Emerging Health and Environment Issues for the New Millennium...

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I thought  people might be interested. Rochelle

Emerging Health and Environment Issues for the New Millennium...
Open Invitation to a Community Workshop
Thursday, August 5, 1999, Halifax, Nova Scotia

The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) has
embarked on a year-long process to identify issues that are likely to be
most important to Canada's environment and economy for the first decade of
the new millennium.

As part of its meeting in Halifax from August 4-6, 1999, the NRTEE will
co-sponsor, with the Nova Scotia Community College, a community workshop to
explore emerging challenges and concerns in the environment and health area.
The comments received at this meeting will assist the National Round Table
in reaching conclusions about policy priorities for the future.

Emerging Health and Environment Issues for the New Millennium will be held
on August 5, 1999 at the Kenneth C. Rowe Heritage Hall, Pier 21, Halifax.
The meeting is open to the public, and everyone is welcome to attend.

Emerging Health and Environment Issues for the New Millennium
Co-hosted by the NRTEE and the Nova Scotia Community College
Kenneth C. Rowe Heritage Hall, Pier 21, 1055 Marginal Road, Halifax, Nova
Scotia
7:00 - 9:30 p.m.

Panelists:

Dr. Judy Guernsey
Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology,
Dalhousie University
Dr. Guernsey's work has focused on environmental and occupational
epidemiology and its application to global ecosystem health.

Dr. Donna Mergler
Director of CINBIOSE, 
Université du Québec à Montréal 
Dr. Mergler has spent over 28 years researching and teaching effects of
toxic substances on the central nervous system and the effects of working
conditions on workers' health.

Mr. Frank Metzger
President of the Nova Scotia Allergy and Environmental Health Association
and Director of Marketing and Sales Worldwide, EIN Publishing
Mr. Metzger is the President of the Nova Scotia Allergy and Environmental
Health Association, a non-profit organization concerned with issues of
environmental illness and related issues. 

Dr. Colin Soskolne
Professor, Department of Public Health Science, University of Alberta and
recently returned from the World Health Organization
Dr. Soskolne has recently returned from a year sabbatical leave as Visiting
Scientist with the World Health Organization where he organized "Global
Ecological Integrity: Implications of 'Sustainable Development' for Human
Health," a workshop that addressed concerns about reports of collapsing life
support (which includes climate change) and the implications for human
health.

Elizabeth May 
Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada and Vice-Chair of the NRTEE 
will introduce the meeting,

and

Raymond Ivany 
President of the Nova Scotia Community College and member of the NRTEE 
will moderate the evening.




_________________________________
Rochelle Owen
Community Animation Program
16th Floor, Queen Square
45 Alderney Drive
Dartmouth, N.S.
B2Y 2N6
902-426-2578 (ph)
902-426-2062 (fax)
http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/community/

CAP Atlantic provides information, training and animation to community
groups working on issues that link human health and the environment. 



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