Survey on Chemical Exposures and Women's HealthTake our survey on chemicals and women's health!
The National Network on Environments and Women's Health, in collaboration with the Canadian Women's Health Network, is conducting a survey on people's daily exposures to chemicals. We are trying to gather information from as broad a range of people in Canada as possible, with a particular interest in responses from women. The survey will be on line until March 24th. Please fill it in and encourage others to do so as well (it only takes a few minutes). The results from the survey, which we will make known to Health Canada, will be published on our websites some time later in the spring. Here are the links to the surveys in English and French.
Chemicals Survey - English
www.surveymonkey.com/s/PBGRWGC Sondage sur les produits chimiques - French
www.surveymonkey.com/s/PBPPJTM More information on the Government of Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan
CMP Backgrounder WEBINAR - Gender-bending and Environmental Justice WEBINAR – Thursday March 18, 12-1 p.m. EST
Dayna Nadine Scott, co-director of the National Network on Environments and Women’s Health, will discuss the environmental health effects of long-term, low-dose exposure to pollutants, with a focus on the Aamjiwnaang First Nation reserve near Sarnia, ON. This community, in the midst of Canada’s largest petro-chemical complex, has seen a drastic decline in male newborns in recent years. Scott's on-going project applies gender-based analysis to the problem of chronic pollution, looking in particular at long-term, low dose exposures.
Scott is cross-appointed between York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School and the Faculty of Environmental Studies. Her current research examines the way we talk about “endocrine disruption” from critical perspective. She completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at McGill’s Faculty of Law, and a Fulbright Fellowship at NYU Law School.
* Please email info@cwhn.ca for registration information.
* The webinar is free of charge and open to the public. You will need a computer with a high speed internet connection and speakers (or a headset).
* If you would like to suggest a question for Dayna Scott, please email it along with your registration request Researcher needed for a project on "Accommodated Breastfeeding"We are seeking a Ph.D. student in law, social science, or women's studies (or another relevant discipline) to conduct research into current employment law regimes around the accommodation of brea...
Read More Welcome to two working groupsThis past spring, NNEWH welcomed into its Network two sister working groups, Women and Health Care Reform (WHCR) and Women and Health Protection (WHP). WHCR, chaired by York University Professor Pat Armstrong, has a mandate to conduct research and advise on the effects of health care reforms on women as providers, decisions makers and users of health care systems. Areas of focus have included women as ancillary workers, women’s work in long term care, the impact of privatization on women, timely access to care and a gender-based analysis of wait times. WHP, coordinated by Anne Rochon Ford (former Community Co-Director of NNEWH, 1996-1998) has a mandate to examine the impact of federal decisions relating to drugs and devices on women’s health. Work to date has included a gender-based analysis of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs, transparency in the drug regulation process, women and adverse drug reaction reporting, decision-making and the HPV vaccine, and the impact of pharmaceuticals in our water.
Each group will continue to carry out work within their long-standing mandates, and both groups will be administratively housed under NNEWH within York University.
NNEWH Job Opportunity: Program Evaluator/ConsultantNNEWH has a part-time contract position available for a Program Evaluator/Consultant. The person in this position will be primarily involved in supporting NNEWH staff with evaluation design, creation ...
Read More The POWER Study cancer chapter now availableThe POWER Study (Project for an Ontario Women's Health Evidence-based
Report) Cancer chapter is now available for download.
The POWER Study is producing a two-volume Women's Health Repo...
Read More Join us for the launch of womenandwater.ca!EVENT DATE: September 17th 2009, 4:00pm – 6:00pm
LOCATION: Room 140, HNES Building, York University
Please join the National Network on Environments and Women's Health (NNEWH) and the Faculty of Environmental Studies in celebrating the launch of www.womenandwater.ca on September 17th 2009 at York University.
Over the past year the National Network on Environments and Women's Health (NNEWH) has been working on a variety of projects related to women and water covering such aspects as privatization, contamination, and meaning within Aboriginal communities. This website will bring together resources related to women and water and serve as a platform for releasing new research and policy tools from NNEWH. Invited guest, Meera Karunananthan of the Council of Canadians, will address the gathering briefly about the controversial proposed dump Site 41 and joint work of the Council of Canadians and NNEWH.
Light refreshments will be served
If possible, please RSVP to nnewh1@yorku.ca
SPEAKER SERIES -The Price of Advocacy: Can We Afford It?The story of one physician's experience in simply trying to do his job to the best of his ability as an advocate for his patients in a Northern Canadian town Dr. JOHN O’CONNOR
Community Physician (former Medical Examiner for Fort Chipewyan), Northern Alberta
Tuesday 26 January 2010
12:30pm to 2:00pm in HNES 140
Dr John O’Connor is a family physician who bravely raised concerns about possible link between Alberta’s oilsands mega-development and cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan, a remote aboriginal community situated on the northern shore of Lake Athabasca. He was medical examiner for the region of Fort Chipewyan from 2000 to 2007. In 2007, Health Canada physicians laid complaints of professional misconduct against O’Connor with the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr O’Connor was cleared of all charges.
Presented by the Faculty of Environmental Studies in collaboration with the Faculty of Health and the National Network on Environments and Women’s Health SPEAKER SERIES: A pill for every ill or an ill for every pill?Speaker: Dr. Barbara Mintzes
Date: Tuesday January 26, 2010
Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Room: 320 Bethune College
Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines is illegal in
Canada on public health grounds. However, Canadians see these ads every day, in U.S. television and magazines sold in Canada, and -- increasingly -- in Canadian media. What do we know about the effects on public health, health care costs, and people's understanding of drugs and diseases?
This presentation reviews the research evidence and discusses its implications for Canadian health care policy, especially in light of the recent CanWest Charter Challenge.
Presented by Graduate Research Association of Students in Public Health (GRASP), York University. What’s In That Glass?Sex, Gender, and the Water We Drink A free panel discussion exploring the issue of pharmaceuticals and disinfectant by-products in our drinking water – the state of the research, what is and is not known about the impact on sex and gender, and alternative routes for managing this environmental hazard.
WHEN: Wednesday February 17, 2010
TIME: 7pm
WHERE: Spadina Room, Courtyard Marriott Hotel, 475 Yonge St. Toronto
SUBWAY: between Wellesley & College; parking behind hotel ($8/hour)
SPEAKERS:
Pam Eliason, Senior Associate Director, Toxics Use Reduction Institute, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Prof. Deborah MacLatchy, Vice‐President Academic and Provost; Founding Fellow, Canadian Rivers Institute, Wilfrid Laurier University
Prof. Chris Metcalfe, Environmental and Resource Studies; Director, Institute for Watershed Science, Trent University
More info: nnewh1@yorku.ca
NNEWH websites: www.nnewh.org / www.womenandwater.ca
The Courtyard Marriott is a wheelchair accessible hotel. NNEWH Fellowship in Women's Health and the Environment**This competition is now CLOSED**
The National Network on Environments and Women’s Health (NNEWH) Graduate Fellowship in Women's Health and the Environment is an annual award designed to supp...
Read More "Consuming" Chemicals: Implications for Women’s Health - Policy ForumBased on our fall symposium's deliberations and on federal priorities, NNEWH will host a closed policy forum in Ottawa on "Consuming" Chemicals: Implications for Women’s Health. This fo...
Read More 44th CENTRAL Canadian Symposium on Water Quality ResearchThe NNEWH team presented "The gendered implications of chronic
chemical exposures through
Canadian drinking water: Preliminary
research findings" at the 44th CENTRAL Canadian Symposium on...
Read More The Push to Prescribe: Women & Canadian Drug PolicyThe Push to Prescribe:
Women & Canadian Drug Policy
Edited by Anne Rochon Ford and Diane Saibil
“A compelling book about one of the major societal problems of this decade: the over-consumpt...
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