FNEHIN - First Nations Environmental Health Innovation Network

Chemicals Management Plan Workshops

Chemicals Management Plan Workshops on the Domestic Substances List Inventory Update in Halifax, Vancouver Montreal and Toronto.

CEC Talks on Indoor Air Quality May 30

On may 30th at 2pm Est, two Alaskan public health field workers share discoveries made and challenges faced trying to tackle a crucial North American public health issue.

INVITATION_CECTalks_Moving_beyond_a_low-cost_nocost_healthy_homes_program_the_Alaskan_experience.pdf

New FNEHIN Website Arriving Soon

FNEHIN will be launching a new website in the next few weeks! Stay tuned for the launch and look forward to new updates!

United World Water Day Dance, Mar 22

Indigenous Foods/Ecological Knowledge Symposium, Seattle, Washington, May 1-2

3rd Annual Aboriginal Health Summer Institute, Victoria, BC, Apr 29 - May 3, 2013

Webinar: Social Determinants of Health Wed Mar 6

Indigenous Health Leadership Institute, Apr 5-7, 2013 New Mexico

International Union for Health Promotion and Education World Conference, Thailand, Aug 25–29

Call for Proposals-Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network Prairie Research Centre

Masters Fellowships Univ. of Northern BC

Gathering Our Voices on Health, BC, March 19-22, 2013

FNHMA’s 3rd Annual Conference - Niagara Falls September 17-19, 2013

Canadian Public Health Association’s 2013 Annual Conference, Ottawa, June 9-12

2013 Best Start Annual Conference Feb 2013

First Nations, Metis and Inuit Health Research Symposium Mar 2013

First Nations Conference on Sustainable Buildings & Communities Feb 2013

3rd National Mental Health Conference Mar 2013

Two Doctoral Scholarships - indigenous knowledge & fisheries

Training Sessions on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012

Two Masters Scholarship Opportunities, Dalhousie, NS

Influence through knowledge Public Health Conf. Nov 26-29, QC

Job: Information Specialist, NCCEH, BC

Job: Knowledge Translation Scientist, BC

Job: Director, Office of Indigenous Health, Alberta

Canada’s Next Green Journalist (youth contest)

Job: Facilitator, Indigenous Cultural Competency Program, BC

Research Coordinator Job, UBC Nov 7 deadline

Job - Coordinator, Aboriginal Community Engagement, Prince George Nov. 4 deadline

Indigenous Food First (IFF!) contest

When Every Drop Counts: Initiatives in Indian Country (webinar)

Conference - Prevention and Mgmt of Childhood & Adolescent Obesity, Oct 24-26 Halifax, NS

CSSH Conference Sociological - Contributions to Health Equity, Oct 25-27, 2012 Ottawa, ON

Food Safety 2012 Symposium “Food Safety - Risky Business?” Guelph, ON Oct 16, 2012

Web based course: Roots of Health Inequality

15th Canadian National Drinking Water Conference, Oct 21-24 Kelowna

Webinar Aug 2: Increasing Resilience to Extreme Heat Events in Canadian communities

First Nations Health Manager Association Annual Conf. Vancouver, Sept 18-20

Children’s Environmental Health Training Program, Vancouver Aug 20-24, 2012

15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health Aug 5-10 Fairbanks, AK

Health Impact Assessment 2012 International Conference Aug 29-31, Quebec City, QC

New Research:Bisphenol A exposure linked to brain tumor diagnosis.

Conference - Healthy People Healthy Places Sept 16-19 Blue Mountains, ON

Native Health Research Conference, July 16-19, 2012, Seattle, WA

Meeting: Improving environmental health of communities and ecosystems, July 10-11 (New Orleans)

Two Doctoral Scholarship Opportunities: Indigenous Knowledge and Fisheries, June 30

Post-Doctoral Opportunity: Indigenous Knowledge and Fisheries, June 20

How do I get my research in Aboriginal health funded? Summer Institute June 13-15, MB

International Gathering on Cultural Safety, June 11-14, BC

2012 World Indigenous Housing Conference June 11-15 BC

Conference - Healthy Environments Across Generations June 7-8, New York, NY

Conference - Creating and Sustaining Healthy Environments June 11-14, Edmonton, AB

Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research Summer School June 26-28, Montreal, QC

Summer School - Community Based Methods and Ethics in Indigenous Research, June 16-19. London ON

Ecosocial Approaches to Aboriginal Health - Graduate Students Gathering June 22-25 Montreal, QC

Summer Institute on Research in Aboriginal Health May 28-June 1, Nova Scotia

Aboriginal Health Research Writing Retreat, BC, May 24-27

Review:  What Fish Should I eat?

Int’l Polar Year 2012 Conference - From Knowledge to Action April 22-27, Montréal, QC

Gateways North: Expansion, Convergence and Change, The Pas, MB, May 3, 2012

Summer Institute - Advancing Health Equity, Building on Experience May 15-16, Kelowna, BC

Global Conference on Oceans, Climate and Security May 21-23, 2012 (USA)

Obesogens: An Environmental Link to Obesity (research)

Funding - Grassroots Communities Mining Mini-Grant

New Study: Ubiquitous bisphenol A linked to adult obesity, insulin resistance

CBC ‘Nature of Things’ Jan 12 & 15 - chemical pollutants and obesity

8th Fire: Creating a New Relationship with Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples (New TV program Jan 2012)

Popular First Nation cancer care course expanding to all provinces

Recognizing and Preventing Overexposure to Methylmercury from Fish and Seafood Consumption

Study: Mercury affects subsistence-fed sled dogs in Yukon River

Study - Marine food pollutants as a risk factor for hypoinsulinemia and type 2 diabetes

Summary - National Health Forum 2011

Study : human health risk associated with exposure to chlorination in drinking water

Study: Impacts of shale gas and oil extraction on the environment and human health

Canadian Public Health Association - Call for Abstracts

Children’s Environmental Health Webinar, November 10th, 2011

Research - Relationship between road and railway noise with blood pressure and hypertension

Research - Environmental toxin Bisphenol A can affect newborn brain

Study: BPA may affect child behavior

Feeding Mind, Body and Spirit: A Gathering Dec 6-7, 2011 Toronto

Mercury submission - AFN to Environment Canada

Practical Public Health Tools for Climate Change Adaptation (Virtual Forum) Oct 21

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17 new factsheets posted under Resources & Publication ‘fact sheets’

summary of Environmental Health workshop from International Indigenous Summit on Energy & Mining

New call for proposals by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)

The 2012-2013 NFNECP and DWQP Call for Proposals are now open!

NFNECP) “>The National First Nations Environmental Contaminants Program (NFNECP)

Montreal 2011 Ecocity World Summit

UNEP launches Safe Planet website

International Indigenous Summit on Energy and Mining, Niagara Falls, June 27-29, 2011

10th Annual Canadian Rural Health Research meeting, Richmond, BC October 20-22, 2011

Counting on the Environment: The Contribution of Forests to Rural Livelihoods, 15 June 2011, UK

1st International Conference on Food and Environment, 21 - 23 June 2011, United Kingdom

Environmental Health Conference, Apr 20 & May 4, 2011 (two part) Toronto, ON

Indigenous Wisdom and Geopolitics Article

Approach to Consultation - see Grand Council Treaty #3’s Great Earth Law

http://www.gct3.net/grand-chiefs-office/laws-and-policies/

NEW links to VIDEOS under Resources & Publications

find First Nations Environmental Health videos and links to TV episodes in the drop-down menu of Resources & Publications

Conference: Growing Old in a Changing Climate, May 25-26, 2011

http://www.sfu.ca/fc2011/

Community-based Health Resarch: A Summer Institute: Weaving the Tapestry , Regina, SK June 20-24

Traditional Foods Summit , March 28-29, 2011, Seattle