PopNB aims to characterize New Brunswick’s demographics by analyzing open-source data. With these analyses, we hope to inform data-driven policy for government and community stakeholders. PopNB operated this summer with the help of Dr. Ted McDonald, the Director of NB-IRDT and the principal investigator for the project, and Madeleine Gorman-Asal, PopNB’s student mentor. We explored the implications of New Brunswick’s aging population by first conducting a literature review to gain a solid understanding of the current scope of NB’s aging problem before beginning our analysis of Statistics Canada data.
Read moreBoostNB: The Future is In Our Hands – BoostNB’s Economic Indicators for the Province of New Brunswick
This summer, our student-led team (Tashi Dorji, Sandra Rafeh, and Caroline Pietroski, all third-year undergraduate students in Economics) were hired by the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data, and Training (NB-IRDT) to participate as student researchers in the 2021 Pathways to Professions (P2P) program and comprise the BoostNB team for the summer of 2021. P2P is a 13-week experiential learning program developed by NB-IRDT that allows post-secondary students to work as part of a research team while attending sessions on research methods and job readiness skills.
Read moreConnectNB: Creating Networking Opportunities for Student Researchers
For the summer of 2021, our small student-led team worked on a research project called ConnectNB through the Pathways to Professions (P2P) program at the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training (NB-IRDT). P2P is a 13-week experiential learning program that provides post-secondary students with an opportunity to work on NB-relevant research projects while completing workplace and professional development training. The goal of the ConnectNB research stream was to create a networking program to provide experiential education opportunities to post-secondary students in NB.
Read moreSocial Determinants of Health, Indigenous Communities and COVID-19: How has physical environment and access to healthcare influenced Indigenous health & wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic?
“The rise of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has exposed many barriers to healthcare experienced by Indigenous people and emphasized the “Social Determinants of Health.” COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted marginalized Indigenous communities, resulting in poorer overall health outcomes. This includes Indigenous peoples who live on-reserve or off-reserve and who might be status or non-status.”
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