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Susan J. Elliott
Professor
Dean, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
Contact Information:
Phone: +1 519 888 4567 ext 31346
Office: Faculty of Applied Health Sciences BMH 3115
Email: elliotts@uwaterloo.ca
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Degrees:
| Ph.D. |
Geography (1992, McMaster University) |
| M.A. |
Geography (1987, McMaster University) |
| B.A. |
Urban & Environmental Studies/Sociology (1985, Brock University) |
Teaching Interests
Environment and health, health geography, environmental science, urban social geography and planning, research methods.
Research Interests
Environment and health, medical geography, global environment, urban social geography, philosophy and method.
Current Major Funding Sources
AllerGen NCE
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Selected Publications
- Gatrell, A.C. and Elliott, S.J. Geographies of Health, Second Edition. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
- Ben-Shoshan, M., Harrington, D., Godefroy, S., Joseph, L., Elliott, S.J., St-Pierre, Y., Fragapane, J., Soller, L. and Clarke, A. A population-based study on peanut, tree nut, fish, shell fish, and sesame allergy prevalence in Canada. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, (in press).
- Vine, M.M., Elliott, S.J. and Olaman, S. To disrupt and displace: placing domestic violence on the public health agenda. Critical Public Health, (in press).
- Fenton, N.E., Elliott, S.J., Cicutto, L., Clarke, A.E. and McPhee, E. Illustrating risk: anaphylaxis through the eyes of the food-allergic child. Risk Analysis, (in press).
- Mulligan, K., Vine, M.M., Schuster-Wallace, C. and Elliott, S.J. Sanitation as the Key to Global Health: Voices from the Field. Hamilton, Ontario, UNU-INWEH, 2010.
- Pouliou, T. and Elliott, S.J. Individual and socio-environmental determinants of obesity in urban Canada. Health and Place, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 2, 389-398.
- Elliott, S.J. and McClure, J. There’s just hope that no one’s health is at risk: resident’s reappraisal of a landfill siting. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2009, Vol. 52, No. 2, 237-255.
- Elliott, S.J. Environmental health. In Kitchen, R., Thrift N. (eds). International Dictionary in Geography, 2009, Vol. 13, pp. 528-534. Oxford: Elsevier.
- Pouliou, T. and Elliott, S.J. An exploratory spatial analysis of overweight and obesity in Canada. Preventive Medicine, 2009, Vol. 48, No. 4, 362-367.
- Harrington, D. and Elliott, S.J. Weighing the importance of neighbourhood: a multilevel exploration of the determinants of overweight and obesity. Social Science & Medicine, 2008, 68, 593-600.
- Elliott, S.J., Loeb, M., Eyles, J. and Harrington, D. Heeding the message: uptake of West Nile Virus messages. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2008, Vol. 99, No. 2, 217-224.
- Schuster-Wallace, C.J., Grover, V., Zafar, A., Confalonieri, U. and Elliott, S.J. Safe Water as the Key to Global Health. Hamilton, Ontario, UNU-INWEH, 2008.
