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2023 - 2024 Research Scans
April 24, 2024
These monthly Research Scans highlights recent environmental health publications by topic and provides easy access to article abstracts and report summaries to support public health professionals,…
Environmental health surveys
January 25, 2024
Thank you to everyone who completed the NCCEH surveys. The winners for the gift cards will be drawn and winners contacted by February 20th, 2024. If you have any additional comments regarding Food…
Post-disaster emergency response: Supporting people who use substances
November 3, 2022
Introduction There have been over 30,000 recorded deaths attributed to toxic substances across Canada since 2016. The toxic drug supply has had a devastating impact on communities across Canada that…
Earthquake resources for environmental public health professionals
May 31, 2023
Earthquakes result when tectonic forces cause sections of the crust to move suddenly against each other, sending out seismic waves that cause imperceptible to violent shaking on the surface. This…
2022-2023 Research Scans
February 16, 2022
These monthly Research Scans highlights recent environmental health publications by topic and provides easy access to article abstracts and report summaries to support public health professionals,…
Psychosocial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic: A frame of reference from lessons learned through disasters in Canada
February 17, 2021
There is no doubt that mental health challenges posed by disasters will increase due to climate, demographic and social changes. This presentation details findings from Canadian-led studies on the…
Indigenous disaster response
September 25, 2019
Indigenous communities may be disproportionately impacted by a variety of emergencies and disasters, including floods, wildfires, and crude oil spills in their traditional territories. This may be…
Oil spills and health
September 19, 2019
Oil spills are very complex events that, depending on where they occur, may result in acute exposures to nearby human populations. Regardless of the presence of humans, however, oil spills have the…
The CanDR2 Network: Improving Disaster Health Outcomes and Resilience through Data and Research
September 18, 2019
Disasters in Canada Disasters are driven by the complex interactions of global phenomena such as extreme weather events, population growth, globalization, industrialization, urbanization,…
Guidance for the environmental public health management of crude oil incidents
August 20, 2018
Crude oil spills/releases, alone or in combination with combustion/explosion of the oil, have been the cause of several major disasters in Canada and around the world including the 2010 Deepwater…