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This Week
Thesis Defense: Midori Courtice
Please plan to join Midori as she presents her thesis defense, "Asbestosis and general health among migrant shipbreakers from northern Bangladesh"
10:00am - 12:00pm, Thursday, February 11, 2010
NOTE: room location has changed
Room 424, 2206 East Mall, UBC, Vancouver, BC
Spring 2010 Seminar Series
"Nuts and Bolts of Protecting Young Workers: Injury prevention and changing the culture of health and safety." with Mary E. Miller, MN, RN, Teen Worker Specialist, Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Friday, February 12, 2010
Room 491, 2206 East Mall, UBC, Vancouver, BC
News
Congratulations to Jennifer Shum, winner of the AIHA BC Yukon Local Section Al Reigert award
Congratulations to Murarrat (Rimi) Nahid, the Northwest Occupational Health Conference Student Research/Scholarly Project Forum Winner. Her talk was "Occupational Noise
Induced Hearing Loss and Engineered Noise/Control: Knowledge and Perception in the Food Products Manufacturing Industry in British Columbia."
Congratulations to our fall, 2009 graduating students:
Robin VanDriel
Rimi Nahid
Yingying (Shirley) Wang
Congratulations to Wenqi Gan, who won best student abstract at the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology meeting in Dublin
Congratulations to Chun Yip Hon whose poster won best in show at the 2009 American Industrial Hygiene
Conference and Exhibition held recently in Toronto.
Congratulations to Imelda Wong, winner of a CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Doctoral CGS (2009 – 2012)
Congratulations to Pearl Siganporia, winner of the Kyle B. Dotson scholarship from the American Industrial Hygiene Foundation
Read the article "Green Warriors" featuring Dr. Mike Brauer.
Link to "CHER's" media
coverage of SOEH faculty and student research.
Link to News Archive.
Upcoming events
Two week reading break
Due to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, UBC students will get a two week reading break, from Monday, February 15 to Friday, February 26, 2010. The university will remain open, but no classes will be held, and the SOEH Seminar Series will not run on Friday, Feb. 19th or 26th.
Spring 2010 Seminar Series
"Joint Process in Occupational Health and Safety: Going from Paper to Practice" with Georgina Hackett, MASc, PEng, CRSP, Program Project Manager, Affiliate OHS Services, Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare (OHSAH) in BC
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Friday, March 5, 2010
Room 491, 2206 East Mall, UBC, Vancouver, BC
Spring 2010 Seminar Series
"Burrard Bridge - Battle for a Cultural Shift" with George Chow, Vancouver City Council
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Friday, March 12, 2010
Room 491, 2206 East Mall, UBC, Vancouver, BC
Spring 2010 Seminar Series
"Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble: The Trouble with Boil Water Advisories in British Columbia" with Renuka Grover, MSc Candidate, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Friday, March 19, 2010
Room 491, 2206 East Mall, UBC, Vancouver, BC
7th Annual
Air Quality & Health Workshop
Airwaves: Improving Air Quality & Health Communication
8:00am - 4:30pm, Thursday, March 25, 2010
Four Seasons Hotel, 791 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC
BC Yukon AIHA Annual General Meeting
There will be no seminar this week due to the AIHA AGM.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Good Friday - UBC closed
There will be no seminar this week as UBC is closed for a statutory holiday
Friday, April 2, 2010
Spring 2010 Seminar Series
"Bending over backwards: looking for cheap and efficient ways of measuring trunk posture for research and practice" with Robin Van Driel, MSc,
Occupational Hygienist, Levelton Consulting Ltd
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Friday, April 9, 2010
Room 491, 2206 East Mall, UBC, Vancouver, BC
Link to BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research
Network Conference Calendar
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