PAPREN Equity & Resilience Work Group

Gentrification Urban Interventions and Equity (GENUINE): advancing healthy city research on gentrification in Canadian cities

Caislin Leah Firth, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC. Caislin works on the Interventions, Research and Action in Cities Team (INTERACT) as a social epidemiologist focused on designing equitable healthy cities and mitigating negative health effects of gentrification. Caislin’s research spans criminal justice, cannabis, and healthy city research.

Daniel Fuller, PhD, Canadian Research Chair in Population Physical Activity. Dan is a Principal Investigator on the INTERACT team and Canada Research Chair in Population Physical Activity in the School of Human Kinetics and Recreation at Memorial University. His research is focused on physical activity, transportation interventions, and equity in urban spaces.