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PUBLIC LECTURE: Pesticides, Women and International
Development: an ecosystem approach to human health - Part of the Ecohealth
Lecture Series. Tuesday, FEB 13 AT 7 P.M
PLACE: Auditorium A, Sir Charles Tupper Building, 5849 University Ave.,
Halifax. Elizabeth May will chair the evening presentation.
SPEAKERS: 1] Dr. Leslie London, University of Capetown, South Africa
on "Pesticides, Social Justice and Women Agricultural Workers in South
Africa: A Developing Country Perspective" . Dr. London has postgraduate
qualifications in Epidemiology, Occupational Health and Community Health.
He
also holds a doctorate in Community Health for an investigation in the
neurotoxic effects of pesticides on the health of farm workers exposed to
organophospate insecticides.
2] Dr. Donald Cole, Institute for Work and Health,
Ontario on "Changing Agroecosystem Management to Reduce Pesticide Use and
Improve Human Health" Dr. Cole is a Senior Scientist, in Workplace
Studies, at the
Institute or Work and Health of Ontario, and Associate Professor,
departments of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Geography, at
McMaster
University. He is also a Royal College specialist in Occupational Medicine
and Community Medicine.
The Ecohealth Lecture Series is an annual lecture series, organised through
the Academic Fellowship of the International Development Research Centre of
Canada. It seeks to promote awareness and discussion of an ecosystem
approach to human health, based on transdisciplinary concepts,
gender-based analyses and participative methods to improve ecosystem
management.
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