The Centre for Environmental Health Equity supports communities through creative research that translates knowledge into action for more equitable and just environments.
Our vision is an environment where all people have equal opportunity to enjoy healthy, vibrant communities, no matter where they live.
Student Research
Researcher in Focus
Cheryl Teelucksingh, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Ryerson University





the environment is associated with “nature”. However, this mindset may be a barrier to bridging with other sorts of progressive movements. In particular, as our
Having nurtured a burgeoning passion for growing, preparing and sharing food in recent years, (while also feeling the tension between living on a meagre income but benefitting from a position of privilege based on my education and skin colour), colleagues, friends and family should be unsurprised that my graduate studies prompted me to question the intersection of local food production, nutritional health, and food insecurity.
By Julie Rempel
or environment and health, you may be interested in this opportunity to write and share your ideas through the EcoHealth Journal. In a new proposed section called "Dialogues", students will have an opportunity to share brief articles and commentaries on a particular topic of interest . The write-up will then be responded to by other EcoHealth professionals and hopefully spark some lively and interesting discussion. But they want to hear from you by December 1st!
after 40 years in journalism, including 20-something years publishing a weekly business newspaper I co-founded, then 6 years on Vancouver City Council, I wrote a book about urban food systems. One reason is that I’ve always been passionate about growing food in my own garden, but a bigger reason is I’ve become obsessed with the positive benefits and urgent importance of bringing more local, fresh, affordable food into our lives.







