CALL CLOSED - Call for Applications: national training program in children's environmental health

August 20-24th, 2012 -  Vancouver
Application Deadline: April 15th  - 5pm CST
Note: Extended deadline. The program is no longer limited to urban settings and we welcome applicants from rural and remote areas of Canada.  

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  • Are you a Canadian researcher, community advocate or policy influencer invested in improving children’s environmental health?
  • Does your work include a focus on the wellbeing of lower-income or marginalized children and youth?
     
  • Are you interested in becoming part of a national network of knowledge leaders who support a greater focus on health equity in children’s environmental health?

The Centre for Environmental Health Equity (CEHE), in collaboration with the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) and the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA), is calling for applications to our one-week national collaborative training program in children’s environmental health. 

Program details 

Why a training program? While research and knowledge of children's environmental health is growing,  there is little examination of how problems become prioritized, what social and historical processes have led to present-day health problems, and what strategies are best suited to resolve them.  

Although serious environmental health risks to socioeconomically disadvantaged children have been documented, very little research prioritizes health equity or prioritizes the lived-experience of communities when gathering and analyzing information. 

Low-income communities may bring attention to their environmental health concerns but encounter institutional barriers to change. Similarly, academic and policy leaders often face barriers to collaborative approaches to address children’s environmental health inequities. 

The goal of our national training program is to provoke a systemic shift toward equitable approaches in research, policy and practice to improve children's environmental health.