Recent News
Smoke Free Outdoors: The Woodstock Story
In 2008, the City of Woodstock, enacted a comprehensive outdoor smoking by-law that restricted or banned smoking in parks..
Youth survey finds levels of cigarillo use persist...
The results of the latest national Youth Smoking Survey (YSS) indicate that youth are not seeing cigarillos as harmful as cigarettes, supporting the need for impending Bill C-32.
“ Our biostatistics group designs, conducts, and analyzes population health studies and surveys to help make evidence-based decisions to improve the health of Canadians.”
Dr. Steve Brown
Director, Biostatistics Group, Propel Centre for Population Health Impact,Directeur, Groupe de la biostatistique, Centre pour l’avancement de la santé des populations Propel
“ We‘re supporting Canadians by helping to create environments where youth remain smoke-free, eat healthy foods, and stay active.”
Dr. Steve Manske
Senior Scientist, Propel Centre for Population Health Impact
“ My affiliation with Propel helps me work with leading, innovative, and impact-oriented scientists to reduce the burden of cancer for as many people as possible by focusing on the population level.”
Dr. Scott Leatherdale
Scientist and CCO Research Chair, and Exchange Fellow, Propel Centre for Population Health Impact,Scientifique titulaire d’une chaire de recherche d’ACO et boursier dans le cadre d’un échange, Centre pour l’avancement de la santé des populations Propel
“ Supporting Propel‘s mandate to link evidence and action, we‘re helping to shape the world‘s first international public health treaty by building the evidence base for stronger tobacco control policies around the world.”
Dr. David Hammond
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Studies, University of Waterloo
“ UW‘s International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project works with Propel to conduct surveys that evaluate tobacco control policies in 20 countries, inhabited by 70% of the world‘s tobacco users.”
Dr. Geoffrey Fong
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo
“ We‘re building the research methods and evidence to support cancer survivorship initiatives and advocacy that will lead to enhanced quality of life and evidence informed policies and programs.”
Dr. Sharon Campbell
Senior Scientist, Propel Centre for Population Health Impact
“ We‘re accelerating the generation and use of relevant, credible, and timely evidence to improve population health solutions.
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Dr. Barbara Riley
Director, Strategy and Capacity Development, and Senior Scientist, Propel Centre for Population Health Impact
“ Propel provides infrastructure to support my research on strategies to prevent dementia and maximize the likelihood of healthy aging for all.”
Suzanne Tyas
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Department of Health Studies and Gerontology, University of Waterloo
“ Designed with support from Propel, our unique web-based food behaviour questionnaire has been accessed across Canada, including First Nation communities, to tackle childhood obesity.”
Rhona Hanning
Associate Professor, Department of Health Studies and Gerontology, University of Waterloo
“ We work with people who share our passion for improving the health of Canadians and others around the world.”
Dr. Roy Cameron
Executive Director, Propel Centre for Population Health Impact
“ We work closely with scientists at Propel to design and implement surveys on many topics related to cancer prevention.”
Dr. Mary Thompson
Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Making an impact
The Propel Centre for Population Health Impact is committed to preventing cancer and chronic disease by improving health at a population level, and reducing the impact of cancer on people affected by it. We‘re sponsored by our founding partner, the Canadian Cancer Society, and the University of Waterloo as we work with leaders in science, policy and practice, to jointly plan, conduct, and act on studies that lead to improvements in policies and programs and guide social change. At Propel, our vision is to help transform the health of populations in Canada and around the world. Our initial focus is on tobacco control, youth health, and improved quality of life for those who have been touched by cancer.
Strategic Initiatives
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Tobacco Control
Tobacco use is the number one preventable cause of death. In Canada alone, there are almost five million smokers. If they continue to smoke, between one-third and one-half of these smokers will die from their use of tobacco.
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Youth Health
Canada's youth are at risk of developing preventable chronic diseases due to tobacco use, unhealthy eating, and physical inactivity, and environments that support these unhealthy behaviours.
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Quality of Life
An estimated 171,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed each year in Canadians. This number will increase because of aging and growth in the population (Canadian Cancer Statistics, 2008).
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Active Living & Healthy Eating
This program area is being developed more fully in collaboration with investigators from the University of Waterloo and other institutions. The website will be populated as plans are available.
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Evaluation Services
The "new" science of population intervention has a long history in evaluation. When it comes to solution-oriented studies, research and evaluation converge, even though the primary objective of participating scientists may differ.
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Training
At the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact, we’re building a pan-Canadian community of solution- and impact-oriented scientists who work effectively with policy and program leaders.
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