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Air quality, human health and June bugs
Below you will find suggested Dalhousie University experts who can speak to current topics of regional, provincial, national, and international interest.
The impacts of wildfire smoke on human health
Dalhousie Expert: Dr. Daniel Rainham, Professor, Health Promotion and Sustainable Health Systems Co-lead and Senior Research Scientist, Healthy Populations Institute
Research Interests: Population health science, environmental epidemiology, health geography
Contact Information: daniel.rainham@dal.ca
June bugs – Why do they exist
Dalhousie Expert: Dr. Paul Manning, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant, Food and Environmental Sciences
Research Interests: Agroecology, biodiversity, entomology, and community science
Contact Information: paul.manning@dal.ca
Summer bug phobias – why are people scared of June bugs, ticks and moths etc.
Dalhousie Expert: Dr. Simon Sherry, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry
Research Specialties: Clinical psychology, depression, anxiety, personality, perfectionism, psychopathology, suicide, eating disorders, alcohol problems.
Contact: Simon.Sherry@dal.ca
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- Federal Budget
- Violent extremist groups, youth and cyber security, Halloween scares, and daylight savings time
- World Occupational Therapy Day
- Whale Sanctuary approved in NS
- Canadian Tire Data breach and cyber security
- Carney‑Trump meeting, ceasefire talks, protests/national guard deployment, and lice and pinworm treatment
- Ottawa denies Marineland request to export remaining beluga whales to China
- Dalhousie University has experts who can speak on the impacts of drought on blueberry crops, the Trump‑Putin summit, and the Global Plastics Treaty