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Environmental health student presents at conference in Canada

Posted 10/05/2009

Paul Rosile, a PhD student in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, presented a research project at the fifth annual Canadian Residual and Biosolids Conference sponsored by the Water Environment Association of Ontario, Sept. 13-15 in Niagara Falls.

Rosile's presentation, titled "Pilot Testing: Epidemiologic Surveillance and Investigation of Illness Reported by Neighbors of Biosolids Land Application and other Soils Amendments," fit in well with the conference's theme of Residuals and Biosolids Management in a Climate of Change.

"The Canadian government is interested in the surveillance and investigation tool we're pilot testing," Rosile said.

Also contributing to this research are Tim Buckley, associate professor and chair of the Division of Environmental Health Sciences; Song Liang, assistant professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences; and Jay Wilkins, professor in the Division of Epidemiology.

 

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