Join COEH for a virtual research seminar with Dr. Alvaro Osornio Vargas on “The more, the merrier… Interdisciplinarity in Environmental Health”
Dr. Alvaro Osornio Vargas studies the health impacts of air pollutant mixtures at the experimental and population level from an interdisciplinary perspective and has over 180 publications. He obtained his Medical, MSc and PhD Degrees from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico and postdoctoral training at the University of Maryland and the NIEHS. Dr. Osornio Vargas was a researcher at the Mexican National Institutes of Health and left in August 2009 to join the Department of Paediatrics, University of Alberta, to develop a research program for the Children’s Environmental Health Clinic. Upon his arrival at the University of Alberta, he started a collaborative interdisciplinary team to study the geographic distribution of chemicals emitted into the air and various children’s conditions, for example, adverse birth outcomes in Canada. The group includes researchers in toxicology, epidemiology, computing sciences, geographic information systems, pediatrics, obstetrics, cardiology, and knowledge users. The work focuses on using public databases to provide potentially useful information in understanding environmental influences on health. His collective work supported changes in Mexico’s air quality standards and informed the ones in the USA. Also, he developed and started teaching a graduate course in Pediatrics, Children’s Health, and the Environment at the University of Alberta. His work as an educator resulted in the formation of highly qualified personnel in Canada, the USA, and Mexico. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Schools of Public Health at the University of Michigan, Rutgers University, and the University of Alberta.
To join zoom lecture contact Amelia Ventura.
