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    WINTER-SPRING 2014 SCHEDULE

    ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH
    SEMINAR SERIES

    THURSDAYS at 4:10 p.m.

    Room 179, University College, 15 King’s College Circle

    Healthy Public Policy through an Environmental Justice Lens: Stories from the Trenches
    Presenter:SARAH WAKEFIELD, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto
    Date:THUR JAN 23

    Watersheds as Settings for Health and Well-being: Ecohealth in Practice
    Presenter:KAREN MORRISON, Assistant Professor, Population Health University of Guelph
    Date:THUR JAN 30

    Reducing Systemic Vulnerability to Climate Change in Peel
    Presenter:LOUISE AUBIN, Manager, Health Hazards & Environmental Health, Peel Public Health 
    Date:THUR FEB 6

    How not to have a Sex Panic: Reframing the Politics of Reproductive Toxins
    Presenter:MICHELLE MURPHY, Professor, Department of History & Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
    Date:THUR FEB 13

    Health Evidence in Municipal Decision-Making: Health Impact Assessment of a Proposed Expansion to Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport
    Presenter:STEPHANIE GOWER, Healthy Public Policy, Toronto Public Health
    Date:THUR FEB 27

    A Tree on Trial: Health and the Urban Canopy, or Saving the Urban Forest One Tree—and Lawsuit—at a Time
    Presenter
    :STEPHEN SCHARPER, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UofT Mississauga and School of the Environment
    Date:THUR MAR 6

    Black Carbon Personal Exposures and Cardiovascular Effects in Beijing, China
    Presenter
    :JEFF BROOK, Senior Research Scientist, Air Quality Research Division, Environment Canada
    Date:THUR MAR 13

    Bugs, Bowels, Brains and Behaviour: The role of the Gut Microbiome in Neurodevelopmental/ Neuropsychiatric Disorders
    Presenter:DERRICK MACFABE, Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychology (Neuroscience) & Psychiatry (Division of Developmental Disabilities), Director, Kilee Patchell-Evans Autism Research group, University of Western Ontario
    Date:THUR MAR 20

    Printed January 14, 2014  Seminars are subject to change or cancellation.
    Please visit www.environment.utoronto.ca or email environment.seminars@utoronto.ca
    (416-978-3475) for updates, abstracts and speakers’ bios.
    No registration or fee required; all are welcome. 
    For parking information, please call 416-978-PARK.