Martine Shareck, Ph.D. Public Health
I am a population health researcher interested in the creation of healthy, sustainable, and equitable cities and communities. I am currently a Banting postdoctoral fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada, working on a community-based mixed-methods evaluation of built environment interventions implemented in two tower neighbourhoods in Toronto: the Healthy Communities by Design project (read more here). Specifically, my project combines survey and go-along focus group data collected from youth and adults to explore if interventions that make recreational facilities and healthy food options available in lower income, ethnically-diverse neighbourhoods improve residents' perceived and real access to health-promoting resources, as well as to their physical activity, diet, and mental health. This research will contribute to population health and health equity by providing much needed evidence on the mechanisms linking the built environment to people's access to, and use of, health-promoting resources.
Prior to moving to Toronto I completed a CIHR funded postdoctoral fellowship at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with Dr. Steven Cummins in the Department of Social and Environmental Health Research. I analyzed data collected as part of the Olympic Regeneration in East London quasi-experimental study to better understand (1) how the availability of healthy and unhealthy food retailers in the home and school neighbourhoods of adolescents (11-15 yrs-old) influenced their food behaviours, and (2) whether ethnic inequalities in the residential fast-food environment contributed to ethnic inequalities in food behaviours.
I have a Ph.D. in Public Health & Health Promotion from the Université de Montréal School of Public Health (ESPUM). I am trained in the Environmental Sciences with a specialization in the ecological determinants of health (B.Sc. McGill University, 2006) and in Epidemiology and Community Health (M.Sc. Université de Montréal, 2008).
In line with my inter-disciplinary training, I aim to view issues of urban health equity under a holistic perspective. For my doctoral thesis (available here), I combined knowledge and tools from health promotion, geography, and sociology to study social inequalities in smoking among young adults living in Montreal, Canada. I provided conceptual and empirical insights into the integration of individuals' daily mobility in a definition of context that would be relevant for studying the influence that contextual exposures (such as exposure to tobacco retailers) have on social inequalities in smoking among young adults.
Prior to moving to Toronto I completed a CIHR funded postdoctoral fellowship at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with Dr. Steven Cummins in the Department of Social and Environmental Health Research. I analyzed data collected as part of the Olympic Regeneration in East London quasi-experimental study to better understand (1) how the availability of healthy and unhealthy food retailers in the home and school neighbourhoods of adolescents (11-15 yrs-old) influenced their food behaviours, and (2) whether ethnic inequalities in the residential fast-food environment contributed to ethnic inequalities in food behaviours.
I have a Ph.D. in Public Health & Health Promotion from the Université de Montréal School of Public Health (ESPUM). I am trained in the Environmental Sciences with a specialization in the ecological determinants of health (B.Sc. McGill University, 2006) and in Epidemiology and Community Health (M.Sc. Université de Montréal, 2008).
In line with my inter-disciplinary training, I aim to view issues of urban health equity under a holistic perspective. For my doctoral thesis (available here), I combined knowledge and tools from health promotion, geography, and sociology to study social inequalities in smoking among young adults living in Montreal, Canada. I provided conceptual and empirical insights into the integration of individuals' daily mobility in a definition of context that would be relevant for studying the influence that contextual exposures (such as exposure to tobacco retailers) have on social inequalities in smoking among young adults.
My Curriculum Vitae
Personal research funding
1. Shareck, M. Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (October 2017 – 2019).
2. Shareck, M. Postdoctoral Fellowship, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (October 2016 – 2017).
3. Shareck, M. Postdoctoral Fellowship, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (October 2014 – 2016).
4. Shareck, M. Doctoral Research Award, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (September 2008 – 2011).
2. Shareck, M. Postdoctoral Fellowship, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (October 2016 – 2017).
3. Shareck, M. Postdoctoral Fellowship, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (October 2014 – 2016).
4. Shareck, M. Doctoral Research Award, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (September 2008 – 2011).
