LEA BERRANG FORD - Department of Geography, McGill University

LEA BERRANG FORD, PhDCURRICULUM VITAEAssistant Professor (Health Geography)Department of GeographyMcGill University805 Sherbrooke Street WestMontreal, QC, H3A 2K6, CanadaTel: +1 514-398-4944Fax: +1 514-398-7437Lea.BerrangFord@McGill.caSkills summary:• Eco-system health and environmental systems analysis• Spatial statistics, GIS, Remote Sensing, and Epidemiologic analysis• Quantitative/ statistical and epidemiologic analysis• Climate change and health expertise• Proven track record securing research grant funding• Experience in project management, study design, field work, supervision• Experience working in cross-cultural/ international contexts• Bilingual: English, FrenchCurrent positionAssistant Professor (2007-current)Department of GeographyMcGill UniversityAcademic QualificationsPhD Epidemiology (2006)Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Canada and the International LivestockResearch Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya (Graduate Fellow)Thesis, “Spatial and temporal analyses of sleeping sickness reemergence in SE Uganda, 1970-2003”MSc Environmental Change and Management (2001)Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, UK, with distinction.Thesis, “Public perceptions of climate change in the UK”BSc (Env) (Geography) (2000)Department of Geography, University of Guelph, Canada.Theses, “Land cover change and loggerhead shrike habitat in Ontario” & “Turbulence in meander bends inCherry Brook, UK”

LEA BERRANG FORDInuit communities in Nunavik, Quebec.Spatial and temporal epidemiology of sleeping sickness in SE UgandaDoctoral work on the spatial and temporal determinants of sleeping sickness in SEUganda, in association with the International Livestock Research Institute (Nairobi,Kenya) and University of Guelph (Canada).Understanding Norovirus transmission on Canada’s West Coast.Project scoping, study design, workshop facilitation, spatial mapping, anddevelopment of a strategic action plan for Norovirus transmission on the west coast -contractual work with the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), FWZI DivisionLivelihoods and Ecosystems International Workshop Series - CIDAWorkshop facilitation & development, with the Canadian International DevelopmentAgency (CIDA) and the University of Guelph.Public perceptions of climate change impacts on human health in the UK.Designed and implemented project, collected and analyzed data, and prepared reportfor survey-based project for completion of an MSc in Environmental Change andManagement, University of Oxford, UK.Water on Mars? Aerial photo interpretation of Martian fluvial featuresAerial photography interpretation assistance, in association with the University ofOxford Department of Geography and NASA.Watershed health and community management in the Hagan Creek-KennesWatershed, Sidney, BC.Research assistant, including watershed analyses, and community liaison for acommunity watershed project, in association with the Inst. of Ocean Sciences(Sidney, BC), and the Eco-research Chair of Environmental Law and Policy, U.Victoria.2002 – 20062004 – 200620052000 – 200120011998 – 1999Funding Grants and Academic Awards$4500 Strategic Seed Funding, Faculty of Science, McGill: “Science communicationstudent internship(s): climate change adaptation in developed nations” (2009-10)$142830 Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Research Grant (2009-2012). Title: Environmental change impacts on public health in Canada: anecosystem health approach$12500 CIHR Program Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Global HealthResearch, Research to Action in the Upper Amazon: Metals, nutrition and health ofindigenous people. Co-applicant (Principal Applicant: Dr. J. Webb) (2008)$6000 McGill Faculty of Science Excellence Fund: “Spatial Epidemiology and Health GISComputational Laboratory” (2008)$6000 McGill Faculty of Science Excellence Fund, Strengthening McGill-Africa ResearchCollaboration and Graduate Training (2008)Honour Jacques May Thesis Prize for top doctoral thesis in Medical Geography, AmericanAssociation of Geographers (2007)Honour 1 st place doctoral presentation, Ontario Veterinary College, U. of Guelph (2006)$20,000 Internat. Dev. Research Centre Canada, Doctoral Research Award (2004)$21,000 Nat. Science and Eng. Council of Canada PGS-B Graduate Award (2004)$5,000 Arthur D. Latornell Graduate Scholarship, U. of Guelph (2003)$1,000 Arthur D. Latornell Graduate Travel Grant, U. of Guelph (2003)$19,000 Nat. Science and Eng. Council of Canada PGS-A graduate award (2002)Honour University of Oxford, Degree with distinction (2001)Honour University of Guelph, Degree with distinction (2000)- 3 -

LEA BERRANG FORD$1,000 Arthur D. Latornell Travel Grant, U. of Guelph (1999)Honour Geography Alumni Scholarship, U. of Guelph (top Geographer in cohort) (1998)Teaching• NEW COURSE CREATED: Advanced Topics in Health Geography (GEOG 503),Department of Geography, McGill University, co-instructor, Winter 2009.• NEW COURSE CREATED: Global Health and Environmental Change (GEOG 403),Department of Geography, McGill University, Fall 2009.• Health Geography (GEOG 303, undergraduate course), Department of Geography, McGillUniversity, Winter 2008.• Introduction to Epidemiology (ENVR 680), co-instructor, Fall 2008.• Statistics and Spatial Analysis (GEOG 202), Department of Geography, McGill UniversityWinter 2008, Winter 2009, Fall 2009.• Honours project (GEOG 491), 2008-09• Independent Study (GEOG 490), Fall 2008• Workshop facilitation & development, Livelihoods and Ecosystems CIDA Workshop Series,for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) (2005)Service• Pro-dean, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University (2009)• 2008 Award Coordinator for the Association of American Geographers Jacques May ThesisPrize.• Facilitation of visit by Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. David Butler-Jones, toMcGill University. March 18, 2008.• Committee member, Comité Bilan Annual, Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, PublicHealth Agency of Canada (2006-2007)• Co-facilitator, University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute (ECI) 2000-01 alumnicommitteeCommittees• Institute of Health and Social Policy (IHSP) Executive Committee member, McGill (2008-current.• American Association of Geographers Health and Medical Geography Specialty GroupExcecutive Committee member-at-large (2008-2011)• GeoConnections Sequential Mapping and Public Health Data Steering Committee memberin collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Canada. 2006-2007.• African Studies Program, McGill University, 2007-current.Students• Supervisor for MA student (2008-current). Rose Eckhardt. Topic: Spatial analysis of climatechange and infectious diseases.• Supervisor for MSc student (2008-current). Valerie Hongoh. Topic: Understanding climatechange and mosquito-borne diseases in Canada.• Supervisor for NSERC Summer Research Assistant (2009): Jamie Lundine. Topic: Real-timeweb surveillance for health: a case-study of the Ushahidi-KANO project in Nairobi.- 4 -

LEA BERRANG FORD• Supervisor for Undergraduate honours student (2008/09): Jamie Lundine. Topic: Conflictand sleeping sickness in sub-Saharan Africa.• Independent study, BSc student (2008). Charlotte Picard. Topic: Environmental change andinfectious disease: temporal analysis of historical health and environment data for Peru.• PhD committee member. Rania Wasfi, Department of Geography. 2008-current. Thesis title:Transportation: A Social Determinant of Health: Examining Travel Behaviour, PhysicalActivity and Body Weight in a Canadian Cohort• MSc committee member. Mathieu Maheu-Girous, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatisticsand Occupational health, McGill University. 2007-current. Thesis title: An ecoepidemiologicalstudy of the impact of fish farming on malaria occurrence in the PeruvianAmazon.• PhD committee member. Carli Halpenny, Institute of Parasitology / McGill School of theEnvironment. 2007-current. Thesis title: A Multi-factorial Study Investigating the Impact ofConditional Transfer Programs on the Cycle of Malnutrition and Gastrointestinal ParasiteInfection.PublicationsPeer-reviewed articlesFord, J, T Pearce, J Prno, F Duerden, L Berrang-Ford, M Beaumier, and T Smith (2009)Perceptions of climate change risks in primary resource use industries: a survey of theCanadian mining sector. Regional Environmental Change, Early on-line release.Enfield, G., D.B. Ryves, K. Mills, and L. Berrang-Ford (2009) The gloomy forebodings of thisdread disease: climate, environment and sleeping sickness in East Africa around the turnof the twentieth century. Geographical Journal. On-line early release.Berrang-Ford, L. (2009) Climate change and health in Canada. McGill Journal of Medicine12(1):78-84.Ford, J., and L. Berrang-Ford (2009) Food insecurity in Igloolik, Nunavut: A baseline study.Polar Record 45(234):225-236.Goldhar, C. Ford, J., and Berrang Ford, L. (2009) Food security in western Greenland: A casestudy from Qeqertarsuaq in Sacred Lanscapes. J Oakes, R Riewe, R ten Bruggencate, and ACogswell (eds). Aboriginal Issues Press: Winnipeg, Manitoba.Berrang-Ford, L, D. MacLean, T. Gyorkos, J. Ford, N. Ogden (2009) Revisiting climate changeand malaria in Canada: a systems approach. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on InfectiousDisease 2009 (ID 385487):1-13.Berrang-Ford (2007) Civil conflict and sleeping sickness in Africa in general and Uganda inparticular. Conflict and Health 1:6.Berrang-Ford, L., O. Berke, L. Abdelrahman, D. Waltner-Toews, and J. McDermott (2006)Spatial analysis of sleeping sickness, South-eastern Uganda, 1970-2003. EmergingInfectious Diseases 12(5):813-20.Berrang-Ford, L., M. Odiit, F. Maiso, D. Waltner-Toews, and J. McDermott (2006) Sleepingsickness in Uganda: revisiting historical distributions, 1905-1920. African HealthSciences 6(4):223-231.Berrang-Ford, L., D. Waltner-Toews, D. Charron, M. Odiit, J. McDermott, and B. Smit (2005)Sleeping sickness in southeastern Uganda: a systems approach. EcoHealth 2(3):1-12.- 5 -

LEA BERRANG FORDForthcoming peer-reviewed articlesBerrang-Ford, L., O. Berke, and S. Sweeney (In press) Sleeping sickness in south-easternUganda: a spatio-temporal analysis of disease risk, 1970-2003. Vector-borne andZoonotic Diseases.Hongoh, V, L. Berrang-Ford, NH Ogden, R Lindsay, ME Scott, H Artsob (In press) A review ofenvironmental determinants and risk factors for avian-associated mosquito arboviruses inCanada. Biodiversity.Non-peer reviewed articlesBerrang-Ford, L., and D. Noble (2006) Climate change and health in Canadian municipalities.Environmental Health Review 50(4):109-115.Book contributions and reports:Ford, J., T. Pearce, J. Prno, F. Duerden, L. Berrang Ford et al. (2009). ‘Canary in a coalmine’:Climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability in the Canadian mining sector. Reportfor the David Suzuki Foundation.Berrang, L. (2005) Atlas of sleeping sickness in Uganda, 1905-20 and 1970-2003. For Decisionsupportfor trypanosomiasis and tsetse control in Uganda Workshop, Kampala, Uganda,7-8 December 2005.Massawe, S., T. Robinson, T. Randolph, L. Berrang Ford, and J. Mugenyi (In press) Tsetse andTrypanosomiasis Decision Support Atlas for Uganda. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI/ FAO.Berrang Ford, L. (2005) Strategic action framework: Norovirus transmission on the west coast.Public Health Agency of Canada, Foodborne, Waterborne and Zoonotic InfectionsDivision.Berrang, L. (2005) Land to Sea Norovirus Transmission on Canada’s West Coast: A contextReview. Public Health Agency of Canada, Foodborne, Waterborne and ZoonoticInfections Division.Berrang, L. (2005) Land to Sea Norovirus Transmission on Canada’s West Coast: Mapping ofCruise Ports and Passenger. Public Health Agency of Canada, Foodborne, Waterborneand Zoonotic Infections Division.Berrang, L. (2005) HIV/AIDS, In ‘Our Earth’s Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Useand Land-Cover Change. Westport, CT, USA: Greenwood Press.Berrang, L. (2005) Malaria, In ‘Our Earth’s Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Use andLand-Cover Change. Westport, CT, USA: Greenwood Press.Berrang, L. (2005) African trypanosomiasis, In ‘Our Earth’s Changing Land: An Encyclopediaof Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. Westport, CT, USA: Greenwood Press.Berrang, L. (2005) Watershed, In ‘Our Earth’s Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Useand Land-Cover Change. Westport, CT, USA: Greenwood Press.Media and outreachFord, J., L. Berrang Ford, T. Pearce (2008). Climate change - unlike the financial meltdown - is along-haul crisis. Montreal Gazette, 8 th December 2008, A25Ford, J., T. Pearce, and L. Berrang-Ford (2007) Climate change seems inevitable. The KitchenerRecord. 21 November 2007.- 6 -

LEA BERRANG FORDFord, J., L. Berrang-Ford, and T. Pearce (2007) Canada must be climate change leader:Upcoming international conference in Bali offers Canada a chance to maintain itsinternational reputation. Guelph Mercury, 2 November 2007.Notes from the field – Kampala, Uganda. McGill Reporter, July 2007.Berrang-Ford, L. (2006) It is possible to stay healthy in a changing climate. The GuelphMercury. 17 April 2007.Ford, J. and Berrang Ford, L. (2007). A response to the "Gorey Truths." Report prepared for theVictoria business club.Presentation, posters, and workshops:Presentation: M Maheu-Giroux, M Casapia, V Soto, L Berrang-Ford, DL Buckeridge, OTCoomes, and TW Gyorkos (2009) Are fish farming activities contributing to malariatransmission in the Peruvian Amazon? Paper for the American Society of TropicalMedicine and Hygiene meeting.Presentation. “Health geography” Soup & Science, Faculty of Science, McGill University. 13January 2009.Presentation: Goldhar, C. Ford, J., and Berrang Ford, L. (2008). Food security in westernGreenland: A case study from Qeqertarsuaq. ICASS VI, Nuuk, August 2008.Presentation to Swiss Re – Faculty of Science (McGill) collaborative meeting. “Climate changeand infectious disease: regional risk assessment and system analysis.” 12 December 2007.Presentation to the Faculty of Science. “Research, Dr. L. Berrang Ford.” 8 December 2007.Seminar, “GIS applications and infectious disease modeling.” GIS Day, Department ofGeography, McGill University. 14 November 2007.Guest lecture. “Spatial and temporal analysis of infectious disease: a case-study of sleepingsickness in Uganda.” Parasitology Seminar Series, Institute of Parasitology, McGillUniversity. 9 November 2007.Guest lecture. “Environmental and health.“ GEOG 200: Geographical Perspectives on WorldEnvironmental Problems, Department of Geography, McGill University. 27 September2007.Presentation. “Sleeping sickness in Uganda: spatial and temporal analysis of diseasereemergence.” Canadian Public Health Association Geomatics Conference, Ottawa (ON).16-19 September 2007.Presentation. “Health geography” Soup & Science, Faculty of Science, McGill University. 12September 2007.Berrang Ford, L. Environment, conflict and disease. Invited presentation for the University ofOttawa Institute for Population Health, 8 May 2007.Berrang-Ford, L. “Sleeping sickness in Uganda: a spatio-temporal analysis of environmentalchange, social conflict, and disease re-emergence, 1970-2003.” Presentation for theAssociation of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago (USA), 20 April 2007.Berrang Ford, L. Spatial and temporal analysis of sleeping sickness reemergence in Uganda.Invited presentation for the Animal Determinants of Emerging Disease Research Unit -Zoonoses Rounds, Virtual presentation (via teleconference), 17 April 2007.Berrang Ford, L. Les analyses spatiales et temporelles de la réapparition de la maladie dusommeil en Ouganda, in French [Spatial and temporal analyses of sleeping sicknessreemergence in Uganda]. Presentation to the Public Health Agency of Canada,- 7 -

LEA BERRANG FORDLaboratory of Foodborne Zoonoses scientific seminar, Saint Hyacinthe (QC), 10 April2007.Café Scientifique, “Climate change and Public Health,” facilitated with the British Council’sInternational Networking for Young Scientists’s meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, 2007.Role: Joint participation in presentation content and design.Berrang Ford, L. Spatial analysis and GIS for zoonotic disease research: sleeping sickness inUganda. Visiting researcher presentation for the Epidemiology Centre, NorwegianSchool of Veterinary Science, Oslo, Norway, 21 November 2006.Berrang Ford, L. GIS and spatial analysis research and capacity at the Saint Hyacinthe Unit ofthe Public Health Agency of Canada. Visiting Researcher presentation for theEpidemiology Centre, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Oslo, Norway, 21November 2006.Berrang Ford, L. Spatial analysis and GIS for zoonotic disease research: sleeping sickness inUganda. Visiting Researcher presentation for the Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Oslo,Norway, 28 November 2006.Berrang Ford, L. GIS and spatial analysis research and capacity at the Saint Hyacinthe Unit ofthe Public Health Agency of Canada. Visiting Researcher presentation for theEpidemiology Centre, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Oslo, Norway, 28November 2006.Panel presentation, Climate change, health, and water-borne disease in Canadian communities,for the Panel Session “Climate Change: the Elephant in the Room,” ‘Water in the City’Conference, Victoria, BC, 19 September (2006)Panel presentation, Ecosystem health and emerging infectious diseases, for the SustainableLivelihoods and Ecosystem Health Conference, Guelph, Ontario, 6 June (2006)Presentation, Spatial and temporal analysis of sleeping sickness in south-eastern Uganda,Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics Student Conference, 9 June, OntarioVeterinary College, Guelph, Canada (2006)Presentation, Re-emergence of sleeping sickness in Uganda. Graduate Student Appreciation Day,12 April 2006, Ontario Veterinary College, Guelph, Canada (2006)Presentation, Decision-support for trypanosomiasis and tsetse control in Uganda: research, policyimplications, and the way forward - Workshop in Kampala, Uganda, 7-8 December.“Sleeping sickness in south-eastern Uganda, 1970-2003” (2005)Workshop moderator, Bi-national Meeting: Norovirus Transmission Involving Cruiseships andLand-based Tourism, Victoria, Canada, 2-3 November. Public Health Agency of Canada(2005)Seminar, University of Guelph: “Spatial tools and wee beasties: using GIS, remote sensing, andspatial statistics to understand sleeping sickness in Uganda” (2005)Workshop facilitator, Livelihoods and Ecosystems Workshop, Hull, Quebec Canada, 3 March.The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the University of Guelph(2005)Workshop facilitator, Livelihoods and Ecosystems Workshop, Guelph, Canada, 4 February. TheCanadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the University of Guelph(2005)Seminar, Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph: “Spatial and temporalanalysis of sleeping sickness in SE Uganda” (2005)- 8 -

LEA BERRANG FORDPresentation, National Norovirus Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 19-20 January, 2005: “Land-seaNorovirus transmission on Canada’s west coast” Public Health Agency of Canada (2005)Poster presentation, Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph: Isaacs, S., L. Berrang, J.McCormick, and W. Kolodziejczak. “The Unwelcome Passenger: Land to Sea NorovirusTransmission on Canada’s West Coast” In association with McMaster University (2004)Poster presentation, Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph: Berrang, L. andS. Calvin. “Pesticide Use for West Nile Virus in Guelph” (2003)Seminar, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph: “Environmental change andinfectious disease” (2003)Poster presentation, Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph: Berrang, L.“Sleeping sickness in Uganda: Mapping Risk” (2003)Seminar, Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph: “Environmental change andinfectious disease: sleeping sickness in Uganda” (2002)Article peer-review:• Environment & History (2009)• Epidemiology & Infection (2008)• Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2006, 2007)• Emerging Infectious Diseases (2006, 2007)• Health & Place (2007)Additional skills and outside activities• Fluent in English and French• Photography (semi-professional)- 9 -