LEA BERRANG FORD - Department of Geography, McGill University

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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 -
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