Radon and Lung Health: What Health Care Providers Need to Know
About the Presenters
Kelley Bush
Since 2008 Health Canada’s National Radon Program (NRP) has made significant strides in educating the public and key stakeholders about radon, conducted research to better understand the radon situation in Canada and established the Canadian infrastructure and required resources to take action, test and mitigate, to reduce indoor radon. Significant challenges remain with respect to convincing Canadians to use the existing resources, adopt radon reduction behaviour change and take action.
Kelley Bush has been the Manager of the National Radon Outreach Program since 2008 at Health Canada’s Radiation Protection Bureau. Prior to joining Health Canada Kelley worked in the private sector as a marketing and sales management professional in the IT industry. Kelley holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours in Marketing from Concordia University.
Anne-Marie Nicol, MES PhD
Anne-Marie holds a PhD in Health Care and Epidemiology from UBC and a Master’s in Environmental Studies from York University. She is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University in the Faculty of Health Sciences where her areas of research include human health risk assessment, environmental health, and knowledge translation. Anne-Marie also works as a Knowledge Translation Scientist at the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH), which is supported by the Public Health Agency of Canada. Anne-Marie supports the Healthy Indoor Environments program at the BC Lung Foundation to promote policies that improve indoor air quality. Anne-Marie is a core team member for the Take Action on Radon (TAOR) program.