Monday, June 24, 2019

Invited speaker to VII Colombian Congress and International Conference on Air Quality and Public Health (CASAP) 2019

I am pleased to be participating in the 7th CASAP conference to be held August 13-16th in Barranquilla Colombia.  A copy of the program is available online.... More

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Healthy Trees, Healthy City: BEYOND-Health Students Present

On September 21, 2016, BEYOND-Health students Sarah Ambrose, Jason DiMuzio, and Ariel Root attended the Healthy Trees, Healthy City event organized by the City of Ottawa, Tree Fest Ottawa, and Ottawa Public Health. The event featured organizations who focus on environment and healthy living, with main headliner Professor Marc Berman of the... More

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Découverte: Pollution & Cardiovascular Disease

On the May 1, 2016 episode of CBC's Découverte, Paul Villeneuve discusses the link between air pollution and cardiovascular disease alongside cardiologist François Reeves from the University of Montreal, and epidemiologist Jill Baumgartner from the University of Toronto. Watch the full episode... More

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Occupational exposure to diesel linked to colorectal cancer

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified diesel exhaust as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1) and gasoline exhaust as a possible carcinogen (Group 2B) based studies of lung cancer, however the evidence for other sites is limited. We recently undertook a study to investigate whether occupational exposure to diesel and... More

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Students present their work at McGill conference

On October 30, 2015, three graduates students who are doing research with me attended the conference “Global Environment: From Cell to Society” at McGill University on October 30, 2015.  All three students garnered considerable interest in their work.  Anna Tomczak presented her work looking at associations between long-term exposure to air... More

Monday, August 24, 2015

CHAIM Research Centre Blog on the Environment and Childhood Cancer

The following blog written by Marie-Claire Flores Pajot, a MSc student in the Department of Health Sciences, speaks to the role of the environment on childhood cancer, and our plans to research it. Read more  ... More

Sunday, July 19, 2015

CIHR grant news

Dr. Warren Foster of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at McMaster University, and Dr. Paul Villeneuve of the Department of Health Sciences at Carleton University were successful with their submission to CIHR’s Transitional Operating Grant. Their 5-year research project will study a novel clinical marker of endometriosis.... More

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Blog on Air Pollution Paper

The following blog summarizes findings from our recent air pollution paper published in Epidemiology in April 2015. read... More

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