Our friends at HEEDS.org are sponsoring an award of $5,000 to honor their colleague Lou Guillette, Jr. This award is given annually to an outstanding young scientist working on some aspect of endocrine disruption research. My legacy to science is not just the work I did-that’s just brick and walls. Read more…
Our member Jean-François Blais gave an interview about the conclusions of one of our 14 scientific articles published in our special issue on endocrine disruptors. Currently, treatment systems let, on average, half of the emerging contaminants found in wastewater go through. However, scientists are developing new technologies to make infrastructure Read more…
Our co-director Isabelle Plante and our thematic leader Cathy Vaillancourt gave an interview about the conclusions of their scientific article published in our special issue on endocrine disruptors. Endocrine disruptors, molecules disrupting our hormones, are everywhere in our daily lives. However, their alarming effects on human health are little known Read more…
ICEDA and its members have written a Special Issue of 14 scientific articles published in the Environmental Research on endocrine disruptors What have we learned about endocrine disruption over the past 25 years? How did we progress as an international society on screening and regulating endocrine disrupting chemicals? In total, Read more…
Robitaille used several techniques to demonstrate the effectiveness of this type of approach, one of which involved making an inventory of all the tools available to regulatory authorities ”She conducted this literature review in collaboration with scientists who are members of ICEDA. The publication appeared in the Environmental Research journal’s Read more…
Effluent Impacts on Wetland and Watershed Health Project Description Both MSc and PhD opportunitie (fully funded) are available to investigate aspects of wetland and watershed health and functioning with a focus on the effects of effluent release on aquatic and riparian communities. Effluent release has complex and poorly-defined impacts on Read more…
Soapbox Science is looking for bilingual women who work in science and want to talk to the general public about their research The Soapbox Science event will take place in June 2022 in Quebec City and will give residents of the city the opportunity to interact with 12 dynamic women Read more…
The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health of the School of Public Health (ESPUM) of the Université de Montréal is seeking an Assistant Professor who will work in the field of environmental or occupational health, with expertise in toxicology The Department is looking for a professor to teach environmental health Read more…
A research team from UQAM and INRS is inviting participants to share with them the effects that sanitary measures have had on working conditions and health This survey has been approved by UQAM’s ethics committee and is completely confidential. The questionnaire takes approximately 15 to 25 minutes to fill out. Read more…
For BPA, lead, and other toxic chemicals, accumulating science consistently lowers the levels we consider safe Our member Dr Laura Vandenberg, gave an interview on this topic to Environmental Health News. Looking at groups of toxic chemicals decade by decade by decade, we recognize that less and less and less Read more…