Current Trainees
Georgia Murray
Master's in Health Promotion Candidate
Georgia is a Master of Arts in Health Promotion Candidate. Her area of research is under the larger flagship project of Creating Sustainable Health Systems in a Climate Crisis, specifically looking into estimating the environmental impact of patients meals in hospital. Previously, Georgia earned her Bachelor of Health Science Honors with a concentration in Global Health from Carleton University. In addition to school, Georgia spends her free time coaching competitive figure skating. Georgia was awarded a highly competitive scholarship (CGS-M) from CIHR.
Kelachi Nsitem
Master's in Epidemiology and Applied Health Research Student
Kelachi is a Master's student in the Department of Epidemiology and Applied Health Research as well as a graduate student trainee with the Healthy Populations Institute flagship project on Sustainable Healthcare Systems in a Climate Crisis. Her research interests include environmental epidemiology, health equity, and population health. Outside of her academics, she is a dancer and dance fitness instructor, a fencer, and enjoys gardening and baking. Kelachi was awarded a highly competitive scholarship (CGS-M) from CIHR.
Matthew McKitrick
PhD Candidate in the PhD in Health Program
My PhD research aims to produce a spatial model of public exposures to radiation produced by nuclear power plants and to investigate the potential relationship between cumulative radiation doses and negative health outcomes like cancer and cardiovascular disease. My studies lie at that intersection of human health and geospatial attributes where I utilize GIS and statistical tools to model and identify the interactions between health outcomes and the spatial characteristics of where people live. My personal interests include fitness, hiking, cycling, and back country camping. Matthew receives a funding stipend from CIHR Project Grant (PI: Villeneuve P) Patterns of mortality and cancer incidence among adults who live near Canadian nuclear power plants: A population-based longitudinal study of CanCHEC participants between 1991 and 2016.​
Dr. Jono Drew
PhD Candidate in the Interdisciplinary PhD Program
Jono Drew is a medical doctor from Aotearoa, New Zealand who is now an Interdisciplinary PhD (IDPhD) student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. His research aims to explore relationships between national and provincial health sector pollution and healthcare access and quality in Canada. In his spare time, Jono enjoys spending time outdoors with his partner and young son. Jono is a Killam Scholar having recently been awarded a Killam Doctoral Scholarship.
Thank you to research Nova Scotia (researchNS), the Maritime SPOR Support Unit (MSSU), the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund for Advanced Studies, the federal tri-council funding agencies (CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC), as well as several government agencies and departments (PHAC, Health Canada, NS ECC, DHW & NSH) for supporting trainee research.