OEH Theme Meeting

Rongrong will defend her MSc(OEH) thesis: "ASSESSMENT OF THE TEMPORAL STABILITY OF LAND USE REGRESSION MODELS FOR TRAFFIC-RELATED AIR POLLUTION" Oct 5th Room details TBA.

An interactive 1-day symposium on the linkages between urban form, travel behaviour, chronic disease, and health care costs. What are the health benefits of active transportation? How can municipal and regional planning and health agencies quantify and monetize these benefits?

Title: Asbestos and asbestos-related diseases in Canada: an oncologist's perspective

Speaker: Christopher Lee, MD
Medical Oncologist, BC Cancer Agency

UBC is internationally recognized for its contributions to the creation of “Population Health” as an interdisciplinary field concerned with the powerful role of a host of non-medical determinants of health, development, and well-being across the life course, particularly social and economic factors. The Population Health Speakers Series aims to bring together faculty, students, practitioners and policymakers interested in these issues. The series will have a particular focus on the social sciences and their intersections with other disciplines within population health. Each monthly meeting will feature an invited scholar who is conducting cutting-edge research integrating innovative theoretical perspectives and/or developing novel methods for use in advancing population health science and improving practice and policy. The speaker's presentation and subsequent "brainstorming" dialogue with the audience will be aimed to appeal to a broad range of interests and have great potential for informing the ideas, research, and practices of faculty, students, and local agency representatives.

Title: Long-term exposure to air pollution and lung cancer risk in Canada: evidence from a national case-control study

Speaker: Perry Hystad, MSc, PhD candidate
UBC School of Population and Public Health

Pearl will defend her thesis entitled, "British Columbia's outsourced hospital workers: an occupational health and safety perspective."
Chair and external examiner: Dr. Kay Teschke
Examination committee: Drs. George Astrakianakis and Koehoorn.

Rehema will defend her thesis, titled:
"Community Gardening Practices, Motivations, Experiences and Perceived Health Effects."

Examination chair: Dr. Sarah Henderson
Thesis committee: Drs. Anne-Marie Nicol, Winnie Chu and Karen Bartlett

PhD Topic: Work-related cardiovascular risk factors among professional firefighters in British Columbia, Canada: an investigation of noise, carbon monoxide and cortisol secretion

Students of SPPH 598 report case studies based on their summer work placements -- posters will be displayed in the south hallway of the third floor LPC 2206 East Mall and oral presentations will be given.

10th Annual meeting of the Canadian Rural Health Research Society and concurrent meeting of Public Health in Agricultural and Rural Ecosystems (PHARE). Plenary sessions by Drs. Aleck Ostry and Clyde Hertzman, Roundtables on food security and antimicrobial resistant bacteria in food products. Scientific themes: health at the rural/urban interface; aboriginal and northern health; determinants of health, more ...

Presented by: Gina Ogilvie, Medical Director, Clinical Prevention Services, BC Centre for Disease Control & Associate Professor, UBC

SPPH Faculty Meeting

Title: Ergonomics standards and guidance: art and science

Speaker: Dan Robinson, PhD, CCPE
Robinson Ergonomics

Scientific Director of the CIHR-Institute of Population Health will be visiting the University of British Columbia as part of a series of visits to various universities (including Schools of Public Health) across Canada.

Objectives:

To increase awareness of current and upcoming CIHR funding opportunities in the fields of population and public health.

To discuss how CIHR can optimally support interdisciplinary research excellence in the fields of population and public health.

PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES IN MEETING MDGS AND SECURING ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: WHAT WILL WE DO AFTER 2015?
Jean Lebel, Director, Agriculture and Environment,
International Development Research Centre
5-6:30 pm, Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Green College, Coach House

Presented by: Murray Hodgson, Professor of Acoustics, Acoustics & Noise Research Group, SPPH and MECH, UBC

Title: Temporal stability of land use regression models

Speaker: Rongrong Wang, BASc, MSc student
UBC School of Population and Public Health

Theme: Come dressed as a Public Health threat
Trick or Treat: At any door that has a pumpkin on it - You MUST be in full costume to trick or treat!
Need a pumpkin to post on your door? Stop by the lunch room.