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Air Quality and Your Health

Toronto the Good?

Tuesday, September 25th, 5 p.m.
Bar Italia
582 College Street, Toronto
Please RSVP: cafescientifique@cihr-irsc.gc.ca  

Join us for discussions, debates and refreshments. This free event is presented by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and its Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health.

Breathe in, breathe out.

We do it 900 times every hour, 20,000 times a day. Taking a breath shouldn't cost you your life. But each year in Toronto, an estimated 1,700 people die prematurely because of air pollution and 6,000 are admitted to hospital.

Learn more about some of the biggest health impacts of air pollution, areas where pollution is the worst and possible policy changes to reduce the problem.

Experts:

Dr. Murray Finkelstein
Mt. Sinai Hospital

Dr. Malcom Sears
Research Director
Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health
McMaster University

Dr. Quentin Chiotti
Climate Change
Programme Director & Senior Scientist
Pollution Probe

Moderator:

Dr. Peter Liu
Scientific Director
CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health