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Meg Sears

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Chair of Prevent Cancer Now Ottawa, ON
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About Meg Sears

With Prevent Cancer Now, Meg Sears champions healthy, sustainable choices by individuals, and on behalf of the public by governments - choices based on rigorous science, via laws, policy and regulation. At the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, she focuses on information and methods to link environmental exposures to health. Dr. Sears' work includes: writing the Medical Perspective on Environmental Sensitivities for the Canadian Human Rights Commission, leading to a policy under the Canadian Human Rights Act; carrying out a scoping review on toxic elements (arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury) funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council; authoring modules for the Canadian Committee on Indoor Air Quality; and collaborating with other Canadian organizations to further public and environmental health. She was originally trained in chemical engineering and applied chemistry at the University of Toronto, worked in energy research, and then returned to academia to complete doctoral research in biochemical engineering at McGill University.

6 Articles

The silent culprit in the monarch's decline

Ending the “radio silence” on wireless radiation should be a late-breaking research topic for Canadian leadership as the country hosts the COP15 biodiversity conference, writes Meg Sears.
Negotiating survival
Opinion, Climate Solutions Reporting | December 6th 2022

Canada’s chemical romance stands in the way of the right to a healthy environment

Facing droughts, fires, heat domes, crop failures, floods and Arctic blasts, environmental protection cannot be blind to climate change.
Opinion | March 15th 2022

Canada has waited long enough to ban chlorpyrifos

Canada’s three-year phaseout of the toxic insecticide chlorpyrifos risks ongoing harms, as well as dumping of this product on our market, write Meg Sears and Mary Lou McDonald.
Opinion | May 25th 2021

Chronic disease is on the rise — and stopping it requires a new Canadian Environmental Protection Act

As Canadians weather the COVID-19 pandemic, severe cases mirror a slower epidemic of pre-existing conditions, Meg Sears writes.
Opinion | December 16th 2020
Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor

Save money, save lives: Four steps for Ottawa to link health and the environment

A 21st-century Canadian Environmental Protection Act could save health care dollars.
Letters to the Editor
Opinion, Politics | October 10th 2017
bee, pollinator, pesticides, Health Canada, Ecojustice, Pest management regulatory agency

Phasing out Canada’s number one insecticide – a great corporate strategy?

Is the phasing-put of the largest selling "bee-killing" insecticide in Canada actually a victory for science and the environment, or a well-worn strategy to swell corporate coffers?
Opinion, Politics | March 23rd 2017

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