BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260713T103110EDT-2051iZfIDF@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260713T143110Z 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 Conference ag enda\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 Un iversity of California\, Berkeley and the Principal Investigator and Direc tor of the NIEHS/EPA Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Heal th (CERCH). She is an internationally renowned neuropsychologist and epide miologist whose long-standing research interest has been the effects of to xicants including lead\, solvents\, environmental tobacco smoke\, dioxin\, and pesticides on human reproduction and child development.  Dr. Eskenazi directs studies on 3 continents\, has authored or co-authored more than 2 50 papers\, and has recently been awarded the John Goldsmith Award for lif etime achievement in environmental epidemiology.\n\nDr. Michael Brauer is a Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at The Universit y of British Columbia.  He also directs the Bridge Program – a strategic t raining program linking public health\, engineering and policy.  His resea rch focuses on the relationships between the built environment and health and on the assessment of exposure and health impacts of air pollution.  He has participated in monitoring and epidemiological studies throughout the world and served on advisory committees to the World Health Organization\ , the Climate and Clean Air Coalition\, the US National Academy of Science s\, the Royal Society of Canada\, the International Joint Commission and g overnments in North America and Asia.  He is an Associate Editor of Enviro nmental Health Perspectives and a member of the Core Analytic Team for 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:/channels/event/global-environmental-health-cell-s ociety-253675 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR