Meghan Winters
Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
CIHR Applied Public Health Chair in Gender and Sex in Healthy Cities
Researcher, Centre for Aging Smart, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
Founder & Lead, Cities, Health, and Active Transportation Lab
Meghan Winters is a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. She leads the Cities, Health, and Active Transportation Lab (CHATR Lab), with a research focus on how city design impacts mobility, safety, and health, and on equity considerations within cities’ policies and plans. She and her team work with decision-makers and community groups at the intersection of health, urban planning, and transportation to generate actionable evidence and tools to shape livable, sustainable, and equitable cities. With her PHAC/CIHR Applied Public Health Chair, Meghan is building out the REACH-Cities (REsearch and ACtion for Healthy Cities) program, which aims to promote research, tools, and partnerships that foster increased gender and social equity in our cities.
Meghan leads interdisciplinary and intersectoral teams across the country working in the healthy cities space, such as the INTERACT team, and CapaCITY/E. She has been recognized with the CIHR IPPH’s Trailblazer Award, as an SFU Distinguished Professor, and was a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar.
Out of the office, Meghan aims to spend the maximum time outside, biking, camping, picnicking, and exploring with her family in tow.