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Upcoming Webinars
Fires, Floods & Hurricanes: Protecting Canadians by Identifying and Managing Threats to Safe Drinking Water
May 26, 2022 @ 12 - 1pm Pacific Time (PT)
Cost: FREE
Dr. Monica Emelko
Professor and the Canada Research Chair in Water Science, Technology & Policy, University of Waterloo
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In the past decade, climate change-exacerbated landscape disturbances such as wildfires and floods have threatened water security by altering not only water availability, but also source water quality and consequently treatability. An international panel convened by the Canadian Water Network and the Water Research Foundation in 2014 concluded that sole reliance on in-plant treatment technologies for mitigating such risks is inadequate.
Algae blooms—especially cyanobacteria—pose some of the greatest associated challenges to drinking water treatment. Cyanobacteria blooms can reduce drinking water treatment process efficiency, leading to service disruptions, inability to meet community demands, and even outages. Moreover, they can produce toxins that expensive advanced treatment not found in most conventional treatment plants.
Traditional source water protection approaches are alarmingly inadequate for managing these threats, especially in a changing climate. These challenges underscore the urgent need to integrate watershed and reservoir management for not only water quantity, but water quality and treatability with broader risk management and public health protection mandates.
Fortunately, Canada’s wealth of green, natural resource-based infrastructure can be leveraged to manage risk and mitigate water quality impacts. Such approaches to source water protection are urgently needed, especially in rural, remote, and marginalized communities—small systems—with limited resources for implementing costly and operator-intensive in-plant treatment technologies.
This presentation will provide:
- an overview of the critical linkages between landscape disturbance, source water quality, and drinking water treatability,
- a discussion of continental-scale evidence that these risks are growing and expanding beyond conventional perspectives on cyanobacterial bloom occurrence and management,
- a case study highlighting the legacy treatment challenges, health risks, and associated costs attributable to severe landscape disturbances, and
- an overview of strategies for risk management, including techno-ecological nature-based solutions.
Monica Emelko
Dr. Monica Emelko is a Professor and the Canada Research Chair in Water Science, Technology & Policy at the University of Waterloo, where she is also the Associate Director of Climate Risk, Resilience, and Adaptation at the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change. Her research is focused on drinking water treatment and risk analysis for public health protection and has informed water regulations globally including the U.S. Surface Water Treatment Rules and their international equivalents. Monica and her research group have also investigated the effects of climate-exacerbated land disturbances on hydrology, water quality, ecology, and treatability for over 17 years. They were the first globally to be cited by the IPCC for identifying climate change-associated threats to drinking security through water quality and treatability.
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Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples’ Health in Canada
June 8, 2022 @ 12 - 1pm Pacific Time (PT)
Cost: FREE
Donna Atkinson and Leah Quinlan
National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health
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This presentation will highlight the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health’s (NCCIH) collaboration on the 2022 national assessment titled the Health of Canadians in a Changing Climate: Advancing our Knowledge for Action, produced by Health Canada’s Climate Change and Health Innovation Bureau. This comprehensive study of current and projected risks from climate change to the health of Canadians included a chapter dedicated to climate change and Indigenous Peoples’ health in Canada. Contributing author, Donna Atkinson will provide an overview of the key findings of this chapter; a summary of specific climate change risks to First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples’ health; the role of Indigenous knowledges and rights in climate change adaptation, research and policy; and knowledge gaps for future research.
Donna Atkinson, MA, National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health
Donna Atkinson is the Manager of the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health. She graduated with a Master of Arts degree in History in 2005 from the University of Northern British Columbia focused on the Indigenous rights movement and oil and gas development in Northwest Siberia in the Soviet and post-Soviet era.
Leah Quinlan, BSocSci, National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health
Leah Quinlan is a student in the Master of Public Health in Indigenous Health program at the University of Toronto, and is completing a practicum placement as a Student Researcher with the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health. She is on education leave from her position as an Environmental Specialist/Coordinator with Indigenous Services Canada. Leah has worked in the Indigenous environmental health field for the past six years focusing on Indigenous health equity and supporting culturally-safe climate health adaptation measures.
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Archived Seminars
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March 24, 2022: Health Canada’s new lead guideline and results of an Indigenous Services Canada, FNIHB drinking water sampling survey in children's facilities (Presented by France Lemieux, Tony Thepsouvanh)
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February 24, 2022: The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change: Two different, but equally important, crises having major psychosocial impacts (Presented by Dr. Mélissa Généreux)
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February 17, 2022: Quebec’s health alert system for cold weather events (Presented by Fateh Chebana)
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January 25, 2022: Spatially exploring COVID-19 risks in BC’s neighbourhoods (Presented by Valorie Crooks, Leah Rosenkrantz)
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December 16, 2021: Infection prevention and control infractions and Ontario personal service settings (Presented by Katherine Paphitis, David Ryding)
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November 25, 2021: The British Columbia Radon Data Repository – What is it and how can we use it? (Presented by David McVea, Jeffrey Trieu)
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October 26, 2021: Public health and law enforcement in partnership: What does the public need to know about illegal cannabis? (Presented by Kim Shelford, Hovan Baghdassarian, Rachel Huggins)
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September 29, 2021: Mobilizing Environmental Data to Build Healthier Cities for All - CANUE (Presented by Jeffrey Brook, Eleanor Setton, Dany Doiron)
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August 26, 2021: Impact of Climate Change and Wild Weather on Mental and Physical Health, Lost Time From Work and the Need to Prepare (Presented by Dr. Blair Feltmate)
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July 28, 2021: Protecting the health of Canadians and Canadian workers on our warming planet (presented by Dr. Glen P. Kenny)
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June 24, 2021: Climate-health adaptation planning: Two approaches, one shared learning journey (presented by Sarah Warren & Kerry-Ann Charles-Norris)
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May 26, 2021: Indoor CO2 Sensors for COVID-19 Risk Mitigation: Current Guidance and Limitations (presented by Dr. Angela Eykelbosh)
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April 29, 2021: Visual Tools and Processes for Engaging Intersectoral Partners on the Health Impacts of Resource Development (presented by Dr. Raina Fumerton & Sally Western)
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April 1, 2021: Environmental factors associated with freshwater recreational water quality in Toronto and Niagara (presented by Dr. Johanna Sanchez & Dr. Jordan Tustin)
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February 24, 2021: Scoping Population Health in Impact Assessment (ScopHIA) (presented by Jennifer Ann Brown & Dr. Candace I. J. Nykiforuk)
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February 17, 2021: Psychosocial Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic: A frame of reference from lessons learned through disasters in Canada (presented by Mélissa Généreux)
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December 17, 2020: Surface Cleaning and Disinfection in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic (presented by Tina Chen, KT Scientist, NCCEH)
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November 10, 2020: COVID-19 management in personal services settings: Lessons learned from a nail salon outbreak (presented by Dr. Azim Kasmani and Anthony Li)
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October 22, 2020: KALAMITea - Kombucha alcohol levels affecting mothers, infants and toddlers (presented by Lorraine McIntyre, BCCDC)
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September 30, 2020: COVID-19 Risks and precautions for the performing arts (presented by Juliette O'Keeffe, EH & KT Scientist, NCCEH)
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August 27, 2020: When shelter in place isn't an option - environmental health guidance for encampments during COVID-19 (presented by Jade Yehia, Regional Built Environment Consultant, Island Health)
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June 2020: Responding to Climate Change as Public Health Professionals (presented by Kim Perrotta, Executive Director, Creating Healthy and Sustainable Environments (CHASE))
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May 28, 2020: COVID-19 Precautions for Multi-unit Residential Buildings (presented by Dr. Angela Eykelbosh, EH & KT Scientist, NCCEH)
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April 30, 2020: Indoor environmental quality of sustainable building designs and occupant health (presented by Dr. Karen Bartlett, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia)
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February 20, 2020: Strategies to combat Legionnaires’ Disease – Outbreak Investigation and Preventive Policy (presented by Mark McCabe, Fraser Health Authority; Christopher Radziminski, and Phillip White from City of Vancouver)
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January 30, 2020: An Investigation of Mercury Poisoning and Home Contamination: Success through multi-sectoral collaboration (presented by Lori Holmes, Huron Perth Public Health; Sunil Varughese, Public Health Ontario; Vince Spilchuk, Public Health Ontario)
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December 18, 2019: Marijuana Edibles: Regulatory Updates, Risk Assessment and Public Health Messaging (presented by Keith Warriner, Department of Food Science, University of Guelph)
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November 20, 2019: Cannabis Edibles Roles & Responsibilities in Regional Health Authorities; (presented by Carrie Cotton, Senior Policy Analyst, Ministry of Health)
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October 2, 2019: Lessons Learned From the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: The Role of Disaster (presented by Dr. Richard Kwok, Chief of Staff, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
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September 26, 2019: Lessons in Public Health Planning for Wildfire Smoke (presented by Sally Maguet, Consultant, BC Centre for Disease Control)
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July 11, 2019: BCIT Student Research Projects (presented by Christine Sweezey, Michael Cai, Diane Lee)
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June 12, 2019: Calls to the British Columbia Drug and Poison Information Centre on the Cusp of Cannabis Legalization (presented by Tissa Rahim, Project Coordinator, BC Centre for Disease Control)
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May 29, 2019: Risks and vulnerabilities due to climate change in Canada: New evidence and HealthADAPT (presented by Peter Berry, Senior Policy Analyst, Health Canada)
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April 18, 2019: Paradox of Wealth and Health: Resource Development and Social Determinants of Health (presented by Barbara Oke, Regional Manager, Health and Resource Development, Northern Health and Melissa Aalhus, Health and Resource Development Technical Advisor, Northern Health)
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March 27, 2019: Cyanobacteria and drinking water (presented by Juliette O'Keeffe, EH & KT Scientist, NCCEH and Victoria (Tory) Colling, Scientist, Walkerton Clean Water Centre)
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March 6, 2019: Indigenous Food Safety and Security: Community Adaptations in the Wake of Climate Pressures (presented by Casey Neathway, Interior Regional Manager of Environmental Public Health Services, First Nations Health Authority and Leela Steiner, Environmental Health and Knowledge Translation Scientist, NCCEH)
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January 30, 2019: Supporting Health Equity through Healthy Built Environments (presented by Dianne Oickle, Knowledge Translation Specialist, NCCDH and Karen Rideout, Karen Rideout Consulting)