SOCIALEXPOSOME

The Social Exposome Cluster influences policies and practices that address health disparities by bringing together experts and data across disciplines to uncover the relationships among the cellular, environmental, and social factors that impact health and well-being across the lifecourse... The cluster facilitates the collaboration between researchers, health care practitioners, trainees, and knowledge users to examine the social and environmental factors (and interactions amongst factors) that have lasting impacts on health and well-being and the biological processes in the body by which they do so (referred to as "biological embedding"). The ultimate goal is to use this knowledge to develop and implement policies and interventions to reduce disparities and optimize health and well-being for all people in Canada and abroad... In UNICEF's recent Report Card that assessed child well-being, Canada ranked only 30 out of 38 high income countries. Despite being the 5th most prosperous..

Primary location: Vancouver Canada