School of Nursing News

The relationship between race and risk of exposure to pollutants is what inspired Ingrid Waldron, associate professor and health researcher at Dalhousie’s School of Nursing, to study environmental racism in Nova Scotia. Her recent projects focus on how the location of African Nova Scotian and Mi’kmaw communities near environmental hazards affects the health of citizens in the community. “There is a disproportionate amount of pollution in these communities of colour,” she says. “Most people agree if you have contaminates around you, you will have an elevated risk of illness.” Through the ENRICH (Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequalities and Community Health) Project, Waldron has helped put together a proposal for a province-wide public consultation on aboriginal, black and Acadian communities affected by environmental racism. The so-called Bill 111 was introduced back in April and debated again at Province House this past week.

November 26: Feature on Dr. Ingrid Waldron’s environmental racism project for the Coast:

http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/what-were-doing-right-in-halifax/Content?oid=5070088