RSI chairs and presents on panel sessions for the Toronto conference, “Building the Next Generation of Canadian Infrastructure: Defining a roadmap for optimizing infrastructure planning, implementation and operation” held on May 15 .  This inaugural conference, hosted by InfoNex, see more here recognizes that the next era of Canadian infrastructure must become more resilient, responsive, integrated…

Dr. Donald Mattison, RSI’s Senior Vice-President and Chief Medical Officer, has accepted an appointment as a University of South Carolina Health Sciences Distinguished Professor in the in the Arnold School of Public Health (ASPH).  The appointment noted that Dr. Mattison’s broad and deep career experience as a researcher and educator is impressive and valuable to USC.  Dr Mattison’s academic…

RSI’s Dr. Emma Hartnett chaired the recent Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA). The focus of the week-long event held March 11 to 15, 2019, was the update and consolidation of technical guidance documents to allow for a more current and coordinated approach to assessing microbiological hazards in food. For further information…

Calvin C. Willhite, an Associate Expert with Risk Sciences International working on a range of toxicological risk issues, was just announced as the recipient of the prestigious 2021 Arnold Lehman Award presented annually by the Society of Toxicology for outstanding contributions to evidence-based toxicology to improve public health. Dr. Willhite specializes in human health risk assessments for man-made…

Drs. Daniel Krewski and Franco Momoli recently contributed to an environmental research paper entitled: Cell phone use and the risk of glioma: are case-control study findings consistent with Canadian time trends in cancer incidence? The paper was published in Environmental Research (Elsevier). The paper seeks to advance the discussion regarding the controversy as to whether…

Developing a suite of watershed-scale climate models.

CPS has recently announced 13 new research awards totaling a little over $2.6 million. The awards are for research projects directed at answering critical questions in specific areas of food safety practices. Among this year’s topics: storage, sanitation, agricultural water, co-management and risk-based field sampling. Projects will begin in January 2019. RSI’s Emma Hartnett is…

RSI recently conducted an in-house training session in systematic review for its staff. The session featured a keynote presentation by Dr. Katya Tsaioun from Johns Hopkins University, who provided an overview of best practices in systematic review.  The training included two systemic applications of systematic review, and current software in systematic review was studied. The…

RSI is pleased to announce that Norman Shippee recently joined the team as a Climate and Applications Specialist. Dr. Shippee earned his PhD at the University of Victoria. He is an experienced researcher who has focused on establishing stakeholder-defined storm metrics to facilitate safe operations in the marine transportation field. Dr. Shippee has previously provided…

2017 was a record-setting year for devastating wildfires across Canada and throughout the world. The Weather Network spoke to Heather Auld, principal climate scientist about what we can expect for the 2018 wildfire season.  To see the video of what Heather had to say, click here.