Michael Widener, University of Waterloo

Research

Built Environment Food Environment Healthy Cities Knowledge Translation Nutrition Population Health Intervention

Latest funding

Creating healthier cities through monitoring Canadian retail food environments: Using a novel administrative database to establish valid, small-area, Canada-wide, open-access measures to monitor the retail food environment for population health intervention research and municipal food environment policy action.
CIHR · 2018 · Principal investigator
$99,628
SMART PREVENTION: Developing smart city enabled precision public health research infrastructure for disease and injury prevention
CIHR · 2017 · Co-investigator
$10,000

Creating healthier cities through monitoring Canadian retail food environments: Using a novel administrative database to establish valid, small-area, Canada-wide, open-access measures to monitor the retail food environment for population health intervention research and municipal food environment policy action.

Principal investigatorCIHR2018Op Gr: Data Analysis Using Existing Databases and Cohorts - Pop n Public Health

Principal investigators: Minaker, Leia; Ross, Nancy; Widener, Michael J

Keywords: Built Environment; Food Environment; Healthy Cities; Knowledge Translation; Nutrition; Population Health Intervention

$99,628

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

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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