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WINTER-SPRING 2014 SCHEDULE
ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH
SEMINAR SERIES
THURSDAYS at 4:10 p.m.
Room 179, University College, 15 King’s College Circle
Healthy Public Policy through an Environmental Justice Lens: Stories from the Trenches
Presenter:SARAH WAKEFIELD, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto
Date:THUR JAN 23
Watersheds as Settings for Health and Well-being: Ecohealth in Practice
Presenter:KAREN MORRISON, Assistant Professor, Population Health University of Guelph
Date:THUR JAN 30
Reducing Systemic Vulnerability to Climate Change in Peel
Presenter:LOUISE AUBIN, Manager, Health Hazards & Environmental Health, Peel Public Health
Date:THUR FEB 6
How not to have a Sex Panic: Reframing the Politics of Reproductive Toxins
Presenter:MICHELLE MURPHY, Professor, Department of History & Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
Date:THUR FEB 13
Health Evidence in Municipal Decision-Making: Health Impact Assessment of a Proposed Expansion to Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport
Presenter:STEPHANIE GOWER, Healthy Public Policy, Toronto Public Health
Date:THUR FEB 27
A Tree on Trial: Health and the Urban Canopy, or Saving the Urban Forest One Tree—and Lawsuit—at a Time
Presenter:STEPHEN SCHARPER, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UofT Mississauga and School of the Environment
Date:THUR MAR 6
Black Carbon Personal Exposures and Cardiovascular Effects in Beijing, China
Presenter:JEFF BROOK, Senior Research Scientist, Air Quality Research Division, Environment Canada
Date:THUR MAR 13
Bugs, Bowels, Brains and Behaviour: The role of the Gut Microbiome in Neurodevelopmental/ Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Presenter:DERRICK MACFABE, Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychology (Neuroscience) & Psychiatry (Division of Developmental Disabilities), Director, Kilee Patchell-Evans Autism Research group, University of Western Ontario
Date:THUR MAR 20
Printed January 14, 2014 Seminars are subject to change or cancellation.
Please visit www.environment.utoronto.ca or email environment.seminars@utoronto.ca
(416-978-3475) for updates, abstracts and speakers’ bios.
No registration or fee required; all are welcome.
For parking information, please call 416-978-PARK.