Iqaluit water crisis
Angela Mashford-Pringle
Assistant Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Bi-culturedness
- COVID-19 impact on racialized groups
- Cultural Safety for non-Indigenous people
- Indigenous data sovereignty
- Indigenous early childhood development and education
- Indigenous food systems
- Indigenous health and education
- Indigenous health policy in Canada and the United States
- Indigenous land-based learning and pedagogies
- Indigenous self-determination and self-governance – specifically in health systems
- Mental health & addictions support for remote communities
- Self-governance
Office: 416-978-8771
Email: angela.mashford.pringle@utoronto.ca
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Anna Banerji
Associate Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- COVID-19 - Heart inflammation in youth
- COVID-19 - Helped with SARS as an infection disease specialist
- COVID-19 - Infection & vaccination rates in children
- Health of Syrian refugees
- Health policy
- Indigenous health
- International health
- Inuit health
- Mitigating health risks after natural disasters
- Potential for viral infections & water-borne diseases
- Refugee health
- Tropical medicine / infectious disease
- Why is there a spike in refugees needing assistance
Office: 416-978-8319
Email: anna.banerji@utoronto.ca
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Chandrakant Shah
Professor Emeritus
Hon. Staff Physician, Anishnawbe Health

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Aboriginal cultural safety
- Aboriginal health
- Disability in aboriginal people
- Ethno-racial diversity in health care
- FASD and criminal justice system
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- Indigenous/Aboriginal health
- Poverty and health
- Spirituality and health
- Unemployment and health
Office: 905-990-5111
Mobile: 437-992-5111
Languages (in addition to English): Gujarati
Email: c.shah@utoronto.ca
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Charles Q Jia
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Faculty: Applied Science and Engineering
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Air and water pollution abatement technologies
- Applied inorganic sulphur chemistry
- Biochar production and utilization
- Carbon capture and storage
- Clean air and water technologies
- Climate change
- Energy storage technologies
- Environmental sulphur chemistry
- Fate
- Industrial waste treatment and utilization
- Industrial waste utilization
- Transport and impacts of atmospheric pollutants
Office: 416-946-3097
Home: 416-498-6541
Languages (in addition to English): Mandarin and English
Email: cq.jia@utoronto.ca
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Miriam Diamond
Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Air and water pollution
- Cities
- Environmental destruction & contamination
- Human exposure
- Impact of war on environmental pollution
- Indoor environment
- Infrastructure damage & long-term health impacts
- Toxic Chemicals
Office: 416-978-1586
Mobile: 416-573-2977
Website
Email: miriam.diamond@utoronto.ca
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