Publications

  • Kristjansson, E. for the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study Team. From Evidence to Action: Research Translation of the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study. Invited presentation at the Melbourne School of Public Health. April 23, 2013.
  • Kristjansson, E. for the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study Team. Location, Location, Location. Improving the Health of your Ottawa Neighbourhood. Invited presentation at Café Scientifique, April 11, 2013.
  •  Kristjansson, E. Urban Landscapes: Health or Health inequalities. Fireside Chat (webinar). June 15, 2012. 
  • Kristjansson, E. For the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study Team. Food Access in Ottawa. Presented at the Ottawa Public Health Forum on Food accessibility. Nov. 19, 2012.
  • Kristjansson E. Betsy “Where I Live, How I Live: From Evidence on Neighbourhood Environments, Health, and Health Inequalities to Action”,  4th International Conference of Community Psychology, Barcelona, Spain, June 2012
  • Kristjansson E. “Researcher-Practitioner Health Equity Workshop: Bridging the Gap”, National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Population and Public Health (CIHR-IPPH) Conference, Toronto ON, 15 Feb 2012.
  • Kristjansson E.  “Where I live; how I live – From evidence on neighbourhood environments, health, and health inequalities to action”, 10th International Conference on Urban Health,  1-5 Nov 2011.
  • Parenteau, M. -P., & Sawada, M. C. The modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) in the relationship between exposure to NO2 and respiratory health. International Journal of Health Geographics, 10:58, 1-15, 2011.
  • Prince, S., Tremblay, M., Prud’homme, D., Colley, R., Sawada, M, Kristjansson, E. Neighbourhood differences in objectively measured physical activity, sedentary time and body mass index. Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, 1(3), 182-189, 2011
  • Prince, S.A., Kristjansson, E.A., Russell, K., Billette, J.-M., SAWADA, M., Ali, A., Tremblay, M.S., Prud’homme, D. A multilevel analysis of neighbourhood built and social environments and adult self-reported physical activity and body mass index in Ottawa, Canada. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 8(10), 3953-3978, 2011.
  • Mosley, B., Sawada, M., Kristjansson, E., Riva, M., Billette, J.-M. “Using GIS & SVM for dasymetric mapping of rural communities for synthetic estimation in Ottawa”, Hampton Inn Convention Centre, Ottawa ON, 19 Oct 2010
  • Parenteau, M.-.P, & Sawada, M. C. The role of spatial representation in the development of a LUR model for Ottawa, Canada.  Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, 1-13, 2011.
  • Prince, S.A., Kristjansson, E.A., Russell, K., Billette, J.-M., Sawada, M., Ali, A., Tremblay, M.S., Prud’homme, D. Relationships between neighborhoods, physical activity, and obesity: A multilevel analysis of a large Canadian city. Obesity, (in press oi:10.1038/oby.2011.392), 2012.
  • M.-P. Parenteau, M. Sawada, Sam Herold, Elizabeth A. Kristjansson, R. Labonte, M. Calhoun, S. Leclair, V. Runnels, A. Musiol, R. Mawby, N. Muhajarine, D. Salisbury, Amira Ali, Marguarite Keeley, Ian Cross, Cliff Gazee  A Participatory Geomatics Approach to Defining Health-Relevant Neighbourhoods in Ottawa, Canada. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. 84 No. 6: 856 (DOI: 10.1007/s11524-007-9234-y)
  • Kristjansson, E., Hole, D. 2010. “The Ottawa Neighbourhood Study: Past, present, and future. A glimpse at the wealth of data this study provides”. Why Place Still Matters: Community Forum, Ron Kolbus Center, Ottawa ON, 9 March 2010.
  • Kristjansson, E., Calhoun, M., Leclair, S. Russell, K., Bilette, J.M., Sawada, M., He, J., McKinnon, J., Prince-Ware, S., and Hole, D. 2010. “Neighbourhood and individual characteristics that predict healthy eating and overweight/obese Body Mass Index”. Why Place Still Matters: Community Forum, Ron Kolbus Center, Ottawa ON, 9 March 2010.
  • Katherine Russell, Amira Ali (presenting), Elizabeth Kristjansson, Jean-Michel Billette, Mike Sawada.  “Preventative health care, socio-economic status and individual health outcomes in Ottawa Neighbourhoods”. Why Place Still Matters: Community Forum, Ron Kolbus Center, Ottawa ON, 9 March 2010.
  • Kristjansson, E., Sawada, M., Russell, K., Ali, A., He, J., McKinnon, J.,Hole, D., Steeves, P., Palozzi, K., Leclair, S., and Calhoun, Ml. “Neighbourhood Advantage, Social Determinants, and Health Outcomes – The Ottawa Neighbourhood Study”. Invited Presentation at “The InSPQ Deprivation Index: Applications in Research, Policy and Practice.” Canadian Institute of Health Information Workshop, Montreal QC, 23 Sept 2009,
  • Parenteau, M.-P., Sawada, M., Kristjansson, E.A., Calhoun, M., Leclair, S., Labonté, R., Runnels, V., Musiol, A., and Herold, S.  Development of Neighborhoods to Measure Spatial Indicators of Health. URISA Journal, 20(2), 43-55, 2008.
  • Parenteau, M.-P., Sawada, M., Kristjansson, E.A., Labonte, R.  “A geomatics approach to Mapping the relationship between inequalities in neighborhood quality and health disparities”. Integrating GIS & CAMA Conference,  Las Vegas NV 4-7 March 2007,
  • Prince S.A., Kristjansson E., Russell K., Ali A., Prud’homme D., Tremblay M., Sawada M. “Built and Social Determinants of Adult Physical Activity, Overweigth and Obesity in City of Ottawa Neighbourhooods”. Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics National Student Conference, Ottawa ON  23-24 May 2009.
  • Russell, K., Ali, A., Kristjansson, E., Sawada, M., He, J., McKinnon, J., and Hole, D. 2009 “The Ottawa Neighbourhood Study: Neighbourhood disparities in the determinants of health in Ottawa”. Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics/Association of Public Health Epidemiologists, APHEO/CSEB Conference, Ottawa, May 25-28, 2009.