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Meghan Winters is an epidemiologist with a focus on the intersection of health, transportation, and city design. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia in 2011. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility, she studied older adults’ mobility in relation to the built environment. Dr. Winters has been with the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University since July 2011. Her research includes knowledge exchange activities with local governments and health authorities, emphasizing the built environment's role in public health. Dr. Winters's primary research interests encompass non-motorized travel, physical activity, mobility, cycling, pedestrian injuries, age-friendly city design, intervention studies, and natural experiments. She engages in spatial analyses of health outcomes related to transportation and has led various projects, advocating for safe and healthy urban living. Dr. Winters is also committed to training the next generation of researchers and is currently recruiting graduate and undergraduate students for research projects related to the built environment and health.
Department of Philosophy