BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.177.157//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240423T145140EDT-4739VPRalU@132.216.177.157 DTSTAMP:20240423T185140Z DESCRIPTION:This full day conference aims to provide an opportunity to thos e interested in environmental health sciences to learn about the ground-br eaking work conducted on the topic in the region and beyond.  An exciting agenda of keynote speakers and presentations will bring together key playe rs in academia and government coming from the research and policy arenas\, providing numerous networking opportunities.\n\n \n\n \n\n\n \n Conference agenda\n \n\n\n\n Keynote Speakers:\n\nDr. Brenda Eskenazi is a Jennifer and Brian Maxwell Professor of Maternal and Child Health and Epidemiology at the University of California\, Berkeley and the Principal Investigator and Director of the NIEHS/EPA Center for Environmental Research and Children’ s Health (CERCH). She is an internationally renowned neuropsychologist and epidemiologist whose long-standing research interest has been the effects of toxicants including lead\, solvents\, environmental tobacco smoke\, di oxin\, and pesticides on human reproduction and child development.  Dr. Es kenazi directs studies on 3 continents\, has authored or co-authored more than 250 papers\, and has recently been awarded the John Goldsmith Award f or lifetime achievement in environmental epidemiology.\n\nDr. Michael Brau er is a Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at The Uni versity of British Columbia.  He also directs the Bridge Program – a strat egic training program linking public health\, engineering and policy.  His research focuses on the relationships between the built environment and h ealth and on the assessment of exposure and health impacts of air pollutio n.  He has participated in monitoring and epidemiological studies througho ut the world and served on advisory committees to the World Health Organiz ation\, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition\, the US National Academy of S ciences\, the Royal Society of Canada\, the International Joint Commission and governments in North America and Asia.  He is an Associate Editor of Environmental Health Perspectives and a member of the Core Analytic Team f or the Global Burden of Disease.\n\n \n DTSTART:20151030T120000Z DTEND:20151030T210000Z LOCATION:Thomson House\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1Y2\, 3650 rue McTavish SUMMARY:Global Environmental Health: From Cell to Society URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/globalhealth/channels/event/global-environmental- health-cell-society-253675 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR