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Honorary Adjunct Lecturer, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney

Emily Rugel is an honorary adjunct lecturer at the University of Sydney, where her work explores health-promoting community design across the lifespan with the aim of developing evidence that can be embedded in sustainability plans and integrated in policies that advance equity. She received her doctorate from the University of British Columbia, where she developed a regional model of access to natural spaces and applied it to prescription and health-survey data to clarify pathways linking urban nature to social ties and mental health. In addition to a Ph.D., she holds a Master of Public Health and a B.A. in Journalism, but firmly believes in the acquisition of knowledge through chance encounters as well as scientific investigation.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Honorary adjunct lecturer, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
  • 2022–2022
    Postdoctoral research fellow, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia
  • 2020–2022
    Postdoctoral research fellow, Simon Fraser University, Faculty of Health Sciences
  • 2020–2021
    Visiting researcher, WARC, University of Sydney
  • 2019–2019
    Postdoctoral research fellow, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia

Education

  • 2019 
    University of British Columbia, Population and Public Health