Tag: Enviromental Health

CH&E Seminar Series – Dr. Kelvin Fong (Sept 2023)

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We are looking forward to attend our colleague, Dr. Kelvin Fong’s presentation in the Dalhousie University Department of Community Health and Epidemiology‘s Seminar Series on September 13th at 12pm AST (11am EST). Dr. Fong’s presentation is entitled, “How does the Environment Contribute to Health in Atlantic Canada?”  Dr. Fong is an assistant professor at Dalhousie University in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and cross-appointed in Community Health and Epidemiology. In 2022, they established the Laboratory for Environmental Assessment and Population Health (LEAPH), which focuses on environmental health disparities. For more information, including how to attend the seminar, please refer to: https://events.dal.ca/event/2364-champe-seminar-series.

CIHR Environments and Health Signature Initiative Research Summit 2023

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CanPath Executive Director, Dr. John McLaughlin and co-National Scientific Director, Dr. Philip Awadalla at the Environments & Health Research Summit in a participatory panel on Strengthening Canada’s Environments & Health Research Profile. Dr. Awadalla presented on the impact of genes and environment on metabolic disease from Day 1. Check out the recording: https://bit.ly/40omRr3 Background: “The CIHR Environments and Health Signature Initiative Research Summit is a two-day event that will take stock of knowledge that has been produced and shared through CIHR’s Environments and Health Signature Initiative, and will provide research teams with hands-on coaching to improve the communication, translation and exchange of that knowledge. It will also facilitate a dialogue between researchers, policy makers, and knowledge users with the goal of outlining pathways for environments and health research to move in the future to strengthen Canada’s position as an international leader in interdisciplinary environments and health research.”