You are invited! Dr. Kaylee Byers will be giving a presentation for the position of Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Global Environmental Health in the School of Population and Public Health on Monday, April 14 from 10-11 AM (PDT). There will be an informal lunch for SPPH students, faculty and staff to interact with the candidate from 12-12:45 PM (PDT) on the same day.
Presentation: More than Human: Partnerships and Pathways for a Healthier Planet
Date and Time: Monday, April 14 from 10-11 AM (PDT)
Location:
In-person: Room B104, School of Population and Public Health, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z3
Online: Zoom
If attending on Zoom, please register using the link below to receive the Zoom details.
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/lzs_SXMcTNm0I4M5i1qvBw
About the speaker:
Dr. Kaylee Byers is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University where she teaches courses in global health, health communications, and One Health. In addition, she is the Deputy Director of British Columbia’s node of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, a Senior Scientist with the Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society, and a Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar. Dr. Byers is a settler scholar of European ancestry, with roots in Canada’s maritime (Nova Scotia) and prairie (Alberta) provinces. She has over a decade of experience working in the field of One Health, which recognizes the interconnected health of people, animals, and the environment.
Dr. Byers received an MSc in Evolutionary Biology (University of Alberta) and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (University of British Columbia) where she studied the physical and mental health impacts of urban rats on underserved communities. As part of this process, she became particularly interested in environmental management, and how risk perception influences community participation in disease surveillance and risk mitigation activities. Today, she leads the One Health, Human dimensions and Implementation (OH-HI) Science CoLab, which aims to enhance local, national, and global capacity to better detect, manage, and mitigate health threats at the nexus of human, animal, and environmental health. Her team integrates quantitative (e.g., spatial, genomic) and qualitative (e.g., interviews, focus groups) data to better understand the complexity of emerging health threats. To ensure that research findings are relevant and actionable, she collaborates closely with agricultural communities, healthcare practitioners, First Nations, municipal and provincial governments, and international partners.
Dr. Byers has extensive experience in knowledge mobilization and is particularly interested in building programs that integrate innovative and creative forms of knowledge sharing and co-creation. To share research broadly, she writes articles for the public in The Conversation and has been featured in media outlets such as The Nature of Things, Hakai Magazine, The New York Times, Global News and the CBC. Outside of research she hosts Genome BC’s genomics podcast Nice Genes! and Nerd Nite Vancouver, a science seminar series which she co-founded in 2014.