For information on the Robert Caton Scholarship, the David Bates Scholarship and the BC CLEAR Fund, see Air Quality Research Funding. For earlier winners, see Robert Caton Scholarship Winners: 2004-2009.
Perry Hystad
Perry is a PhD candidate in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. He is supported by a UBC Bridge scholarship, a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research senior graduate trainee award, and a Canadian Institute of Health Research Frederick Banting and Best research scholarship. His dissertation focuses on air pollution and lung cancer risk in Canada, with an emphasis on social-environment interactions. His other research activities broadly cover spatial epidemiology and place and health. He is also a researcher with CAREX Canada, a national occupational and environmental carcinogen exposure surveillance initiative, and is developing GIS and Population Health and Spatial Epidemiology courses for Population Data BC.
Hind Sbihi
Hind is a second-year PhD student at the University of British Columbia in the School of Environmental Health where she is investigating air pollution exposure assessment methods for birth cohort studies of childhood asthma. She has an Industrial Engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique Montreal and an MSc in Occupational and Environmental Hygiene from the University of British Columbia. Her research interests are related to methods to measure exposure for epidemiological studies of children’s health in order to advance our understanding of environmental contaminants source-health effects link. She is currently involved in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal (CHILD) study, and is examining the contribution of traffic-related air pollution to indoor exposures.
Mandy M. Pui
Mandy is an MSc candidate in the Experimental Medicine program at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is interested in studying diesel exhaust-associated changes in innate immunity in human asthmatics at the Air Pollution Exposure Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Christopher Carlsten. She hopes that her research findings will help better equip knowledge translation researchers and policymakers in developing remediation strategies to protect susceptible populations exposed to ambient air pollution. She is also involved in the Collaborative Research and Training Experience - Atmospheric Aerosol Program (CREATE-AAP) at UBC, where she will be trained in other disciplines related to air quality, as well as share her research findings and passion in experimental medicine. She is training for her first triathlon and loves to travel during her spare time.
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