Diplômé de l'Université McGill en 1970 (Ph.D., 'Changements d'utilisation du sol en milieu urbain: le cas de Montréal'), il a fait ses études universitaires antérieures à l'Université de Montréal (Géographie) et à U.B.C. (géographie et psychologie). En début de carrière le professeur Foggin travaillait dans des postes de professeur, de chercheur et d'administrateur: De 1969-72, à l'UQAM; de 1972-74, à l'UQAC (directeur du département des sciences humaines); il prend ensuite de l'expérience dans la recherche à plein temps à l'INRS-Urbanisation (1 an) et dans la coopération internationale (3 ans dans le développement et l'aide humanitaire en Haïti) avant de venir au Département de géographie de l'Université de Montréal en 1979.
Pendant deux mandats (1982-86; 1990-94) il a été directeur du Département de géographie (de l'U de M, bien entendu). Il a été de 1997 à 2002, Secrétaire-trésorier de l'Association canadienne des géographes (ACG). Au début des années 80, le professeur Foggin s'était engagé dans un programme de recherche soutenue qui se poursuit jusqu'à maintenant. Il s'agit de recherches sur l'état de santé et des facteurs de risque des populations minoritaires et/ou géographiquement isolées; d'abord chez les Inuit et les Cris du nord du Québec (1981-1988), ensuite, les éleveurs semi-nomades de la Mongolie (extérieure) (1990 - 96), et plus récemment, chez le peuple Miao du sud-ouest de la Chine (Yunnan) (1997-2001). Ces dernières années son financement de recherche vient principalement du Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines du Canada (CRSH). Plus récemment (2001-2006), le professeur Foggin fait de la recherche subventionnée (CRSH) dans la même veine sur le Plateau tibétain de la Chine. Depuis 1987 il voyage en Chine au moins une fois chaque année. Plus récemment (2004 à 2007) il consacre du temps soutenu au travail de développement des soins de santé d'un nouvel ONG canadien (conservation et développement) (voir www.plateauperspectives.org).
SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE Dr. Peter M. Foggin
Honorary Professor of Geography (Cultural and Medical Geography) Université de Montréal Adjunct Professor University of Ottawa
Civic Status: Married to Beth (Stark) Foggin Born: 1 July, 1938, in China; Canadian citizen by birth
Home address: 202, 1929 – 154th Street South Surrey, BC V4A 4S2 Canada
Education: 1976 - Post-doctoral studies in International Development, University of Ottawa 1970 - Ph.D. in urban geography (transportation & land-use models), McGill University. 1967 - Licence-ès-lettres (Masters level) - Geography, Université de Montréal 1963 - B.A. (Geography, Psychology) University of British Columbia
Relief & Development Experience 2004-present - International Coordinator, Plateau Perspectives (China) www.plateauperspectives.org 1977-1979 - First national field director, World Vision International – Haiti 1976-1977 - Project monitor (Crusade against TB in Haïti), World Vision Canada 1975-1976 - Executive Director, Aide Olympique, NGO in Montréal (Olympic Games: Coordinating 35 organizations and 3 000 outreach volunteers, 1976 Olympics)
Community and/or public health in developing countries and regions
Haiti 1976-1979 with World Vision (tuberculosis prevention and treatment, nutrition) Haiti 2010 - Relief work following the 2010 earthquake near Port-au-Prince, in association with Global Aid Network (GAIN) Thailand 1980 (family planning research – see Journal of Tropical Geography) Northern Québec 1980-1987 (health status and risk factors of the Cree and Inuit)* China 1989-1990 (health status and risk factors project development – western China* Mongolia 1990-1995 – (health status and risk factors of semi-nomadic pastoralists)* China 1996-1999 (Yunnan province, health status and risk factors of the Miao people) * China 2001-2006 (mother-and-child health/MCH project on Tibetan Plateau) ** China 2004-2010 (International Coordinator for Plateau Perspectives)** China 1987-2014 (Over 35 times to China for field work of various kinds) China 2006 to present: Book project on the "Cultural Landscapes of the Miao of Southwest China" (particularly in Guizhou and Yunnan provinces
*The overall goal of all this applied research has been to gain the understanding needed to produce more effective programs of preventive health care for disadvantaged and/or isolated populations. **The over-arching goal of Plateau Perspectives is: Promoting conservation and community development in the Tibetan Plateau region of China and the surrounding highlands of Central Asia.
Academic experience
1984-2006 - Professeur titulaire (Full professor) , Dépt. de géographie, U. de Montréal 1979-1984 - Associate Professor, Département de géographie, Université de Montréal 1982-1986 - plus 1990-1994 (two mandates) - Director/Chair , Dépt. de géographie, U. de Montréal 1974-1975 - Associate Professor/Research, INRS-Urbanisation, Université du Québec 1972-1974 - Associate Professor and Chair, Dépt. des Sciences humaines, UQAC (Chicoutimi) 1969-1972 - Assistant Professor, Dépt.de géographie, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) 1963-1970 - Graduate student (masters and doctorate); producer of radio programs 1959-1963 - Teacher: elementary and high school (Penticton, White Rock and Surrey, B.C.) 1969-2014 - Specializations: urban geography, medical geography; international development International Experience:
China: 35 + field trips (survey research) over the past 27 years; Mongolia (5 times) Southeast Asia (video-photo-documenting all countries in the region, including Timor-Lorosae over a 10-yr period) Haiti (World Vision Canada project monitor,1976-78; Field Director 1977-1979; in 1981 a Haiti project evaluation for the NGO, World Concern; 2004 for WV-Haiti’s 25th anniversary)
Languages: English, French (teaching and research in French for over 30 years), Mandarin (intermediate, spoken)
Some recent and key publications:
Foggin, P. and Carrier, S. 2010‘The Miao of China: An emerging nationality.’ In Regional Minorities and Development in Asia. Edited by Huhua Cao et Elizabeth Morrell. Oxford & New York: Routledge (Routledge Contempory Asia Series), 139-156.
Cao, Huhua and Foggin, Peter (2009) (eds.) Inclusion and Harmony: Improving MutualUnderstanding of Development in Minority Regions. Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House.
Mocellin, Jérome and Foggin, Peter (2008) Health status and geographic mobility amongseminomadic pastoralists in Mongolia. Health and Place 14: 228-242.
Foggin, P., Torrance, M.E., Dorji, D, Xuri, W., Foggin, J.M., and Torrance, J. (2006) Assessment of the health status and risk factors of Kham Tibetan pastoralists in the alpine grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau. Social Science and Medicine 63 : 2512-2532.
Foggin, Peter (2005) La Mongolie: portrait d’une transition. Relations 705 : 28-29.
Foggin, P., Armijo-Hussein, N., Marigaux, C., Zhu, Hui and Liu, Zeyuan (2001) Risk factors and child mortality among the Miao in Yunnan, Southwest China. Social Science and Medicine 53:1683-1696.
Foggin, P., Shiirev-Adiya, T. and Foggin, J.M. (2000). Animal and human health among semi-nomadic herders of central Mongolia: Brucellosis and the bubonic plague in Ovorhangay. Nomadic Peoples 44: 148-168.
Foggin, P., Farkas, O., Shiirev-Adiya, S. and Chinbat, B. (1997). Health status and risk factors of seminomadic pastoralists in Mongolia : A geographical approach. Social Science and Medicine 44: 1623-1647.
Peter Foggin: Biography
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Peter Foggin completed his Ph.D. in 1970 at McGill University after having studied at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and at the Université de Montréal. His doctoral dissertation was in urban geography (modeling land use change in Montreal). He started teaching at the newly formed Université du Québec (Montréal; Chicoutimi) in 1969. However, during a three-year hiatus working in Haiti with World Vision, a humanitarian agency, he became intrigued by questions related to disease and preventive health care in a developing world context. Upon his return to Canada he joined the geography department of the Université de Montréal (U de M), which has remained his academic base from 1979 until the present. He was Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) from 1997 to 2002.
To facilitate his switch from urban to health geography he obtained funding to study the health status and risk factors of the Inuit and Cree of northern Quebec (1981-1987). This was the beginning of a 25-year pursuit of this issue in relation not only to native peoples in Canada but to geographically isolated populations in East Asia. One of his teaching passions is the human geography of China. During this period he was twice (1982-86 and 1990-94) the Chair of the Geography Department of U de M. Peter's current research deals with maternal and child health and sustainable community development in an area of the Tibetan Plateau in the south of Qinghai Province in western China. He has held four Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) research grants over the past fifteen years enabling him to carry out this type of work in Mongolia, Southwest China, and on the Tibetan Plateau. His most recent publication on this work (together with his colleagues) may be accessed from this website (articles). More recently, his focus has been the capacity-building healthcare work of a Canadian environmental protection and sustainable development NGO on the Tibetan Plateau (see www.plateauperspectives.org).
Summary: Dr. Peter Foggin, Honorary Professor, Department of Geography, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Peter's research interests include the health status and risk factors of geographically isolated populations and integrated, sustainable community development, moving into this field quite naturally through its health component. He is also currently Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa.
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