OEH Seminars
Time: Friday afternoons, 1:00 to 2:00 pm. Location: Room B151, SPPH Building, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, B.C.
The best of current research in the Occupational and Environmental Hygiene (OEH) field is presented at these seminars, which run weekly during the academic year. Attendance is mandatory for MSc OEH students.
You are welcome to join us online via Adobe Connect. Please see below for technical information about this process.
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Important Note
Presentations may contain provisional unpublished information and must NOT be distributed without explicit permission of the presenter.
Schedule
CURRENT OEH SEMINARS 2019-2020
Term One – September to December 2019
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| Sept 6 |
Dr. Chris McLeod
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| Sept 13 |
Angela Yao,
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TBA | Click here to view the webinar |
| Sept 20 |
Anya Keefe
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TBA | Click here to view the webinar |
| Sept 27 |
Jennie Christensen |
TBA | Click here to view the webinar |
| Oct 4 |
TBA |
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| Oct 11 |
Erin McDuffie
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| Oct 18 |
Practicum students present
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| Oct 25 |
Practicum students present
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| Nov 1 |
Bethany Hastie
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| Nov 8 |
Matt Schupler
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| Nov 15 |
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| Nov 22 |
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| Nov 29 |
Jeff Brook
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TBA |
Term two – January to April 2020
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| Jan 10 |
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| Jan 17 |
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| Jan 24 |
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| Jan 31 |
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| Feb 7 |
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| Feb 14 |
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| Feb 21 |
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Reading week Feb 18-21 | |
| Feb 28 |
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| Mar 6 |
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| Mar 13 |
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AIHA AGM Meeting For last years schedule see Link |
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| Mar 20 |
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| Mar 27 |
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| Apr 3 |
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Classes end April 8/2020 |
Past Seminars
2018-2019 Term Two - January to April 2019
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| January 4 |
No Seminar |
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| January 11 |
No Seminar |
Cascadia Conference https://www.spph.ubc.ca/about/cascadia/ |
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| January 18 | Dr. Anders Erickson | Disease assimilation: the loss of the healthy immigrant advantage over time with exposure to fine particulate matter | Click here to view recorded seminar |
| January 25 | Dr Hind Sbihi |
The role of microbiome and built environment on asthma development | Click here to view the webinar |
| February 1 | Jessica Yu, PhD Candidate | Mapping spatial patterns in vulnerability to climate change-related health hazards | Click here to view recorded seminar |
| February 8 |
Baytalan Greg, Interior Health – Community Health and Services Centre |
Occupational Health & Safety, Common Indoor Radon Levels and the New 2017 International Commission on Radiological Protection, Alpha Radiation to Lung Tissue Effective Dose Coefficient | Click here to view recorded seminar |
| February 15 | Dr. Andrew Clarke | Psychological Safety in Health Care Workplaces | Click here to view recorded seminar |
| February 22 |
No Seminar |
Reading Week |
No seminar |
| March 1 | Emily J. Rugel, M.P.H | Modeling exposure to natural spaces as a factor in mental health and social interaction across metro Vancouver | Click here to view recorded seminar |
| March 8 |
Sharon Provost PhD Candidate Michelle Naimi Research Coordinator |
Is it making a difference: Why, how, & for whom? A realist review of violence prevention education in healthcare |
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| March 15 | No Seminar | AIHABC - Annual General Meeting for further details click here |
No seminar |
| March 22 | Emily S. Acheson, MSc, PhD candidate, Dept of Geography, UBC |
Exploring links between deforestation and the 1999 outbreak of Cryptococcus gattii on Vancouver Island | Click here to view the webinar |
| March 29 | Kim McLeod, PhD student | Workplace Safety inspections in British Columbia | Click here to view the webinar |
2018-2019 Friday Seminars - Term One - September - December 2018
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| September 7 | Dr. Brian Ng | WorkSafe BC: How Physicians, Hygiene Officers, and Case Managers work together to manage a claim | Click here to view the webinar | |
| September 14 | Dr. Parveen Bhatti | A Target for Cancer Prevention Among Shift Workers | Click here to view the webinar | |
| September 21 | Dr. Yuhao Lu | People and Pixels | Click here to view recorded seminar | |
| September 28 | Dr. Ben Wheeler | Are greener (and bluer) cities really better for health? Interdisciplinary perspectives informing environment and public health policy” | Click here to view the webinar | |
| October 5 | Dr. Robert MacPherson | How does geography matter for return-to-work after work-related injury | Click here to view the webinar | |
| October 12 | Brian Campbell | Development, programs and initiatives of the BC Federation of Labour Occupational Health and Safety Centre | Click here to view the webinar | |
| October 19 | Dr. Ajay Pillarisetti (Candidate for UBC Assistant Professor position in Environmental Health) Postdoctoral Scholar Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley | Household Energy & Health In India and Beyond: Strengthening the Case for Clean Household Energy with Measurements and Modeling | Click here to view the webinar
Please click here for a survey evaluation for the presentation |
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| October 26 | Dr. Jana Hirsch (Candidate for UBC Assistant Professor position in Environmental Health) Assistant Research Professor, Urban Health Collective, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia | Planning for Health: Constructing Evidence for the Built Environment’s Influence on Health and Health Equity |
Click here to view the webinarPlease click here for a survey evaluation for the presentation |
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| November 2 |
Dr. Kate Weinberger (Candidate for UBC Assistant Professor position in Environmental Health) Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Public Health, Brown University |
Preventing heat-related morbidity and mortality in a warming world |
Click here to view the webinarPlease click here for a survey evaluation for the presentation |
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| November 9 | Dr. Lorien Nesbitt | Human faces, forest places: Urban forestry in multicultural cities |
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| November 16 | Dr. Hugh Davies | Surveillance for Occupational Exposures to antineoplastic Drug in Hospital Settings in Alberta and Minnesota | Click here to view recorded seminar | |
| November 23 | Leela Steiner, PhD Candidate National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health | Growing at Home: Health and Safety Concerns for Personal Cannabis Cultivation |
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2017-2018 OEH Seminars
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| January 12 | Andy Hong | Healthy Cities: Towards building healthier and smarter communities through urban planning and technology | Click here to view recorded seminar |
| January 19 | Bojosi Gamontle | Perspectives of Botswana policy-makers and healthcare workers towards Tuberculosis infection control and occupational health measures: An interpretive description study | Click here to view recorded seminar |
| January 26 | Noah Seixas | Defining Precarious Work | Click here to view recorded seminar |
| February 2 | Esther Maas | The Evaluation of a Standard Treatment for Back Pain and the Policy-Related Changes | Click here to view the webinar |
| February 9 | Jonathan Patz | Mitigating Climate Change: Greatest Public Health Opportunity of the 21st Century? | Click here to view recorded seminar |
| February 16 | Michael Brauer |
Current and future burden of disease from major air pollution sources in China and India |
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| February 23 | Talk Cancelled |
READING WEEK |
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| March 2 |
Prescillia Percy Chua |
Craft Brewing: Advancing Health and Safety in British Columbia Breweries |
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| March 9 | Darrell Skinner | Efficacy of Prophylactic Taping in Managing Tendinitis of the Thumb in Tree Planters | Click here to view recorded seminar |
| March 16 | France St-Hilaire | Psychological Health at Work: Beyond Concepts, the day-to-day Practices | Recorded seminar not available |
| March 23 | Cancelled for AIHA AGM | ||
| March 30 | Good Friday | EASTER BREAK | |
| April 6 | Marissa Baker | The use of metabolomics for exposure assessment in occupational health: linking to the exposome? | Click here to view the webinar |
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| September 8 | Jesse Cooper | The role of hospital toilets in microbial dissemination and the effectiveness of ultraviolet C irradiation | Not available |
| September 15 | Chris McLeod | Developing an effective occupational health and safety management system. A provincial, national, and international perspective. | Click here to view the recorded seminar |
| September 22 | Mieke Koehoorn | Does gender matter to occupational health and safety? | Not available |
| September 29 | Matthew Wagstaff | Monitoring Residential Woodsmoke in BC | Click here to view the recorded seminar |
| October 6 | Xibiao Ye | Epidemiology of hematologic cancers: the role of environment, occupation, and medications | Click here to view the recorded seminar |
| October 13 | Byron Gates | Engineered Nanomaterials in the Workplace Environment: A Perspective | Not available |
| October 20 | Anders Erickson | How low to go? Assessing the health effects of low levels of air pollution. The Mortality Air Pollution Associations in Low Exposure environments (MAPLE) project. | Click here to view the recorded seminar |
| October 27 | Karen Bartlett | Indoor air quality and health in Canadian First Nations communities | Click here to view the recorded seminar |
| November 3 | Carolyn Sparrey | The effect of environmental exposure on the performance of fall arrest systems | Click here to view the recorded seminar |
| November 10 | Sara Adar | From Tailpipe to Windpipe: Characterizing the Health Impacts of Pollution from Motor Vehicles | Not available |
| November 17 | Prabjit Barn | A Randomized Controlled Trial of HEPA Filter Air Cleaner Use and Fetal Growth in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia | Click here to view the recorded seminar |
| November 24 | Abigail Overduin | Ergonomic Case Studies: Successes & Challenges | Click here to view the recorded seminar |
Technical Information
Traditional computers:
- Mozilla Firefox (v. 3 or above) or
- Microsoft Internet Explorer (v.7 or above)
- Adobe Flash Player is also required (download)
iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad:
- Download Adobe Connect Mobile app from the Apple App Store
Android phones and tablets:
- Download Adobe Connect Mobile app from the Android Market
Please visit this Adobe page to ensure system requirements are compatible between your device (desktop computer or mobile device) and Adobe Connect.
Logging into Adobe Connect seminar:
- Login to Adobe Connect using the Click to View address for the seminar you are interested in viewing
- Enter as a Guest - please type your FIRST and LAST NAME
- Click on "Enter room"
- You will be placed into a queue, awaiting approval from the seminar assistant
Communicating in Adobe Connect:
- You will be able to view the presentation, hear the presenter, as well as text-chat with the seminar assistants in the chat box at the bottom of the screen.
- You will not be able to ask verbal questions.
- If you have a question for the presenter, please type it into the chat screen and it will be read aloud during the Q&A portion of the seminar.
We cannot diagnose remote technical issues on the day of the seminar.
However, we are happy to confer with you or your IT support staff regarding our configuration ahead of time. Please contact spph.it@ubc.ca at least three business days before the next seminar.
Adobe Connect Technical Support: on-line or by phone 1-800-422-3623.