Research

McMaster Institute of Environment & Health has mobilized interdisciplinary, collaborative research projects in the areas of:

  • Air Quality
  • Population Health
  • Policy
  • Determinants of Health

  • Environmental quality and human health
  • Respirable air particulates (PM10 and PM2.5): risk and human health

  • Emerging diseases
  • Environment and human reproduction
  • Environmental cancer epidemiology
  • GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and environmental and public health
  • Immigrant health
  • Palliative care

  • Applied ethics: convergence of health and environmental ethics
  • Environmental health policy: analysis and evaluation
  • Risk assessment and communication for environmental health issues

  • Environments (physical and social) as determinants of and pathways to health
  • Psychological-social effects of potential and perceived environmental threats
  • Social construction of chemical toxicity
  • Work, communities and health