A huge congratulations to GOHELP's Stephanie Lu, for successfully defending her final PhD thesis on Thursday August 10th, 2017! A copy of her final thesis, is available for viewing . Way to go Stephanie!
A huge congratulations to GOHELP's Kristin Brown, for successfully defending her final PhD thesis on Thursday August 17th, 2017! A copy of her final thesis,, is available for viewing . Way to go Kristin!
A huge congratulations to GOHelP's Kristin Brown and Elijah Bisung, for the acceptance of their papers for publication.
Kristin Brown's paper, “Now what?” Perceived factors influencing knowledge exchange in school health research, has been accepted in the Journal of Health Promotion Practice.
Elijah Bisung's paper, “It makes us really look inferior to outsiders”: psychosocial impacts of the lack of safe water and sanitation, has been accepted in the Canadian Journal of Public Health.
The semi-final competition took place last week, where 17 teams competed and presented their innovative ideas to address the challenges and opportunities facing Lake Erie.
The has been announced, and will take place in New Zealand on June 30th - July 5th 2019.
Menstrual Hygiene Day was celebrated on May 26th at the University of ݮƵ. GoHelP's Sabrina Li was one of the two primary organizers for the event, supported by a team of volunteers. Guest speakers included Dr. Susan Elliott and Elizabeth Onyango (Queen Elizabeth Scholar) from the GoHelP team, who discussed topics such as the lack of menstrual hygiene and consequences for girls in East Africa, and the best contributors to improving menstrual hygiene in the developing world, such as water and sanitation, during the panel discussion.
about the successful event.
We are thrilled to have 10 team members representing the GoHelp Lab at the near the end of the month! Take a look at the exciting academic presentations by the GoHelP team:
A big congratulations to GoHelP's George Atiim for the acceptance of his paper in the journal of Global Health Research and Policy:
George A Atiim; Susan J Elliott, PhD; Ann E Clarke, MD. "If we are waiting for the numbers alone, we will miss the point". A qualitative study of the perceived rise of food allergy and associated risk factors in the Greater Accra region, Ghana.
The Rideau Hall Foundation released its 2016-2017 annual report for the Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship Program this week. QES scholar and GoHelP lab member Liz Ochola is featured on the front page of the article, as well as inside in a photo with His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, the Governor General of Canada. The pictures were taken during the QES scholar visit to Rideau Hall in June 2016.
The article '', co-authored by Stephanie Lu, Dr. Susan Elliott, and Christopher Perlman, was published this week in the journal Evaluation. The article examines the unique evaluation barriers and facilitators experienced by small NGOs working in water-based development, through an organizational-level evaluation of the small Canadian NGO, .