{"id":330,"date":"2018-06-15T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/?page_id=330"},"modified":"2025-04-29T13:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:58:45","slug":"environmental-health","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/environmental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Environmental Health\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

Health and the environment is one of the foundational topics in our lab. With expertise in spatial analytics, data analysis, and the social determinants of health, our lab takes an ecosocial<\/a> approach to understanding the interrelationships between health outcomes, and environmental and social factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our current work contributes to the Spit for Science<\/a> project with the Schachar & Crosbie Lab<\/a> at the Sick Kids Research Institute<\/a>. The Spit for Science<\/strong> projects aim to understand the genetics of psychiatric disorders by collecting quantitative data from a youth population aged 6-17 years old, in addition to non-invasive collection of DNA saliva samples with Oragene\u2022DNA. One of the most exciting findings from the foundational Spit for Science I was identifying the first genome-wide loci for OCD traits using a genome-wide association study (GWAS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n