008 theme: Reducing Health Inequalities Through
Evidence and Action
Conference Date(s): June 1 – 4, 2008
Conference Location: Halifax, NS
Award amount for which you are eligible (check one):
$1,000 for conferences in Canada
$1,500 for conferences outside of Canada
Is your presentation a poster or paper?
Paper/Workshop
Briefly describe how attendance at this conference relates to development of your current or
upcoming research.
I have organized this workshop, with partners including the Canadian Network on Environment,
Health, and Social Equity; The National Collaborating Centre on Environmental Health; the
National Collaborating Centre on Determinants of Health; the Canadian Community of Practice
on Ecosystem Health; the BC Ministry of Health; and the Canadian Environmental Law Network.
As the workshop organizer, I will be presenting my vision for a national research agenda focused
on intersectoral approaches to environmental health justice in Canada. As part of this
presentation, I will be using some of the results of my BCEOHRN research development grant
(Healthy Inner City Environment) to illustrate how my own research contributes to this agenda.
Have you applied to your institution for funding to attend this conference?
No
Yes
If Yes, please indicate the amount you expect to receive from your institution: All accommodation
expenses (approx. $500)
3. Attachments:
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Include with your application:
A 250 word abstract describing your presentation (or the abstract you used for the conference
submission;
See Appendix A
The conference letter of acceptance;
See Appendix B
If you are a student, please ask your supervisor to provide a note of support for your
application which can be sent as a separate email. This note must acknowledge that you
have made every attempt to secure funding from other sources at your institution.
4. Budget Estimates:
Use the following UNBC* policy amounts to calculate your budget estimate:
Meals per day: Breakfast $12; Lunch $15; Dinner $22; Incidentals $5
Mileage: .38/KM
Travel (air or other, economy class) $ 874.55
Mileage $
Accommodation (BC Government rate where available) $ 716
Food $ 200
Registration Fees, as outlined on the conference website $ 335
Other:
Specify: ________________________________ $
Total: $ 2125.55
5. Final Reporting:
Within two months of attending the conference, provide a short summary of the value you
gained from attending the conference. Note that your comments may be used for BCEOHRN
reporting purposes.
* As BCEOHRN’s financial secretariat, UNBC’s travel policy prevails.
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Appendix A
Environmental Justice in Canada? Identifying a role for public health research and practice
SPONSORS
Jeff Masuda, Canadian Network on Environment, Health, and Social Equity
Trevor Hancock, BC Ministry of Health
Ray Copes, National Collaborating Centre on Environmental Health
Lesley Poirier, National Collaborating Centre on Determinants of Health
Margot Parkes, Communities of Practice in Ecosystem Health (TBC)
Theresa McClenaghan, Canadian Environmental Law Association
Language: English
Stream: Effecting Systems Change
GOAL
The goal of this workshop is to explore the uses and utility of environmental justice as a public health
research, planning, and community action framework for promoting healthy environments.
In recent years, the notion of environmental justice has gained currency in global academic, activist, and
popular discourse. Claims of environmental injustice have been invoked to explain a number of contentious
public health issues ranging across hazards in air, soil, water; to inappropriate natural resource
development; to the local impacts of global climate change.
In general terms, environmental injustice hinges on the premise that environmentally mediated health
threats are inequitably produced and distributed as a consequence of systemic discrimination against
socially and culturally dispossessed populations. Such discrimination has a long history in Canada, with
cases documented in aboriginal, low-income, inner city, and immigrant communities, as well as on many
children, women, and the elderly.
While environmental justice has been taking root at the grassroots level as a way of framing community
activism, it has received less attention in Canadian public health research, policy, and practice. To-date
there has been little scrutiny of the core principles if environmental justice as they apply across national
contexts, and at local-to-global scales.
The successful diffusion of environmental justice in public health beyond its origins in the context of U.S.
civil rights will be contingent upon whether it can be usefully adapted and applied to other sociopolitical
and cultural contexts. Addressing environmental injustices will require considerable forethought and
cooperation among scholars, policymakers, practitioners and activists in order to identify and eliminate
discriminatory policies and practices and effect systems change.
Participants of this workshop explore the utility of environmental justice as a tool for promoting reducing
health inequities by identifying strategies to employ environmental justice frameworks to policies and
practice in urban planning, public health, and related sectors. Discussion will be stimulated with examples
of best practices and key challenges provided by public health researchers, policy-makers, practitioners,
and advocates working on environmental justice issues across Canada and globally.
OBJECTIVES
Participants at this workshop will include researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, and advocates working
in the fields of public health, urban planning and policy, environmental law, ecosystem health, population
health, and environmental health. The overarching aim is to contribute to the coordinated development of a
public health environmental justice strategy in Canada. The workshop objectives include:
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1) To discuss applications of environmental justice frameworks at local, national, and international
levels;
2) To share current best practices and challenges faced by public health researchers, policymakers,
and practitioners who are engaged with environmental justice issues in Canadian and international
contexts;
3) To identify key components and action strategies for the development of a Canadian
environmental justice framework, to feed into efforts to convene a National Conference on
Promoting Environmental Justice in Canada (as proposed by the workshop organizers)
HOSTS
Canadian Network on Environment, Health, and Social Equity (www.cnehse.ca). For the past year, the
newly established CNEHSE has been building partnerships leading toward a National Conference on
Reducing Environmental Inequity in Canada. As part of these efforts, CNEHSE is undertaking a series of
workshops in 2008 in order consult widely with researchers, policymakers, and community organizations
from health, environmental, and economic sectors on key issues and debates surrounding the development
of a more coordinated approach to addressing environmental injustices in Canadian communities. The
ICUH conference, focused this year on knowledge integration, provides a great opportunity to demonstrate
how research is being to advance environmental justice agendas in urban planning, community
development, and public health at all levels from local to global. We envision the workshop will foster
lively debate and raise important considerations for participants to inform interdisciplinary work in the area
of environmental health. The workshop outputs will be sent to all participants along with a list of key
Canadian published scholarly and grey literature assembled by the organizers.
Canadian Community of Practice in Ecosystem Approaches to Health (www.copeh-canada.org)
The Canadian Community of Practice in Ecosystem Approaches to Health (COPEH-Can), is a pan-
Canadian project based with a team of researchers from three universities (University of Guelph, University
of British Columbia, Université du Québec à Montréal) with initial support provided by Canada’s
International Development Research Center. Ecosystem Approaches to Health (Ecohealth) have developed
in response to recognition that health and wellbeing are embedded within ecosystems. Ecohealth initiatives
are characterised by integrated approaches to health and environment issues, where priority is given to
participatory and interdisciplinary research that is conscious of equity and has frequent overlaps with the
concerns and priorities of the emerging field of environmental justice. Research in Ecohealth brings
together researchers in natural sciences, health sciences, social sciences, traditional knowledge and beyond,
who work in direct collaboration with interested parties, political decision makers and stakeholders. Such
approaches have been applied in Canada and internationally to address complex health problems – in
particular those arising in urban and peri-urban environments where health, environment and justice
concerns are intensified. This workshop provides an valuable forum for learning and exchange between
members of the COPEH-Can and those who are ensuring that the lessons and insights from work in
environmental justice can also inform how we understand and respond to urban health concerns.
Canadian Environmental Law Association
AGENDA AND PARTICIPATORY PROCESS
Time Speakers Item Details
00:00 – Jeff Masuda Focus Setting Working definitions and contested terrain
00:05 Trevor Hancock in environmental justice
Ray Copes Priority populations and issues in Canada
Lesley Poirier Key strategies and research approaches
o community-based participatory
research, spatial analysis and
population health, health
promotion, community
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mobilization, policy
development, regulation and
mitigation
Opportunities/Barriers for implementation
political will, interdisciplinary
collaboration, multi-method research
approaches
00:05 – Tim Lambert Panel Using case study examples, panelists working
00:45 Theresa Presentations on environmental justice from different
McClenaghan/Kaitlyn sectors will respond to one or more of the
Mitchell issues/questions/themes in the context of their
Others? own work in areas such as
Public health research on environmental
justice
Aboriginal environmental justice
Gentrification and inner city health
Legal perspectives on environmental justice
00:45 – All Q&A
01:00
01:00 – All Break out Participants will self-select into four break-out
01:45 tables facilitated by the panelists to deliberate
on key components and action strategies
required to prioritize issues, develop
strategies, and promote intersectoral action for
urban health research and policy development
for each topic area.
01:45 – All Reporting back Each break-out table will report back
02:00 summaries of discussion. Workshop
organizers will collect email addresses to send
workshop proceedings to all participants and
through partner networks
AV AND ROOM REQUIREMENTS
One Data Projector
Computer with internet connection for connecting panelist(s) through Skype
3-5 Flipcharts
3-5 Breakout tables (seating for 8 participants each)
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PANELISTS
Please have copies of your powerpoint slides and speaking notes available to Jeff on or before June 1 st.
These will be included in an email workshop summary to be sent to participants following the
conference
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Appendix B
Dear Mr. Masuda:
I am confirming that your abstract A08-290 has been accepted as a
workshop. It is scheduled for the Tuesday morning (that is June 3rd,
10:30 - 12:00).
If you should have any other questions, please do not hesitate to
contact me.
Regards,
Marie
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Masuda [mailto:jeff.masuda@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jeff
Masuda
Sent: April 28, 2008 3:27 PM
To: CPHA Conference Dept
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM CPHA
Dear Marie,
I have not yet received written confirmation on the acceptance of my
workshop titled: Environmental Justice in Canada? Identifying a role for
public health research and practice. I received a telephone call two
weeks ago indicating it had been accepted.
Thank you,
Jeff Masuda
CPHA Conference Dept wrote:
> Dear Colleague:
>
> It has come to our attention that some abstract submitters have not
> been receiving all of the correspondence related to the 2008 CPHA
> Annual Conference. We apologize and are working to rectify the
> situation. Our IT staff have indicated that spam filters or internal
> "junk mail" filters have been compromising our communications systems
> and we are utilizing a different methodology to send this email.
>
> If you have not yet received a notice regarding the status of your
> submitted abstract, please contact us as soon as possible so that we
> confirm whether or not your abstract has been accepted and for when it
> has been scheduled. Since we can communicate only with the primary
> presenter, it is your responsibility to inform any colleagues with
> whom you may have co-submitted the abstract.
>
> Thank you for your understanding and patience. Please do not hesitate
> to contact us if you have any further questions.
>
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> Sincerely,
>
> Marie
>
> */
> ____________________________________________
> Marie Laplante
> /*/Conference Assistant, Conference Department / //Adjointe, Service
> des conférences //Canadian Public Health Association / Association
> canadienne de santé publique/
>
> , 1565 Carling Ave., Suite 400, Ottawa, ON K1Z 8R1
> ( 613-725-3769 Ext. 126
> 6 613-725-9826
> mlaplante@cpha.ca / www.cpha.ca
>
>
--
Jeffrey R. Masuda, CD, PhD
Canadian Network on Environment, Health, and Social Equity
Postdoctoral Fellow
Partners in Community Health Research, University of British Columbia
AND Health Care, Technology & Place, University of Toronto
Centre for Population Health Promotion Research University of British
Columbia
2206 East Mall Room 413
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z3
Tel: 604-822-9943
Cell: 778-997-4874
Fax: 604-822-9210
jeff.masuda@cnehse.ca
Dear Colleague:
It has come to our attention that some abstract submitters have not been receiving
all of the correspondence related to the 2008 CPHA Annual Conference. We apologize
and are working to rectify the situation. Our IT staff have indicated that spam filters
or internal "junk mail" filters have been compromising our communications systems
and we are utilizing a different methodology to send this email.
If you have not yet received a notice regarding the status of your submitted abstract,
please contact us as soon as possible so that we confirm whether or not your
abstract has been accepted and for when it has been scheduled. Since we can
communicate only with the primary presenter, it is your responsibility to inform any
colleagues with whom you may have co-submitted the abstract.
Thank you for your understanding and patience. Please do not hesitate to contact us
if you have any further questions.
Sincerely,
Marie
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____________________________________________
Marie Laplante
Conference Assistant, Conference Department / Adjointe, Service des conférences
Canadian Public Health Association / Association canadienne de santé publique
1565 Carling Ave., Suite 400, Ottawa, ON K1Z 8R1
613-725-3769 Ext. 126
613-725-9826
mlaplante@cpha.ca / www.cpha.ca
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