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Alan Abelsohn
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An international planetary health for primary care massive open online course.
The Lancet. Planetary health · 2023
The World Organization of Family Doctors Air Health Train the Trainer Program: lessons learned and implications for planetary health education.
The Lancet. Planetary health · 2023 · senior author
On the importance of primary and community healthcare in relation to global health and environmental threats: lessons from the COVID-19 crisis.
BMJ global health · 2021
Latest funding
- $100,000
Promoting planetary health education, smoking-free home, and clean air community mobilization to prevent air pollution related non-communicable diseases in urban Pakistan
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
7 publications.
An international planetary health for primary care massive open online course.
Floss M, Abelsohn A, Kirk A, Khoo SM, Saldiva PHN, Umpierre RN, McGushin A, Yoon S
The World Organization of Family Doctors Air Health Train the Trainer Program: lessons learned and implications for planetary health education.
McGushin A, de Barros EF, Floss M, Mohammad Y, Ndikum AE, Ngendahayo C, Oduor PA, Sultana S, Wong R, Abelsohn A
On the importance of primary and community healthcare in relation to global health and environmental threats: lessons from the COVID-19 crisis.
Lauriola P, Martín-Olmedo P, Leonardi GS, Bouland C, Verheij R, Dückers MLA, van Tongeren M, Laghi F, van den Hazel P, Gokdemir O, Segredo E, Etzel RA, Abelsohn A, Bianchi F, Romizi R, Miserotti G, Romizi F, Bortolotti P, Vinci E, Giustetto G, Santamaria M, Serafini A, Pegoraro S, Agius R, Zeka A
A Systematic Review of the Short-Term Health Effects of Air Pollution in Persons Living with Coronary Heart Disease.
Warburton DER, Bredin SSD, Shellington EM, Cole C, de Faye A, Harris J, Kim DD, Abelsohn A
Challenges and opportunities in planetary health for primary care providers.
Xie E, de Barros EF, Abelsohn A, Stein AT, Haines A
Beyond Alcohol and Tobacco Smoke: Are We Doing Enough to Reduce Fetal Toxicant Exposure?
Crighton E, Abelsohn A, Blake J, Enders J, Kilroy K, Lanphear B, Marshall L, Phipps E, Smith G
Climate change: should family physicians and family medicine organizations pay attention?
Abelsohn A, Rachlis V, Vakil C
Promoting planetary health education, smoking-free home, and clean air community mobilization to prevent air pollution related non-communicable diseases in urban Pakistan
Principal investigators: Wei, Xiaolin; Abelsohn, Alan; Khan, Muhammad Amir
Keywords: Air Pollution; Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial; Community Based Interventions; Community Mobilization; Implementation Science; Non-Communicable Diseases; Pakistan; Planetary Health Education; Tobacco Cessation
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Clinical Public Health Division
- Department of Family and Community Medicine
- Geography and Environmental Studies
- School of Nursing
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