March 2023

Features:

• A guide to post-flooding community-level psychosocial response and recovery practices in Canada
• Webinar - Public health practices to support psychosocial and mental health response and recovery post-flooding
• Community-based adaptation approaches to sea level rise and health

February 2023

Features:

• Do-it-yourself air cleaners: FAQs and additional resources
• Climate change impacts on Canada’s food supply cold chain
• Foodborne Illness Outbreaks: Roles and responsibilities

January 2023

Features:

• Do-it-yourself (DIY) air cleaners: Evidence on effectiveness and considerations for safe operation
• Webinar: Do-it-yourself (DIY) air cleaners: Evidence on effectiveness and considerations for safe operation
• Where the public meets health: Libraries as key partners for advancing public health goals

December 2022

Features:

• Sea level rise and public health implications
• The impacts of climate and land use change on tick-related risks
• A renewed attention on environmental equity and justice

November 2022

Features:

• Focus on health in the balance of energy retrofits and indoor air quality
• Post-disaster emergency response: Supporting people who use substances
• Impacts of Canada’s changing climate on West Nile Virus vectors

October 2022

Features:

• Supporting foodborne outbreak investigations: A review of the use of whole genome sequencing and emerging technologies
• Pandemic experiences with manual ventilation and carbon dioxide (CO₂) sensing in schools
• Climate change and opportunistic pathogens (OPs) in the built environment

September 2022

Features:

• Red tides and health risks for recreational water users
• Public health and public libraries in partnership to promote healthy indoor air quality
• One Health: A primer for environmental public health practice

August 2022

Features:

• A review of ticks in Canada and health risks from exposure
• Mosquitoes in a changing climate
• Webinar: Surveying mosquito distribution in BC and Yukon Territory in a changing climate

July 2022

Features:

• Climate change, coastal communities, and food from the sea
• Pools, hot tubs, and other treated recreational water venues
• Recreational coastal, freshwater, and other untreated natural waters

June 2022

Features:

• Webinar - Preventing injuries and deaths during extreme heat events
• Extreme heat
• Health checks during extreme heat events

May 2022

Features:

• Avian influenza A(H5N1) 2022 outbreak in Canada
• Webinar - Fires, Floods & Hurricanes: Protecting Canadians by Identifying and Managing Threats to Safe Drinking Water
• Webinar - Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples’ Health in Canada

April 2022

Features:

• Listening to Canadians about environmental noise
• Marine shellfish poisoning
• Environmental Noise

March 2022

Features:

• Canadian green spaces during COVID-19: public health benefits and planning for resilience
• Mobilizing extreme cold response plans for people experiencing homelessness
• Webinar - Health Canada’s new lead guideline and results of an Indigenous Services Canada, FNIHB drinking water sampling survey in children's facilities

February 2022

Features:

• (Raw) food for thought: antimicrobial resistance and BARF pet diets
• Antimicrobial resistance in the food chain
• Microplastics in the mix: considering dietary sources and human exposure

January 2022

Features:

NCCEH Webinars

• Spatially exploring COVID-19 risks in BC’s neighbourhoods
• Assessing environments to support healthy aging and reduce social isolation
• Quebec’s health alert system for cold weather events
• The COVID-19 pandemic and climate changes: Two different, but equally important, crises having major psychosocial impacts

December 2021

Features:

• Creating healthy community places and spaces with individuals with diverse abilities
• Webinar recording - Accessibility in the face of a pandemic: How inclusive features are undermined in health crises, and what we can do to improve
• Flood zones are danger zones

November 2021

Features:

• Upcoming Webinar - The British Columbia Radon Data Repository – What is it and how can we use it?
• Updated radon topic page
• Introducing British Columbia’s new interactive radon map

October 2021

Features:

• Upcoming Webinar - Public health and law enforcement in partnership: What does the public need to know about illegal cannabis?
• Health and Safety in Cannabis Cultivation
• Cannabis Resources for Environmental Health Practitioners

September 2021

Features:

• Upcoming Webinar - Mobilizing Environmental Data to Build Healthier Cities for All
• Make our communities healthier with better air quality during and post-pandemic: CANUE
• CPHA - Infectious disease and climate change in Canada: Key informant interviews

August 2021

Features:

• Health and Social Impacts of Long-term Evacuation Due to Natural Disasters in First Nations Communities: A Summary of Lessons for Public Health
• From the Floodwaters: Siksika Nation and the Bow River Flood Insights for Public Health Responses to Long-term Evacuation
• Out of the Ashes: Ashcroft Indian Band and the Elephant Hill Wildfire Insights for Public Health Responses to Long-term Evacuation

July 2021

Features:

• Webinar - Protecting the health of Canadians and Canadian workers on our warming planet
• NCCEH Extreme Heat Resources
• Global Heat Health International Network

June 2021

Features:

• Masking during the COVID-19 pandemic – An update of the evidence
• Growing resilience and promoting health through urban agriculture
• Transitioning from COVID-19 restrictions to new norms: Innovating strategies to restore trust and transit ridership

May 2021

Features:

• Indoor CO2 Sensors for COVID-19 Risk Mitigation: Current Guidance and Limitations
• Recalls highlight importance of hand sanitizer safety

April 2021

Features:

• Webinar - Visual Tools and Processes for Engaging Intersectoral Partners on the Health Impacts of Resource Development
• The Healthy Built Environment (HBE) Forum moves to Facebook
• HBE Webinar - Integrating Health into Scenario Planning for Transportation & Land Use Applications

March 2021

Features:

• Contextualizing the risks of indirect COVID-19 transmission in multi-unit residential buildings
• Fomites and the COVID-19 pandemic: An evidence review on its role in viral transmission
• Accessibility for persons with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic and inclusion for future planning

February 2021

Features:

• COVID-19 risks from handling the deceased
• Health in impact assessments for natural resource and large infrastructure developments – opportunities for public health
• Scoping Population Health in Impact Assessment (ScopHIA): Canada's new Impact Assessment Act

January 2021

Features:

• Looking for COVID-19 clues in our sewers
• Can CO2 sensors be used to assess COVID-19 transmission risk?
• Mink farming and SARS-CoV-2: Staying vigilant at the human-animal interface

December 2020

Features:

• Air cleaning technologies for indoor spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Face shields in public: better than nothing, but not good enough
• NCCEH Webinar: Psychosocial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic: A frame of reference from lessons learned through disasters in Canada

November 2020

Features:

• Outdoor Winter Dining during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Environmental Surface and Air Sampling in the Context of COVID-19 Pandemic
• NCCEH Webinar: Surface Cleaning and Disinfection in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

October2020

Features:

• High-humidity Environments and the Risk of COVID-19 Transmission
• A rapid review of disinfectant chemical exposures and health effects during COVID-19 pandemic
• Masking during the COVID-19 pandemic [Updated]

September 2020

Features:

• COVID-19 Risks and precautions for the performing arts
• COVID-19 Management during Public Health Emergencies
• Nanomaterials as Disinfectants in the Time of SARS-CoV-2
• Public washrooms in the time of COVID-19: Facility features and user behaviours can influence safety

August 2020

Features:

• Environmental public health guidance for encampments during COVID-19
• Hand Sanitizer contamination prompts more recalls during COVID-19
• COVID-19 Risks and Precautions for Choirs

July 2020

Features:

• Climate Atlas of Canada: A resource for environmental public health
• Climate change and health equity: NCCDH resources
• Extreme heat and COVID19 physical distancing recommendations: INSPQ

June 2020

Features:

• Webinar: Responding to Climate Change as Public Health Professionals
• Blog: Responding to Climate Change as Public Health Professionals
• Ecological Economics and Public Health: An Interview with Dr. Trevor Hancock

May 2020

Features:

• eTick.ca: an Expanded Platform for tracking ticks in Canada
• The European fire ant: Are they more than picnic pests?
• Asian Giant Hornets on Canada’s West Coast 

April 2020

Features:

• Crematoria Emissions and Air Quality 
• Summer is coming: Wildfire Smoke + COVID-19
• Make our communities healthier with better air quality

March 2020

Features:

• New Mould Course
• Updated Mould Topic page
• Webinar: Upcoming indoor air webinars

February 2020

Features:

• New Healthy Built Environment Newsletter
• Healthy Built Environment Webinar Series
• Healthy Built Environment Forum Evaluation Survey

January 2020

Features:

• Legionella Topic Page
• Blog: Cooling Tower Registries and Building Water Management Plans
• Webinar: Strategies to combat Legionnaire’s Disease

December 2019

Features:

• Season's Greetings

November 2019

Features:

• Findings, Gaps and Recommendations Report for Health Impact Assessment in Canada 
• Health Impact Assessment Topic Page
• Incorporating Health in Urban Planning: Quebec City 

October 2019

Features:

• Training and Support for Managing Drinking Water Systems in First Nations Communities
• Supporting Indigenous Communities During EPH Emergencies
• Indigenous Disaster Response Topic Page

September 2019

Features:

• The CanDR2 Network: Improving Disaster Health Outcomes and Resilience through Data and Research
• Webinar: Lessons Learned from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
• Psychosocial impacts: resources for mitigation, response and recovery

August 2019

Features:

• Public Health Responses to Wildfire Smoke Events
• Lessons in public health planning for wildfire smoke
• Updated Wildfire Smoke and Health Topic Page

July 2019

Features:

• New Video: Growing Cannabis Safely at Home
• New Cannabis Edibles Regulations
• Cannabis poisoning in BC: Insights from poison control centre calls

June 2019

Features:

• Rising concern of tick-borne diseases in Canada
• Journal Articles on Climate Change and Infectious Disease
• A public platform for image-based identification of ticks

May 2019

Features:

• Risks and vulnerabilities due to climate change in Canada: New evidence and HealthADAPT
• Special Journal Issue on Climate Change
• The Climate Atlas of Canada

April 2019

Features:

• Webinar: A Paradox of Wealth and Health
• Blog: Resource Development and Social Determinants  of Health
• Understanding the Public Health Implications of Shale Gas Extraction

March 2019

Features:

• Testing for Lead in School Drinking Water
• Cyanobacteria and Drinking Water: Occurrence, Risks, Management and Knowledge Gaps for Public Health
• Webinar: Cyanobacteria and drinking water