The Centre for Urban Health Initiatives presents:

“Urban Population Exposure to Environmental Hazards: Approaches and
Utilities”

Dr. Audrey Smargiassi, Ph.D., Researcher, Quebec Institute of Public Health;
Adjunct Professor, University of Quebec; Member, Centre for Urban Health
Initiatives and of the Lea Roback Research Centre on Social and Health
Inequities.  
    	
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
1:10 - 2:10PM
University College, Rm. 256, University of Toronto
15 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H7
Map: http://oracle.osm.utoronto.ca/map/index2.html
RSVP by May 1 to Galen Trull at [log in to unmask] or 416-978-7223

Abstract
A major challenge in assessing the health impact of environmental hazards in
our urban environments is to estimate exposure of individuals in large
populations. In population exposure assessment, few studies have taken into
account exposure in both time and space. Dr Smargiassi will present
in-development methodologies to estimate population exposure in space and
time, to urban environmental hazards (such as to indoor heat, to industrial
air emissions and to firework emission plumes). Such methodologies are being
developed to evaluate the health impact of urban exposure to environmental
hazards and to characterize environmental inequity. They are also being
developed for modeling activities to orient urban development interventions
to minimize population exposure.

Biography
Audrey Smargiassi obtained her Ph.D. in environmental sciences in 1996.
Supported by the Medical Research Council of Canada, she pursued
postdoctoral studies in neurotoxicology in Italy. With the Quebec Institute
of Public Health since 2000, her research is now focused on ways to assess
environmental exposure in population health studies as well as on ways to
assess determinants of exposure to better target interventions in
environmental health. She is an adjunct professor at the University of
Quebec in Montreal and a member of CUHI and of the Lea Roback research
Centre on Social and Health Inequities.  


FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Galen Trull
Centre Coordinator
Centre for Urban Health Initiatives
www.cuhi.utoronto.ca
Ph: 416-978-7223
Fx: 416-946-0669
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