Occupational & Environmental Health Seminars

Photo: Tree planter interviewed by research staff about exposures & health status.

Time:
Fridays 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Location:
SPPH Building, Room B151, 2206 East Mall, UBC Campus, Vancouver, BC
*Live Online
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*Supported in part by funding from WorkSafeBC.
Certification Maintenance Points:
ROHs, CIHs, CRSPs, and PHIs / EHOs: See here for information on certification maintenance points.
We can issue a letter of attendance, but only by request in writing at the end of each seminar year (i.e. after the last seminar in April).

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January - April 2013

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Date Click Link Below to add the event to your calendar	Speaker	Title	View Seminar Online Click link below
January 4	Kathleen McLean, MPH Student, Simon Fraser University	Mapping calls to the British Columbia Drug and Poison Information Centre	View archived recording
January 11	Elaine Fuertes, PhD Student, UBC School of Population and Public Health	Allergic rhinitis: the environment, genetics, and how they interact	View archived recording
January 18	Sarah Henderson, PhD, Environmental Health Scientist, BC Centre for Disease Control	Cause and effect: the Lower Mainland hot weather event of 2009 and its ongoing implications	View archived recording
January 25	Michelle Riedlinger, PhD, University of the Fraser Valley Jackie Rea, PhD, University of British Columbia	Communicating radiation risk and the Internet: what can we learn from the Fukushima nuclear incident?	View archived recording
February 1	Abderrachid Zitouni, PhD, Provincial Radiation Specialist, BC Centre for Disease Control	Exposure of workers and the population to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields	View archived recording
February 8	Hind Sbihi, MSc, PhD Student, UBC School of Population and Public Health	Opportunities and Challenges in Assessing Exposure to Traffic Related Air Pollution for birth cohort studies	View archived recording
February 15	Dan Costa, ScD, National Program Director for Air Research, US Environmental Protection Agency	How health science “stacked-up” to clear the air	View archived recording
February 22	READING WEEK		No Seminar
March 1	Joanne Stares, MSc, Public Health Officer, Public Health Agency of Canada	Children’s blood lead levels from a biomonitoring study in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador	View archived recording
March 8	Jeanne Sears, PhD, RN, Senior Research Scientist, University of Washington	Use of the Washington State Trauma Registry for occupational health services research	View PDF
March 15	AGM for BC-Yukon Chapter of the AIHA		No Seminar
March 22	Meghan Winters, PhD, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University	The built environment and health: are our neighbourhoods good places to grow old?	View PDF
March 29	GOOD FRIDAY		No Seminar
April 5	Chang-Chaun Chan, PhD, Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University	Air pollution and health effects of long-range transported Asian dust storms in Taipei, Taiwan	Click to view

September - December 2012

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A printable version of this schedule is available here.

Date	Speaker	Title	View Seminar Online Click link below
September 7	Angela Yao, MSc Student, UBC School of Population & Public Health	Mitigating impacts from wildfires: Evaluation of a wildfire smoke forecast tool for public health protection	View archived recording
September 14	Alan Whitehead, President & CEO, Radon Environmental Management	Radon potential mapping in Canada: Essential tools for risk communication	View archived recording
September 21	Catherine Trask, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan	A long row to hoe: Meeting the challenge of musculoskeletal disorders in agriculture	View presentation slides
September 28	David Diaz Sanchez, PhD, Chief, Clinical Research Branch, US Environmental Protection Agency	The role of clinical studies on air pollution for informing decisions on Air Quality Standards	View archived recording
October 5	Joanne Edwards, MPH, CPHI(C), Senior Human Health Risk Assessment Specialist, BC Ministry of Health	Characteristics of small water systems that influence their likelihood of being on drinking water advisories	Archived recording no longer available
October 12	Roland Hubaux and Victor Martinez, Post-doctoral Fellows, BC Cancer Agency Research Centre	The impact of environment on cancer: A focus on radon and arsenic (PDF)	Archived recording no longer available
October 19	Marie O'Neill, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Public Health is unable to come to Vancouver. The new seminar speakers are from the BC Centre for Disease Control: Lorraine McIntyre, MSc, Food Safety Specialist Sion Shyng, B.Sc. (Agr.), P.Ag. Food Safety/Dairy Plant Specialist Maria Peters, Meat Safety Specialist	Xtremely Large Foods recall and E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak in Canada, 2012	Archived recording
October 26	Lorraine McIntyre, MSc, Food Safety Specialist, BC Centre for Disease Control	Policy recommendations based on food safety assessments	View PDF
November 2	Chris McLeod, PhD, Assistant Professor, UBC School of Population & Public Health	Improving health and safety: The role of leading indicators	View archived recording
November 9	Daniel Song, MSc student, School of Population & Public Health	Occupational noise exposure and the risk of diabetes, arthritis, and cardiovascular disease	View archive recording
November 16	Ed Chessor, MBA, PEng, Adjunct Professor, UBC School of Population & Public Health	Bringing the Doublemask to Canada: The obstacle course	View archived recording
November 23	Drew Ross, MSc, Manager, Health and Safety, City of Vancouver	Genie in a bottle: Resolving airborne trichloramine exposure with UV water treatment systems	View archived recording
November 30	Speaker changed to: Bianca Malouf, SPPH MSc Candidate	Effects of a controlled diesel exhaust exposure on airway oxidative stress in humans: analysis of exhaled breath condensate	View archived recording