Postdoctoral Fellowships
Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Urban Health
Dr. Wendy Mendes was the Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI) at the
Biography
Wendy Mendes holds a PhD in urban geography from Simon Fraser University. Her research interests combine issues of local governance, policy and planning; social inclusion; sustainable development; and food policy. Dr. Mendes worked as a Social Planner for the City of Vancouver from 2001 to 2006, and taught at the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. She is a member of the American Planning Association Food Systems Planning Steering Committee; the Canadian Association of Food Studies; Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation’s Reference Group on the Healthy Food for All initiative; and past member of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Urban Agriculture Advisory Committee for UN-HABITAT World Urban Forum III.
Current research interests include coordinated social inclusion policies being formulated by Canadian municipalities; mechanisms for bridging decision-making gaps between health and social inclusion in urban planning and governance; and the role of inter-cultural learning in enabling organizational capacity building and policy transfer in the area of urban social development (with a focus on exchanges between Canada and Brazil).