WEBINAR
Residential Mobility and Multi-Domain Environmental Exposures in Canada: Building an Analytical Resource for Environmental Health Disparities Research
Presented by
Toyib Olaniyan
Thursday, November 19, 2026
12:00pm - 1:00pm ET
This seminar introduces the Residential Mobility Exposome File (ReMEF), a newly developed analytical resource linking long-term residential postal code histories to multi-domain environmental exposures — air pollution, built and green space, and thermal stress — over up to 25 years, within the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC).
The presentation begins with an overview of the file's construction and a snapshot of the cohort profile, highlighting its potential to support natural experiments that leverage residential mobility to examine cumulative, multi-domain exposures and disparities over time, including their relationship to population-level health outcomes. Two ongoing applications of the ReMEF will be presented.
The first, an environmental justice application, explores differential ambient air pollution exposure trajectories among racialized and non-racialized populations in Canada. The second, a core environmental epidemiology application, examines multi-domain environmental exposures and non-accidental mortality, using residential mobility as a quasi-experimental design.
Together, these applications illustrate the value of the ReMEF as a foundation for future collaborative research in environmental health disparities, exposure trajectory analysis, and mortality outcomes research.
Toyib Olaniyan
Speaker
Toyib Olaniyan (Olan) is a Research analyst with Statistics Canada. His research focuses on environmental epidemiology where he uses large population-based national data to generate insights on health equity and environmental health, leveraging nuanced analytical methodology to answer pertinent research questions.
Leanne Findlay
Moderator
Leanne Findlay is a Principal Researcher with Statistics Canada. Her work focuses on child and youth health, healthy development, mental health, early learning and child care, and the use of linked administrative and survey data to advance population health research. Leanne’s research has examined topics including Indigenous child health, environmental exposures, developmental outcomes, mental health supports for youth, and the role of child care and early learning environments in healthy development.
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Thursday, November 19, 2026
12:00pm - 1:00pm ET
