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Project Team

RISKcom is maintained by a project team comprised of a Science Panel and a Communication Panel, project staff, and a large number of contributors, including graduate students in risk science at the University of Ottawa.  All content on the site is reviewed by members of the Science Panel and the Communication Panel.

Science Panel

  • Nicholas Birkett (Panel Chair), MD, MSc, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Community Medicine; Associate Director, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

  • Melvin E. Andersen, Ph.D., DABT, CIH, Distinguished Fellow, Associate Director, Institute for Chemical Safety Sciences,   Senior Investigator, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, U.S.A.

  • Neil Cashman, MD, FRCP(C), CAHS, Professor and Senior investigator at the Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia; Director of the University of British Columbia ALS Centre, Vancouver, Canada.

  • James Gomes, PhD, Associate professor at the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa; Director of the Endotox Laboratory, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

  • Sam Kacew, PhD, Associate Director, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Ottawa, Canada.

  • Daniel Krewski, PhD MHA, Professor of Epidemiology and Community Medicine; Scientific Director of the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.  

  • Louise Lemyre, PhD, Professor in the School of Psychology; Director, GAP-Santé; McLaughlin Chair in Psychosocial Aspects of Risk and Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. 

  • Paul A. Locke,   DRPH, JD, MPH,  Associate Professor in the Environmental Health Sciences Department, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Douglas McNair, MD, PhD,  President of Cerner Math;  Senior Vice President; Engineering Fellow and Chief Research Officer, Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, U.S.A.

  • Franco Momoli, PhD, Associate Scientist, Ottawa Health Research Institute and Children’s Hospital Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada.

Communication Panel

  • Kathryn O’Hara (Panel Chair), PhD,  Professor and CTV Chair in Science Broadcast Journalism and Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.   

  • William Leiss, OC, PhD, FRSC,  Senior Scientist, McLaughlin Center for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Canada;  Senior Scholar in Residence, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Cornell, U.S.A.

  • Ralph Mathews, PhD, Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia; Faculty Associate, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia;  Editor in Chief for The Canadian Review of Sociology, Revue Canadienne de Sociologie, Vancouver, Canada; and Adjunct Professor, Centre for Environment and Population Health, Griffith University, Australia.

    Roger Poirier (RISKcom webmaster), BSc, MSc, President, RBP Associates; General Manager, Radio Advisory Board of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Project Staff

  • Michael G. Tyshenko (Project Director), PhD, MPA, McLaughlin Chair in Biological Risk assessment, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

  • Mustafa Al-Zoughool PhD, Research Associate, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

  • Shalu Darshan PhD, Project Co-ordinator, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

  • Margit Westphal, PhD, Risk Analyst, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

  • Nagarajkumar Yenugadhati, MBBS, MSc, Epidemiologist, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

Graduate and Postdoctoral Contributors

Eric Aidoo; Nicole Boom; Christine Charles; Maxine Croteau; Melissa Descoteaux; Maya Djerboua; Stephanie Douma; Mihaela Gheorghe; Jessica Dennis; Jennifer Eyvindson; Nawal Farhat; Jelena Ivanovic; Stacy Jackson; Hasu Ghsoh; Natalia Kuzmenki; Roxanne Lewis; Ferreyra Mariella; Betancourt Marisol; Megan McGarrity; Alison Middlebro; Fan Mo; Sabrina Omar; Tracy Prentice; M. Saboui; Candace Sirjoosingh; Ania Syrowatka; Sara Torre.


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