Dr. Karen Morrison

 

Email: karenm@uoguelph.ca

Office: Cinical Research, 207A
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Profile

Dr. Morrison has extensive international experience working in the areas of ecosystem approaches to health and water governance. She is on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Ecology and Health and the Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health. Her research focuses on the field of ecohealth and the social and environmental determinants of health. In addition to teaching in the MPH and DVM programs, she is a mentor for the University of Guelph EcoHealth Club.

Dr. Morrison was inducted into the University of Toronto Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.

Education

Post-Doc - Nasivvik Centre for Inuit Health and Changing Environments
Ph.D. - Rural Studies (Sustainable Rural Communities). University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
M.Sc. - Environmental Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
B. Sc. - Environmental Science and Biology, Minor in French Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Research

• Ecosystem approaches to health (inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to health research)
• Social-ecological resilience
• Social and environmental determinants of health
• Health communication - particularly related to One Health and ecohealth
• Governance and public policy

Teaching

POPM*6530 Health Communication I
POPM*6570 Health Communication II
POPM Special Topics Course in Ecology and Health
POPM Special Topics 'Wicked Problems', Interdisciplinarity and Mixed Methods
DVM Ecosystem Health Rotation

2011 Canadian Community of Practice in Ecohealth Field Course, UNBC

Links

International Association for Ecology and Health
Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health
Canadian Community of Practice in EcoHealth
Resilience Alliance
Veterinarians without Borders Canada

Professional Experience & Honours

Board of Directors:
International Association for Ecology and Health (2010 - present)
Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health (2007 - present)

Selected Publications

A. Refereed Contributions

Books

MORRISON, K. 2008. Situated Learning, Social-Ecological Resilience and Human Health: A Study of Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in Cuban Coastal Communities. Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM. ISBN: 978-3-639-04969-5

Book Chapters

Gosselin, P., K. MORRISON, S. Lapointe and M. Valcke. 2011. Capitulo 4. Evaluación de riesgos y epidemiología ambiental. Los nuevos desafíos en las Américas. In: Galvao, L.A.C., Finkelman, J. and Henao, S. (eds.). Determinantes ambientales y sociales de la salud. Washington, D.C.: Pan American Health Organization. 67-99. ISBN: 978-92-75-33129-3

MORRISON, K. and D. Waltner-Toews. 2011. Chapter 17. Social-ecological resilience and Inuit child health. In: Bell, E., B.M. Seidel and J. Merrick (eds). Climate change and rural child health. Health and Human Development Series. Jerusalem: Nova Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-61209-014-6

MORRISON, K. 2010. Ciguatera Fish Poisoning on the North Shore of La Habana, Cuba. In: Waltner-Toews, D. (ed.). One Health for One World: A Compendium of Case Studies. Vancouver: Veterinarians with Borders / Vétérinaires sans Frontières Canada.

Journals

Bunch, M. J., K. E. MORRISON, M. W. Parkes and H. D. Venema. 2011. Promoting Health and Well-Being by Managing for Social-Ecological Resilience: the Potential of Integrating Ecohealth and Water Resources Management Approaches. Ecology and Society 16 (1): 6. [online]

Parkes, M.W., K. MORRISON, Bunch, M.J., Hallstrom, L.K., Neudoerffer, R.C., Venema H.C. and Waltner-Toews, D. 2010. Towards integrated governance for water, health and social-ecological systems: the watershed governance prism. Global Environmental Change. 20:693-704.

MORRISON, K. and D. Waltner-Toews. 2010. A Spoonful of Resilience. Alternatives. 36(2):26-29.

MORRISON, K. and D. Waltner-Toews. 2010. Social Ecological Resilience and Inuit Child Health: What does the future hold? International Journal of Public Health. 2(4): on-line pagination.

MORRISON, K., P.A. Prieto, A.C. Dominguez, D. Waltner-Toews and J. FitzGibbon. 2008. Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in La Habana, Cuba: A Study of Local Social-Ecological Resilience. EcoHealth 5(3):346-359.

MORRISON, K. 2003. "Community Participation in Water Management: Necessity or Luxury" Water, Science & Technology. 47(6): 43-51.

Forde, M., K. MORRISON, E. Dewailly, N. Badrie and L. Robertson. Strengthening integrated research and capacity development within the Caribbean region. BMC International Health and Human Rights. 11(S2):S2-S7.