Each member of the EAC has academic and professional standing in their respective area of expertise, and we are very grateful to them for their insight.
Michael has spent nearly 35 years in the field of environmental and public health advocacy. He helped found the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain in 1980, and was the Coalition’s co-Executive Coordinator until 1990. Most recently, his work contributed to passage of the supporting Smoke-Free Ontario by Reducing Contraband Tobacco Act, which received Royal Assent in June 2011.
Dr. Lanphear is a Clinician Scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital and Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. His primary goal is to help quantify and ultimately prevent disease and disability – like asthma, learning problems and ADHD – due to exposures to environmental contaminants and pollutants. Over the past decade, Dr. Lanphear has become increasingly vexed by our inability to control the “pandemic of consumption” – the largely preventable, worldwide epidemic of chronic disease and disability due to industrial pollutants, environmental contaminants and excess consumption. He is leading an effort to build an online Atlas of Environmental Health to enhance public understanding of how environmental influences impact human health.
Shanna is a Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine. Her work examines the impact of environmental exposures on reproductive health and neurodevelopment. She conducts long term studies of pregnant women and their children to better understand how prenatal and early childhood exposure to stressors, including chemicals commonly found in the environment such as phthalates and bisphenol-A, impact the reproductive health and development of children.
Miriam, a professor at University of Toronto, has been investigating chemical contaminants for over 25 years. Her research involves quantifying emissions and fate of contaminants in indoor and outdoor environments, and exposure to humans and ecosystems. This research, as well as through involvement in various governmental and non-governmental initiatives, has helped to inform chemical management in Canada and beyond.
John is widely regarded as an expert on climate change and international affairs. His research includes the science and policy of global and climate change and the vulnerability of Canada to the threat of climate change.
Dr. Harvey pursues research in the areas of computer climate modelling as well as options to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases associated with energy use. Recently he has focused on the development of comprehensive scenarios for the elimination of global CO2 emissions within this century.
Ray Tomalty is Principal of Smart Cities Research Services and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Urban Planning at McGill University. He specializes in research on smart growth and urban sustainability.
Marcy has worked at the forefront of regional planning for the past 15 years. Through her various roles at the Neptis Foundation, Marcy has been able to use her quantitative, spatial analysis expertise to develop methods for measuring and monitoring how city-regions change over time to help inform and shape urban planning policy.
Ralph Pentland, President | Ralbet Enterprises Inc.
Ralph Pentland has over 50 years experience in water and environmental policy and management – three decades with the Canadian federal government, a decade in international consulting, and a decade working with a wide variety of Canadian non-governmental and academic organizations.