Join esteemed U of T alumni and friends in Ottawa for a lecture exploring how harmful chemical exposures are driving emerging human health concerns and animal population declines.
- Reception & Presentation
- Remarks begins at 6:30 PM
- Q&A follows the presentation
Professor Melanie A. Woodin
President, University of Toronto
invites you to attend a reception and special presentation for University of Toronto alumni and friends:
Harmful Chemicals In and Around Us
by
Professor Miriam L. Diamond
Professor, Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment
University of Toronto
All of us, from infants to the elderly, birds and bees, are inevitably but unequally exposed to harmful chemicals. These exposures contribute to recent, concerning trends of health effects in humans and population declines in animal populations. Yet we have surprisingly little information on most chemicals: the rate of chemical production and the number of new chemicals being introduced far outstrips the capacity for assessment, let alone the capacity to develop and implement controls. Thus, we should act with precaution based on costs of inaction.
Biography
Miriam L. Diamond is a professor at the University of Toronto. For over 35 years, her research has advanced knowledge of chemical emissions, their transport processes, and resultant human and ecological exposure. She now focusses on chemicals management in national and international arenas. Miriam’s research on science and policy has been published in over 250 peer-reviewed articles and chapters and over 100 short articles, in addition to receiving media attention.
Miriam is the Vice-Chair of the International Panel on Chemical Pollution, the chemicals and waste expert of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility, and an “Environment Commissioner” of the Earth Commission under the Global commons Alliance. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. She was the co-chair of the Canadian Chemical Management Plan Science Committee from 2017 to 2021 and the co-chair of Ontario’s Toxic Reduction Scientific Expert Panel in 2008.
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