BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

Through this strategic initiative, the funding partners wish to solicit multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral proposals that address the link between the built environment and health and focus on solutions at the population level. The aims of the initiative are:
• to support intervention research that examines programs, events and/or policy changes related to the built environment (outcome of community planning, design and implementation) and has the potential to address health problems at the population level;
• to build population health research capacity in Canada to study the built environment and its impacts on obesity and other heath issues;
• to encourage "horizontal" networks and collaboration among the different sectors such as urban planners, researchers from various disciplines (including trainees and new investigators), communities, government, industry, and non-profit organizations; and
• to develop knowledge transfer and exchange (knowledge translation) opportunities between researchers and knowledge users.