Faculty Member
Elyse Caron-Beaudoin
- Email Address(es)
- elyse.caronbeaudoin(at)utoronto.ca
- Website(s)
- From Bench to Communities Lab
- Division(s)/Institute(s)
- Occupational & Environmental Health Division
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Appointment Status
- Non budgtry Crss
Research Interests
Toxicology
Molecular biology
Public and environmental health
Community-based research
Exposure assessment and biomonitoring
Presentation:
Dr. Elyse Caron-Beaudoin is an Associate Professor in Environmental Health at the University of Toronto Scarborough whose research integrates toxicology, molecular biology, exposure science, and epidemiology to understand how environmental contaminants affect human health. Her work examines pathways linking industrial and other anthropogenic pressures to reproductive and pregnancy outcomes, asthma, endocrine disruption, and stress-related mechanisms.
A central pillar of her program is long-term, community-engaged research conducted in partnership with Indigenous communities in Northeastern British Columbia. Through co-developed biomonitoring, epidemiological, and traditional food safety studies, she works with communities to address locally identified priorities related to contaminant exposure and health. Her collaborative approach emphasizes respect, reciprocity, and knowledge mobilization to support environmental justice and evidence-informed policy.
Complementing this work, her toxicology program develops advanced in vitro co-culture cellular models to investigate the mechanisms through which environmental exposures cause toxicity. These physiologically relevant models help elucidate how contaminants affect cellular and molecular pathways and provide mechanistic insight into links between exposure and adverse health outcomes.
Dr. Caron-Beaudoin’s work bridges mechanistic science, real-world exposure, and lived experience to advance interdisciplinary and community-responsive environmental health research.
Current affiliations:
Associate Professor in environmental health, Department of Health and Society, University of Toronto Scarborough
Graduate appointment, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough
Graduate appointment, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Graduate appointment, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Toronto