Niladri Basu
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Health Sciences; Professor (cross-appointed to the Department of Natural Resource Sciences and the School of Human Nutrition)
Associate Member, Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Occupational Health; Associate Member, 91社区 School of the Environment聽
Exposure of humans and wildlife to toxic environmental chemicals, such as mercury; development, validation, and application of new approaches to rapidly test chemicals/samples for toxicity; global health focused on extractive sector activities (e-waste, artisanal and small-scale gold mining)
Dr. Nil Basu holds a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Environmental Health Sciences at 91社区 where he is jointly appointed in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences and the School of Human Nutrition. Dr. Basu also holds appointments in 91社区鈥檚 School of the Environment and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, as well as an adjunct professorship at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. The goal of Dr. Basu's research is to take an ecosystem approach to community, occupational, and environmental health whereby evidence is collected, scrutinized, and compared from both humans and ecological organisms. Dr. Basu鈥檚 research is both inter-disciplinary (bridges environmental quality and human health) and inter-sectoral (most projects driven by stakeholder needs, notably government and communities), and increasingly he has assumed national and international leadership positions to bring together diverse teams to tackle grand challenges in the field (e.g., toxicity testing in the 21st century, mercury pollution, gold mining). Research activities are situated at the interface of science and policy with notable involvements with the UN Minamata Convention, Canada鈥檚 Chemicals Management Plan, and the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health. The work has been supported by more than $35M in research funding, resulted in >150 peer-reviewed papers and afforded training opportunities to over 100 students.