Health Impacts of Uranium Mining on Indigenous Bodies
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Uranium Mining in Northern Saskatchewan: What You Need To Know Part 3―Health Impacts of Uranium Mining on Indigenous Bodies
Join host Beverly Andrews, Dr. Dale Dewar, and Professor Douglas Brugge for a deeper dive into information on the human health impacts of uranium mining.
Dr. Dale Dewar is a co-author with Florian Oelck of From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You. She is an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, an active member of the International Committee of the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada, a two-term member of the Canadian Friends Service Committee, and the former Executive Director of Physicians for Global Survival. An anti-nuclear activist since the 1980s, she has published articles and spoken at conferences about nuclear proliferation.
Douglas Brugge, Professor & Chair at the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine - Doug Brugge has a Ph.D. in cellular and developmental biology from Harvard University and an MS in industrial hygiene from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. For over a decade, he has directed the Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health, a series of community-based participatory research projects funded by NIEHS, NHLBI, NLM, EPA, HUD and the Kresge Foundation. CAFEH has about 200 publications, including over 50 on traffic-related ultrafine particle pollution and their association with health. He has worked in community collaborations with many neighbourhoods.
This podcast episode was edited and produced by Beverly Andrews.
This podcast was created from a live-stream webinar previously broadcast on Keepers of the Water's YouTube and Facebook channels on February 27th, 2024
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