| Purpose
and Goals
It is now
universally recognized that poor air quality has adverse impacts
on human health, and research confirms that residents in some
areas of Canada are exposed to levels of air pollutants associated
with morbidity and mortality. However, the total impact of
current levels and trends of air pollution alongside current
policies and those slated to be implemented in the near future
is not well known.
The primary purpose of this workshop is to
facilitate communication between policymakers, scientists,
modelers, and other stakeholders to identify critical policy
needs, key issues, and gaps in knowledge for policy analysis.
Broadly, the workshops will be driven by three main themes/questions:
- What is the health significance
of air pollution?
- Are there available models and
analysis adequate to inform policy at some level?
- What are the key policy questions
that should be addressed by models?
Description
- presentations by experts who will provide
an update on current knowledge of air pollution levels and
related health effects from national and local perspectives
- presentations of specific examples by experienced
modelers who have tackled the problems of estimating health
impacts of air pollution and policies which affect air quality,
and predicting the potential impacts of future policies
- An exploration from various stakeholder
perspectives of what the critical policy needs and questions
are, including identification of important questions which
may not yet have been addressed by the modeling community
- Formal interaction between stakeholders
via breakout discussion sessions with a report and final
plenary discussion
- Posters and display tables available for
perusal
A scoping document, which will be sent to
all participants, will be produced from the workshop. If stakeholder
agree, this workshop may lead to a second, broader workshop
to take place in Autumn 2005. In this case, the scoping document
will provide a foundation for planning this next workshop.
Presentations
Workshop objectives:
Health Impacts? Analysis Capacity?, and Policy Issues?
John Shortreed - Executive Director,
NERAM
Quentin Chiotti
- Air Programme Director, Pollution Probe
The Basics – Air Pollution levels
and Health Effects
Chair: Louise Aubin (Peel Region Health)
Steve Clarkson -
Director, Environmental Contaminants Bureau,
Health Canada - National
Perspective
Peggy Farnsworth
- Director, Transboundary Air Issues, Environment Canada
- National Perspective
Monica Campbell -
Toronto Public Health - Local
Perspective, Toronto and Region
Murrary Finkelstein - McMaster
Institute of Environmental and Health - Measuring
the Health Impacts in Toronto and Hamilton
Jay Barclay - (Senior Policy Advisor,
Environment Canada), Quentin Chiotti,
John Shortreed, and Stephanie Gower
(University of Waterloo) - A
framework for the Workshop: Approaching the 3 Questions
Analysis Examples and Issues - Health
Impacts? Analysis Capacity?, and Policy Issues?
Chair: Eva Ligeti (Clean Air Partnership)
Anton Davies - RWDI
- GTA Initiative/Large Urban
Areas
Jesse Thé - Lakes Environmental
- Minnesota Analysis
Jeff Brook - Environment Canada
- Source Apportionment
Dave Stieb - Air Health Effects
Division, Health Canada - AQBAT
Phil Blagden - Meteorological Service
of Canada, Environment Canada - AQI
Policy Perspectives - What are the
Analysis needs?
Chair: Kim Perrotta (OPHA)
Stakeholders - statements of analysis
issues related to stakeholder policy perspectives
Posters
Dr. Anthony Ciccone,
Ciara De Jong, Jean
Yves Urbain, Golder Associates Angela
Li-Muller, Toronto Public Health, Mark
Rupke, WES, Diane Michelangeli,
York University,
Air Emissions from Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant
Michael Donohue - Environmental
Economics, Environment Canada - Environmental
Benefits of Improved Air Quality (français
version-pdf)
Dr. Rakesh Singh - Waterloo Cenre
for Atmospheric Sciences, University of Waterloo - MicroFac
- A New Microscale Motor Vehicle
Emission Model: Determination of Neighbourhood Air Pollution
for Human Exposure Assessment
Stephanie Gower, Stephen McColl,
John Hicks, John Shortreed, Lorraine Craig
- University of Waterloo - Development
of a Health Effects-based Priority Ranking System for Air
Emissions Reductions from Oil Refineries in Canada
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