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Jennifer Dean

ResearcherUrban PlanningUniversity of Waterloo

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Jennifer Dean

Researcher

Urban Planning

Health Sciences

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
2 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (3 CIHR, 1 SSHRC), most recently in 2019.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2025.

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Research

Health Equity Public Health Active Transportation Cycling Healthy Public Policy Implementation Science Road Safety Transportation Infrastructure

Latest papers

Interrogating Healthy Community Discourse in Municipal Policies: Priorities of a Medium-Sized CMA in Ontario, Canada.
International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025 · senior author
Urban design and adolescent mental health: A qualitative examination of adolescent emotional responses to pedestrian- and transit-oriented design and cognitive architecture concepts.
Health & place · 2022
Thinking relationally about built environments and walkability: A study of adult walking behavior in Waterloo, Ontario.
Health & place · 2020 · first author

All 8 publications

Latest funding

Moving the needle on health inequities: An exploration of healthy community priorities and initiatives in Ontario
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$2,000
Urban environments and youth mental health: examining how adolescent mental health indicators are associated with urban design and cognitive architecture in a mid-sized Ontario city
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Mobilizing justice: towards evidence-based transportation equity policy
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$998,600

All 11 grants and awards

8 publications.

Interrogating Healthy Community Discourse in Municipal Policies: Priorities of a Medium-Sized CMA in Ontario, Canada.

Stenberg K, Dean J

International journal of environmental research and public health2025Senior author

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph22020172 PMID: 40003398

Urban design and adolescent mental health: A qualitative examination of adolescent emotional responses to pedestrian- and transit-oriented design and cognitive architecture concepts.

Buttazzoni A, Dean J, Minaker L

Health & place2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102825 PMID: 35636073

Thinking relationally about built environments and walkability: A study of adult walking behavior in Waterloo, Ontario.

Dean J, Biglieri S, Drescher M, Garnett A, Glover T, Casello J

Health & place2020First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102352 PMID: 32838880

Holding the keys to health? A scoping study of the population health impacts of automated vehicles.

Dean J, Wray AJ, Braun L, Casello JM, McCallum L, Gower S

BMC public health2019First author

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-019-7580-9 PMID: 31510986

Double Burden of Rural Migration in Canada? Considering the Social Determinants of Health Related to Immigrant Settlement Outside the Cosmopolis.

Patel A, Dean J, Edge S, Wilson K, Ghassemi E

International journal of environmental research and public health2019

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16050678 PMID: 30813529

Challenges to evidence-based health promotion: a case study of a Food Security Coalition in Ontario, Canada.

Meyer SB, Edge SS, Beatty J, Leatherdale S, Perlman C, Dean J, Ward PR, Kirkpatrick SI

Health promotion international2018

DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dax011 PMID: 28379371

Disclosing food allergy status in schools: health‐related stigma among school children in Ontario

Dean J, Fenton NE, Shannon S, Elliott SJ, Clarke A

Health and Social Care in the Community201653 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1111/hsc.12244

"We don't have such a thing, that you may be allergic": Newcomers' understandings of food allergies in Canada.

Harrington DW, Dean J, Wilson K, Qamar Z

Chronic illness2015

DOI: 10.1177/1742395314546136 PMID: 25085906

Moving the needle on health inequities: An exploration of healthy community priorities and initiatives in Ontario

SupervisorCIHR2025Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Stenberg, Keely A

Keywords: Ics Travel Awards

$2,000

Urban environments and youth mental health: examining how adolescent mental health indicators are associated with urban design and cognitive architecture in a mid-sized Ontario city

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Project Grant - PA: Population and Public Health - Healthy Cities

Principal investigators: Minaker, Leia

Keywords: Built Environment; Cognitive Architecture; Healthy Cities; Mental Health; Planning; Youth/Adolescence

$100,000

Mobilizing justice: towards evidence-based transportation equity policy

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Grants

Keywords: transportation; justice; equity; mobility; technology; accessibility; policy; guidelines

$998,600

Immigrant settlement in rural communities: Exploring access to the determinants of health

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Dean, Jennifer

Keywords: (1) Immigration; (2) Rural settlement; (3) Social determinants of health; (4) Health inequities; (5) Welcoming communities; (6) Healthy communities

$69,492

Implementing Active Transportation Initiatives for a Healthier Region of Waterloo

Nominated PICIHR2019Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Dean, Jennifer

Keywords: Active Transportation; Cycling; Healthy Public Policy; Implementation Science; Road Safety; Transportation Infrastructure; Walking

$61,002

Communities left behind a timely examination of school closure controversies for justice-informed decision-making on the fate of public schools in Ontario

Co-investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Collins, Patricia A.

Keywords: public school closures; social equity and environmental justice; urban and rural community planning; collaborative planning; deliberative democracy; liveability; comparative case study; mixed methods; multi-stakeholder workshops; Ontario

$236,327

Planning for healthy rural communities: Launching a community-driven research program on the health implications of changing settlement patterns of immigrants in the Region of Peel, Ontario

Nominated PICIHR2017Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Dean, Jennifer

Keywords: Environmental Scan; Health Equity; Healthy Communities; Immigrant Settlement Patterns; Knowledge Exchange; Public Health; Rural Health; Scoping Review; Urban Planning

$19,618

Towards healthy mid-sized cities: Assessing the potential for electric-bicycles to facilitate sustainable transportation reform using big-data

Nominated PICIHR2017Planning/Dissemination Grants - IPPH - ICS - Building Healthy Cities - ECI pool

Principal investigators: Dean, Jennifer

Keywords: Big Data; Built Environment; Electric Bicycles; Health Equity; Healthy Cities; Public Health

$10,000

SMART PREVENTION: Developing smart city enabled precision public health research infrastructure for disease and injury prevention

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Planning/Dissemination Grants - IPPH - ICS - Building Healthy Cities - ECI pool

Principal investigators: Minaker, Leia

Keywords: Disease Prevention; Healthy Cities; Municipal Policy; Smart Cities

$10,000

Refining a Scaling Up Strategy for Bringing Local Healthy Food to School through Learning Circles in First Nations and Métis Communities

Co-investigatorCIHR2015Team Grant: Pathways Implementation Research Team - Component 2

Principal investigators: Hanning, Rhona M; Dhanwant, Kiku (Karen) A

Keywords: Community Capacity Building; Culture; First Nations; Food Systems; Healthy Eating; Knowledge Translation And Exchange; Metis; Scaling Up; Social Capital

$673,261

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Jennifer Dean

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Interrogating Healthy Community Discourse in Municipal Policies: Priorities of a Medium-Sized CMA in Ontario, Canada.

Urban design and adolescent mental health: A qualitative examination of adolescent emotional responses to pedestrian- and transit-oriented design and cognitive architecture concepts.

Thinking relationally about built environments and walkability: A study of adult walking behavior in Waterloo, Ontario.

Holding the keys to health? A scoping study of the population health impacts of automated vehicles.

Double Burden of Rural Migration in Canada? Considering the Social Determinants of Health Related to Immigrant Settlement Outside the Cosmopolis.

Challenges to evidence-based health promotion: a case study of a Food Security Coalition in Ontario, Canada.

Disclosing food allergy status in schools: health‐related stigma among school children in Ontario

"We don't have such a thing, that you may be allergic": Newcomers' understandings of food allergies in Canada.

Moving the needle on health inequities: An exploration of healthy community priorities and initiatives in Ontario

Urban environments and youth mental health: examining how adolescent mental health indicators are associated with urban design and cognitive architecture in a mid-sized Ontario city

Mobilizing justice: towards evidence-based transportation equity policy

Immigrant settlement in rural communities: Exploring access to the determinants of health

Implementing Active Transportation Initiatives for a Healthier Region of Waterloo

Communities left behind a timely examination of school closure controversies for justice-informed decision-making on the fate of public schools in Ontario

Planning for healthy rural communities: Launching a community-driven research program on the health implications of changing settlement patterns of immigrants in the Region of Peel, Ontario

Towards healthy mid-sized cities: Assessing the potential for electric-bicycles to facilitate sustainable transportation reform using big-data

SMART PREVENTION: Developing smart city enabled precision public health research infrastructure for disease and injury prevention

Refining a Scaling Up Strategy for Bringing Local Healthy Food to School through Learning Circles in First Nations and Métis Communities

Frequent collaborators

Leia Minaker

Anna Garnett

Troy Glover

Stephanie Gower

Susan Elliott

Scott Leatherdale