Tag: Environmental Exposure

New environmental exposure data added to CanPath: Greenness, air quality, and accessibility

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CanPath is excited to continue collaborating with the CIHR-funded Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) by linking a third round of environmental exposure data to the national harmonized CanPath datasets. Since 2016, CANUE has gathered and standardized environmental exposure data on air and noise pollution, land use, community amenities, green spaces, climate, and socioeconomic conditions. This Read more about New environmental exposure data added to CanPath: Greenness, air quality, and accessibility[…]

Got Your Toe(nails)! Guinness World Record Revisited

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The Guinness World Records team is once again reflecting on the record held by the Atlantic PATH cohort. In a new article, “Got your toe(nails)! Scientific study holds largest collection of toenail clippings,” Katherine Gross revisits the collection of toenail samples from Atlantic PATH participants. In 2013, Atlantic PATH received a Guinness Book of World Records Read more about Got Your Toe(nails)! Guinness World Record Revisited[…]

Upcoming Webinar – CanPath Trainees Study Pollution and Disease

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Hybrid event: From air to ailment: trainees study pollution’s role in disease onset December 10, 2024 @ 1pmAST/12pmEST Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/from-air-to-ailment-trainees-study-pollutions-role-in-disease-onset-tickets-1080426387409 Are you curious about how environmental factors like air pollution affect our health? Join us for an engaging event where four MPH in Epidemiology students from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) share their cutting-edge research Read more about Upcoming Webinar – CanPath Trainees Study Pollution and Disease[…]

#PlaidForDad2023

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#PlaidForDad2023 — Prostate Cancer Awareness and Research Atlantic PATH welcomes our youngest team member(!) and continues the Plaid for Dad tradition raising awareness about prostate cancer in Canada. We have ongoing research on prostate cancer exploring environmental exposure to arsenic and cancer risk using toxicological and machine learning methods. This research stream has received and benefitted from Read more about #PlaidForDad2023[…]