Sherilee Harper joins the Department of Population Medicine this week as an assistant professor in ecosystem approaches to health management.
She joins the faculty with several years of research experience through collaboration with faculty from U of G, McGill University Geography and the Public Health Agency of Canada. Her PhD research was focused on the resiliency of indigenous people in Canada’s North to the effects of climate change.
Her ongoing work at OVC will focus on research and training in ecosystem approaches to health research, specializing in foodborne and waterborne disease in the context of global environmental change. Harper is particularly interested in the impacts of environmental change on waterborne diseases affecting indigenous people in the Arctic, Ugandan rainforest, and Peruvian Amazon.
Harper’s research is a part of a larger international initiative called the Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change project (www.ihacc.ca).
She will be located in Room 2540 and can be reached via email at harpers@uoguelph.ca.
Sherilee Harper’s research focuses on the effects of climate change on waterborne disease.