Occupational and Environmental Health Seminar Series 2025-2026

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, the Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease, and the Centre for Occupational Disease Prevention.

We have changed the way we manage attendance at the seminars. Please email ocrc@ontariohealth.ca to sign up for the mailing list and/or register for this seminar.

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Upcoming seminars

Date	Speaker/affiliation	Title
March 27, 2026	Amy Pruden-Bagchi (Virginia Tech)	Environmental Monitoring of Antimicrobial Resistance to Inform Public Health Interventions
April 10, 2026	Karen Cassidy (CCOHS)	Strengthening the Safety Culture: Tools and Strategies from CCOHS in Canada

Seminar Details

Time: Seminars are held on Fridays from 12:00pm to 1:00pm (ET)
Location: online only

The seminars are open to everyone, and can be attended via Zoom webinar. Registration is free of charge. To register, and to receive the instructions for connecting to the webinar, please follow the registration links in the table below. The link will become available approximately a week before each seminar date.

Following the seminar, presentation slides will be posted below with the consent of the presenter.

Attendance at OEH seminars may support requirements for continuing education and/or professional development, including the CIPHI Continuing Professional Competencies Program, CRBOH Registration Maintenance Program, or BCG Recertification Points. Please refer to requirements under your relevant professional body to ensure compliance. Records of attendance will be provided to attendees who make this request during the registration process, and will be sent at the end of the seminar series (April 2026). For more information, please contact Victoria Arrandale (victoria.arrandale@utoronto.ca).  

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Past Seminars

March 13, 2026 – Is working from home good for mental health? Published paper
Jean-Philippe Chaput (CHEO)
From Home to Office: How Work Location Shapes Activity and Sleep in Canada
Stephanie Ware (PHAC)

February 27, 2026 – Development of crosswalk methodologies for a diesel engine exhaust job-exposure matrix and impacts on lung cancer risk estimates in Ontario, Canada workers
Stephanie Ziembicki (University of Toronto)

February 13, 2026 – Public health surveillance in the workplace: is monitoring wastewater ethical?
Alison Thompson (University of Toronto, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Dalla Lana School of Public Health)

January 30, 2026 – Exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and metabolic syndrome: a Canadian Health Measures Survey mixture analysis
Janice Hu (Health Canada)

November 21, 2025 – Emerging sources of air pollution exposure
Arthur Chan (University of Toronto)

November 7, 2025- Impact of Interventions to Prevent Asbestos-Related Respiratory Disease
Nathan DeBono (Occupational Cancer Research Centre, University of Toronto)

October 24, 2025– Interstitial lung diseases and the role of occupational & environmental exposures
Kerri Johannson (Department of Medicine & Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases University of Calgary)

October 10, 2025 – IARC Evaluation of PFOA and PFOS for Cancer, 2023
Dr. Jane Hoppin (North Carolina State University)

September 26, 2025 – The New Battlefield: Health Without Borders – Uniting Military, Occupational, and Public Health to Confront 21st Century Threats
Colonel Carlo Rossi (Director Force Health Protection – Canadian Armed Forces)

September 12, 2025 – Night shift work, outdoor artificial light at night and cancer
Dr. Parveen Bhatti (BC Cancer Research Institute & University of British Columbia)

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