Health and the environment are on the top of Canadian's priority. These two are strongly related: the challenges we are facing to insure healthy living conditions for people and animals and a healthy environment are highly complex and cannot be addressed by one scientific domain alone.
In response to this complexity, ecosystem approaches to health (called EcoHealth for short) have been developed by scientists and practitioners from the social, natural and health fields in Canada and abroad. Ecohealth has already led to many successful research projects and interventions and there is now a need for Canadian researchers and practitioners to come together and share their experience and expertise.
To address this need, three major Canadian Universities - University of British Columbia, University of Guelph, Université du Québec à Montréal - have come together and created a "Canadian community of practice in ecosystem approaches to health (CoPEH-Can)" with the financial support of the International Development Research Center (IDRC). This Community of practice aims at creating a forum for exchange and collaboration between a network of researchers and practitioners from a broad range of disciplines who share an interest with Ecohealth approaches.
By fostering collaboration, the CoPEH-Can hopes to consolidate and extend the Ecohealth approach and to ensure that a new generation of scientists and practitioners will start their careers with the tools necessary to understand the complex interactions between health, social behaviour, and the environment. Scholarships were given to students throughout Canada to attend an 11-day, first annual course on Ecosystem approaches to health hosted at UBC from August 6th to 15th. Professionals from relevant fields were also invited to attend the course.
At the end of this short course the CoPEH-Can held an official launch that featured a general a presentation of the CoPEH-Can and of its activities. The ceremony was held on the 15th of August at the UBC farm.
For more information go to http://www.copeh-canada.org/index_en.php
In response to this complexity, ecosystem approaches to health (called EcoHealth for short) have been developed by scientists and practitioners from the social, natural and health fields in Canada and abroad. Ecohealth has already led to many successful research projects and interventions and there is now a need for Canadian researchers and practitioners to come together and share their experience and expertise.
To address this need, three major Canadian Universities - University of British Columbia, University of Guelph, Université du Québec à Montréal - have come together and created a "Canadian community of practice in ecosystem approaches to health (CoPEH-Can)" with the financial support of the International Development Research Center (IDRC). This Community of practice aims at creating a forum for exchange and collaboration between a network of researchers and practitioners from a broad range of disciplines who share an interest with Ecohealth approaches.
By fostering collaboration, the CoPEH-Can hopes to consolidate and extend the Ecohealth approach and to ensure that a new generation of scientists and practitioners will start their careers with the tools necessary to understand the complex interactions between health, social behaviour, and the environment. Scholarships were given to students throughout Canada to attend an 11-day, first annual course on Ecosystem approaches to health hosted at UBC from August 6th to 15th. Professionals from relevant fields were also invited to attend the course.
At the end of this short course the CoPEH-Can held an official launch that featured a general a presentation of the CoPEH-Can and of its activities. The ceremony was held on the 15th of August at the UBC farm.
For more information go to http://www.copeh-canada.org/index_en.php
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