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How colonialism plays out in park practices and how we can work together to embed reconciliation and decolonization.
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Research programming planning officer, CIUSSS du Centre Sud de Montréal
Anne Pelletier has worked at the Direction régionale de santé publique of the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal (Regional Public Health Department of the Integrated University Centre for Health and Social Services) since 2008, in the Environnement urbain et saines habitudes de vie (Urban Environment and Healthy Living) department. She holds a Master’s and a B.A. in Kinesiology from Université de Montréal. Her interests include the health impacts of active transportation and the design of active cities. In particular, she contributed to the development of the draft versions of PPASSAGE, a tool that can be used to assess walkability. She has led and contributed to a number of research projects linking public health and urban planning, one of the most recent of which addresses the issue of the accessibility of Montréal parks.