Principal Investigators

Paul Demers
During the course of this survey, Dr. Paul Demers was a Professor and Director of the UBC School of Environmental Health (as of June 1, 2011 a part of the School of Population and Public Health). As of September 2010, Dr. Demers assumed his new role as Director of the Occupational Cancer Research Centre in Ontario. Although based in Toronto, Dr. Demers is still actively involved with the School of Population and Public Health. Dr. Demers holds a Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Scientist Award. He is both an occupational epidemiologist and an occupational hygienist. He has previously studied firefighters in Seattle, Portland, and Tacoma, and has funding from CIHR to study the relationship between exposure to noise and heart disease hospitalization among forest industry workers, and from Health Canada to study heart disease and air pollution.

Mieke Koehoorn
Dr. Mieke Koehoorn is an Assistant Professor with the UBC School of Population and Public Health and an Adjunct Scientist with the Institute for Work and Health in Toronto and has a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award. She is an occupational epidemiologist and is involved in a number of studies investigating occupational injuries and diseases among young workers, health care workers and custodians. Dr. Koehoorn is also participating in astudy (with Dr. Demers) funded by Health Canada to investigate the relationship between heart disease and air pollution.

Additional Researchers

Hugh Davies
Dr. Hugh Davies is a Professor with the UBC School of Population and Public Health. His research focuses on the health impacts of noise exposure, particularly on heart disease. He recently completed a study on cardio-vascular disease among sawmill workers. He will apply his expertise in occupational hygiene and retrospective exposure assessment to the study.

Michael Brauer
Dr. Michael Brauer is a Professor with the UBC School of Population and Public Health. His research focuses on the assessment of exposure and measurements of health impacts related to air quality.