Project Description: This research involves health mapping based on the model of the New Brunswick Climate Change HUB and Lung Association, where a member of the SDC has been hired by the NB Lung Association to direct the mapping since 1999. This analysis is combined on a Geographic Information System GIS with Green Mapping and First Nation Heritage mapping in regions across Quebec to create multiple interactive interdisciplinary layers for understanding human and environmental health. The SDC-CDD is working with health and environmental organizations across Quebec to help citizens understand health determinants.
Description of final product: The final product will involve web-design, an analysis of relational economy, the creation of a time-bank, and a community human resource Catalogue. Students will be working on teams with health organizations, organizing committees and networks across Quebec to research, compile and express environmental-health data provincially or in regions. Interdisciplinary data is usually organized on Excel files before transfer into GIS formats, formatted into interactive Web software formats and communicated with a broad range of partners. We are primarily mapping positive health lifestyle patterns and choices at home and in community.
Length to be determined by the student's vision and course requirements. There are a large range of small, medium and large environmental health mapping applications to be determined in communication between the student and the various organizing committees.
Education and skills required: Knowledge in the fields of health, medicine, and epidemiology are strong assets. As this work is interdisciplinary, however, students are welcome from every domain, skill-level, training & interest. SDC-CDD works with a Vision-quest approach whereby students are asked to consider their own inspirations or goals and how these might apply to each task. We are willing to widely ‘veer' from our original targets depending on student visions and suggestions.
About the organization: The Sustainable Development Corporation du developpement durable SDC-CDD is a Tiohtiake (greater Montreal archipelago) Canadian Non-Profit since 1994 working in a participatory inter-disciplinary way with students, citizens, organizations, business, institutions & governments on ecological-economic design.