The Occupational and Environmental Health (OEH) seminar series is supported by the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Public Health Ontario, the Occupational Cancer Research Centre, and the Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease.
Presentations from the 2018-2019 series are below. For upcoming seminars, please visit our events page. Contact ocrc@occupationalcancer.ca to sign up for the mailing list.
2018-2019 Seminars
April 5, 2019 – Challenges in accommodating mental and physical health conditions: What workplace parties are saying
Monique Gignac, Institute for Work & Health/University of Toronto
March 22, 2019 – Can we improve air pollution estimates when extending land-use regression models to adjacent cities or backward in time?
Kerolyn Shairsingh, University of Toronto
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March 8, 2019 – Sun Safety – at work, home and play
Thomas Tenkate, Ryerson University
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February 22, 2019 – When pigs’ bacteria fly: the evolution and spread of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in regions of dense industrial hog production in North Carolina, U.S.
Sarah Rhodes, University of North Carolina
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February 8, 2019 – E-waste: The Unintended Consequence of our Digital Revolution
Miriam Diamond, University of Toronto
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January 25, 2019 – Case report: Environmental exposure to arsenic
Vincent Spilchuk, Public Health Ontario
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January 11, 2019 – Meeting the challenges of occupational disease surveillance in Ontario
Paul Demers, Occupational Cancer Research Centre
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December 7, 2018 – Perspectives on mitigating exposure to engineered nanomaterials in the workplace
Pat Rasmussen, Health Canada/University of Ottawa
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November 30, 2018 – Water, Environment and Health: The impact of the open dump in Brasilia-DF, Brazil
Vanessa Resende Nogueira Cruvinel, University of Brasilia
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November 23, 2018 – Asbestos-related lung cancer: An unrecognized health hazard
Christine Oliver, University of Toronto
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November 9, 2018 – Current drinking water quality challenges: Morbidity and mortality associated with building water systems
Jennifer Clancy, Environmental Science, Policy & Research Institute
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October 26, 2018 – Does climate modify the relationship between neighbourhood walkability and physical activity?
Justin Thielman, Public Health Ontario
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September 28, 2018 – The economic burden of lung cancer and mesothelioma due to occupational and paraoccupational asbestos exposure
Emile Tompa, Institute for Work & Health
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Click the links below to see presentations from the previous seminar series:
2013-2014 — 2014-2015 — 2015-2016 — 2016-2017 — 2017-2018
