Free Public Forum on the Growing Trend Towards Biomonitoring Studies

The National Network on Environments and Women’s Health presents a free public forum on the growing trend towards biomonitoring* studies, their promise and pitfalls, their social significance, their gender implications and the ethical questions that they raise.

WHEN: Wednesday January 26 2011, 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Novella Room, Bluma Appel Salon, 2^nd Floor, Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street (one block north of Bloor) **Wheelchair accessible venue**
Subway: Yonge & Bloor
Parking: HBC Parking Garage off Asquith Avenue

SPEAKERS:
Sharyle Patton, Director, Health and Environment Program, Commonweal (environmental research institute), Bolinas, California
Andrew Black, Policy Analyst, Assembly of First Nations, (First Nations Biomonitoring Initiative)

*Biomonitoring is a scientific technique for assessing human exposures to natural and synthetic chemicals, based on sampling and analysis of an individual’s tissues and fluids (Environmental Health Research Foundation).