RSI and Engineers Canada are partnering to offer an online version of the introductory workshop on the PIEVC Protocol for infrastructure climate risk and vulnerability assessment. Online Workshop: Integrating Climate Risk into Infrastructure Development: The PIEVC Protocol April 2, 4, 9, 11, and 16, 2019;  11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. EST This workshop  will provide participants…

Following up on the recommendations put forth by the Expert Management Panel on River Flood Mitigation, the Environmental and Safety Management (ESM) and Water Resources (WS) business units of the City of Calgary are currently assessing how to best develop a suite of watershed-scale climate models to capture various weather event scenarios that may affect the…

Risk Sciences International CEO, Greg Paoli and RSI senior experts Emma Hartnett and Paul Price, have co-authored a new peer-reviewed publication highlighting the critical role of probabilistic exposure assessments (PEAs) in protecting public health. Supported by the Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences (IAFNS), the study demonstrates how PEAs provide a more…

Risk Sciences International (RSI), as members of a consulting team with Stantec, along with the Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation (OFNTSC), has won an Award of Merit from the Consulting Engineers of Ontario for the First Nations Infrastructure Resilience Toolkit (FN-IRT). The Consulting Engineers of Ontario Awards showcases projects that enrich society through application of creativity, ingenuity, and leadership…

Risk Sciences International (RSI) investigators Greg Paoli, Shintaro Hagiwara and Daniel Krewski collaborated with investigators from the US Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure (CCTE) on the development of an analytical framework to evaluate alternative chemical toxicity testing strategies, meeting a need identified by the US National Research Council in its 2009 report on Science and…

This issue of QuarterWatch analyzes MedWatch Reports from the third quarter of 2015. This issue identifies major differences in reports of cancer associated with drugs for psoriasis, a common skin disorder affecting an estimated 7.5 million people. While corticosteroid and other topical drugs are sufficient for many cases, potent immunosuppressant drugs are used in increasing…

Because there is limited information available concerning the use of psychiatric drugs among the US adult population, Drs Moore and Mattison sought to characterize adult use of psychiatric drugs using publicly available, nationally representative data.  These analyses demonstrate that 1 of 6 US adults reported taking psychiatric drugs at least once during 2013, but with…

Engineers Canada is a partner with the German development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) in the execution of their Enhanced Climate Services for Infrastructure Investment Project. RSI’s Dr. Neil Comer provided climate and climate change expertise supporting the planned construction of a major infrastructure development sited in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam.…

Leading up to February 11 and 12, 2020, Risk Sciences International had the privilege of assisting Health Canada in its organization of the Country Foods Forum. The event attracted a number of experts in country foods risk assessment from across Canada. Participants and speakers represented a broad cross section of stakeholders ranging from scientists to…

Adverse effects of drugs among the elderly should be given special attention when considering a pharmacological intervention. Two recent papers using large electronic health records have explored the impact of drugs with anticholinergic properties. The first, “Associations between Anticholinergic Burden and Adverse Health Outcomes in Parkinson Disease” view here used a HealthFacts database (Cerner Corporation, Kansas…