Newsletter Archive

September 2023

Features:

• Urban rewilding and public health considerations
• The health impacts of drought in Canada

August 2023

Features:

• Pulsed electric fields: A potential alternative technology for parasite control in fish
• Preventing Indoor Overheating

July 2023

Features:

• Avian influenza A(H5N1) and the continuing outbreak
• Ticks in a changing climate: Resources for Environmental Public Health Professionals
• Cyanobacteria in freshwater

June 2023

Features:

• Reducing tick-related risks through improved design and maintenance in outdoor environments
• Fermented foods safety guidance: A new resource for public health practitioners
• Black garlic: Food safety considerations during production and storage

May 2023

Features:

• Foodborne illness outbreaks: Recommendations for collaborative investigations
• Updated Subject Guides: Extreme Heat | Flooding
• Ticks in a changing environment

April 2023

Features:

• Review of environmental management strategies to reduce tick populations
• Understanding adaptation approaches to sea level rise and health
• Alternative disposition services: Green burial, alkaline hydrolysis, and human composting

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