How do we use innovative methods to investigate community environments?
We design, validate, and use innovative and rigorous interdisciplinary methods and tools to help assess the impact of community environments on health, wellbeing, and equity outcomes. Improving how we study place – and how we include community perspectives in research – is just as important what we learn about place when thinking about people and their health.
Collaborative Projects and Publications
- 2021-2023
Co-creating a Data and Knowledge Roadmap to Support Youth Homelessness Research, Operations, and Policy in Canada
(Making the Shift)
Collaborative Leads: Yale Belanger, Robyn Blackadar, Janice Victor, Naomi Nichol, Matthew Russell, Xinjie Cui, Naomi Parker - 2019 – 2023
Reducing HIV-related Stigma in School Children in Northern Uganda: A Multi-level Arts-based Population Health Intervention
(CIHR: Project Scheme – September 12, 2018)
Principal Investigators: Bonnie Fournier (NPI), Olenka Bilash, Geoffrey M Maina, Joshua Mendelsohn, Santo Ojok (KU) - 2019 – 2026
Evaluation Capacity Network: Collaborating for Community Driven and Culturally Relevant Early Childhood Practices, Programs, and Policies
(SSHRC: Partnership Grant)
Principal Investigators: Rebecca Gokiert (NPI); Richard Janzen (KU), Leslie Fierro, Isabelle Bourgeois, Christopher Mushquash, Magdalena Janus, Anna Kirova, Sharla Peltier, Cheryl-Anne Poth, Javier Mignone, Jessica Ball - 2020 – 2022
Income Inequality within Schools and Mental Health among Canada’s Youth
(Women & Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI): Innovation Grant)
Principal Investigator: Roman Pabayo - 2020 – 2021
Social and Public Health Response to COVID-19: Intervening to address Financial Strain and Mental Health Consequences of the Pandemic
(CIHR: Operating Grant: COVID-19 May 2020 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity)
Principal Investigators: Candace Nykiforuk (NPI), Evelyne de Leeuw (Co-PI)
*Project conducted through the Centre for Healthy Communities - 2020 – 2020
Project-planning and Team-building for a Collaborative, Inclusive, and Equitable Urban Accessibility Research Project: Bridging Practice, Research, and Experiences of Dis/ability in Edmonton
(CIHR: Planning and Dissemination Grant – Institute Community Support; 2019-09-25)
Principal Investigators: Candace Nykiforuk (NPI); Nicole Glenn (Co-PI)
* Project conducted through the Centre for Healthy Communities - 2018-2020
Neighbourhood Income Inequality and Maternal and Child Mental Health in Calgary
(WCHRI Innovation Grant) + (MSI Foundation)
Principal Investigator: Roman Pabayo - 2018 – 2019
Healthier Cities, Sustainable Futures: Leveraging Municipal Smart City Data and Technological Innovation to Improve Population Health and Health Equity
(CIHR: IPPH Planning & Dissemination Grants: Healthy Cities)
Principal Investigator: Candace Nykiforuk
*Centre for Healthy Communities project - 2017 – 2019
Development and Pilot Testing of a Novel Web-based Platform to Assess the Impact of the BC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Coupon Program on the Dietary Intake and Well-being of Low-Income Adults
(University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine: Clinical Research Fund (CRF) Grant)
Principal Investigator: Dana L Olstad - 2017 – 2019
Examining the Impacts of Wildfires on the Health and Well-being of Indigenous Peoples and Communities in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo
(CIHR Operating Grant: Health Effects of the Alberta Wildfires)
Principal Investigators: Stephanie Montesanti (NPI), Tara McGee, Val Austen Wiebe (KU)
- Nykiforuk, C.I.J. (2021). Engaging patients in research using photovoice methodology. CMAJ, Epub 2021 July 12. DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.210963 https://www.cmaj.ca/content/193/27/E1050
- Brown, J.A., Ferdinands, A.R., Prowse, R., Reynard, D., Raine, K.D., & Nykiforuk, C.I.J. (2021). Seeing the food swamp for the weeds: moving beyond retail food mix in evaluating young people’s food environments. SS&M – Population Health, 14:100803. E-pub 2021 April 26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100803 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827321000781
- Nejatinamini, S., Godley, J., Minaker, L.M., Sajobi, T.T., McCormack, G.R., Cooke, M.J., Nykiforuk, C.I.J., de Koning, L., & Olstad, D.L. (2021). Quantifying the contributions of modifiable risk factors to socioeconomic inequities in cancer morbidity and mortality: a population-based cohort study. International Journal of Epidemiology, Epub 2021 April 12:1-14. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab067
- Nykiforuk, C.I.J., Glenn, N.M., Hosler, I., Crowe, H., Reynard, D., Molner, B., Candlish, J., & Lowe, S. (2021). Understanding urban accessibility: A community-engaged pilot study of entrance features. Social Science & Medicine, 273:113775. Epub 2021 March 1:1-10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113775
- Belon, A.P., Serrano-Lomelin, J., Nykiforuk, C.I.J., Hicks, A., Crawford, S., Bakal, J., Ospina, M.B. (2020). Health gradients in emergency visits and hospitalizations for pediatric respiratory diseases: a population-based retrospective cohort study. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 34(2): 150-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ppe.12639
- Nieuwendyk, L.M., Belon, A.P., Vallianatos, H., Raine, K.D., Schopflocher, D., Spence, J.C., Plotnikoff, R.C., Nykiforuk, C.I. (2016). How perceptions of community environment influence health behaviours: using the Analysis Grid for Environments Linked to Obesity framework as a mechanism for exploration. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice, 36(9): 175-184. Epub 2016 Sep 22. DOI: 24095/hpcdp.36.9.01
- Lytvyak, E., Olstad, D.L., Schopflocher, D.P., Plotnikoff, R.C., Storey, K.E., Nykiforuk, C.I.J., Raine, K.D. (2016). Impact of a 3-year multi-centre community-based intervention on risk factors for chronic disease and obesity among free-living adults: the Healthy Alberta Communities study. BMC Public Health, 16(1): 344. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3021-1
- Minaker, L.M., Raine, K.D., Wild, T.C., Nykiforuk, C., Thompson, M.E., Frank, L.D. (2014). Construct validation of 4 food-environment assessment methods: adapting a multitrait-multimethod matrix approach for environmental measures. American Journal of Epidemiology, 179(4): 519-528. Epub 2013 Nov 20. DOI: 1093/aje/kwt272
- Raine, K.D., Sosa Hernandez, C., Nykiforuk, C.I.J., Reed, S., Montemurro, G., Lytvyak, E., MacLellan-Wright, M-F. (2014). Measuring the progress of capacity building in the Alberta Policy Coalition for Cancer Prevention. Health Promotion Practice, 15(4): 496-505. Epub 2013 Dec 13. DOI: 1177/1524839913511627 PMID: 24334541
