After completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the UBC Centre for Population Health Promotion Research, Dr. Jeff Masuda has recently taken a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of Manitoba. Jeff is also lead organizer of the Canadian Network on Environment, Health, and Social Equity (www.cnehse.ca), an organization whose main goal is to build national collaborations to advance knowledge and build community capacity to promote environmental health equity in Canada. Jeff’s PhD work has involved examining the politics of risk communication and public engagement in rural-urban interface communities facing agricultural restructuring and industrial development. In more recent work, he has initiated the creation of a multi-site research team that is using participatory action research to develop social networking programs for children with asthma and anaphylaxis. The aim of this research is to enable effective and sustainable peer support for socially and geographically isolated populations who often experience social stigma and face barriers to receiving effective health education programming. Efforts to disseminate this work have recently been facilitated with BCRRHRN working group initiative funding, which has enabled Jeff’s research team to come together for a intense weekend writing workshop to consider the rural ramifications of recently completed pilot interventions within this program of research funded by Allergen NCE and CIHR. Subsequent iterations of this research are focused on developing culturally appropriate support interventions that will ultimately connect children and their families across several Aboriginal communities in Canada.
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After completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the UBC Centre for Population Health Promotion Research, Dr. Jeff Masuda has recently taken a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of Manitoba. Jeff is also lead organizer of the Canadian Network on Environment, Health, and Social Equity (www.cnehse.ca), an organization whose main goal is to build national collaborations to advance knowledge and build community capacity to promote environmental health equity in Canada. Jeff’s PhD work has involved examining the politics of risk communication and public engagement in rural-urban interface communities facing agricultural restructuring and industrial development. In more recent work, he has initiated the creation of a multi-site research team that is using participatory action research to develop social networking programs for children with asthma and anaphylaxis. The aim of this research is to enable effective and sustainable peer support for socially and geographically isolated populations who often experience social stigma and face barriers to receiving effective health education programming. Efforts to disseminate this work have recently been facilitated with BCRRHRN working group initiative funding, which has enabled Jeff’s research team to come together for a intense weekend writing workshop to consider the rural ramifications of recently completed pilot interventions within this program of research funded by Allergen NCE and CIHR. Subsequent iterations of this research are focused on developing culturally appropriate support interventions that will ultimately connect children and their families across several Aboriginal communities in Canada.
After completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the UBC Centre for Population Health Promotion Research, Dr. Jeff Masuda has recently taken a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of Manitoba. Jeff is also lead organizer of the Canadian Network on Environment, Health, and Social Equity (www.cnehse.ca), an organization whose main goal is to build national collaborations to advance knowledge and build community capacity to promote environmental health equity in Canada. Jeff’s PhD work has involved examining the politics of risk communication and public engagement in rural-urban interface communities facing agricultural restructuring and industrial development. In more recent work, he has initiated the creation of a multi-site research team that is using participatory action research to develop social networking programs for children with asthma and anaphylaxis. The aim of this research is to enable effective and sustainable peer support for socially and geographically isolated populations who often experience social stigma and face barriers to receiving effective health education programming. Efforts to disseminate this work have recently been facilitated with BCRRHRN working group initiative funding, which has enabled Jeff’s research team to come together for a intense weekend writing workshop to consider the rural ramifications of recently completed pilot interventions within this program of research funded by Allergen NCE and CIHR. Subsequent iterations of this research are focused on developing culturally appropriate support interventions that will ultimately connect children and their families across several Aboriginal communities in Canada.
