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
