Current Research on Children’s Environmental Health – Alvaro Osornio-Vargas

Dr. Alvaro Osornio-Vargas is a physician trained in Pathology with a Master’s Degree in Medical Sciences and a PhD in Biomedical Research from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
He has dedicated most of his career to experimentally study the effects of the pollutant: Particulate Matter. He has more than various 100 publications, including six children books on Health Education. He served as an Expert in the Advisory Board for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation on Children’s Environmental Health between 2002 and 2004.
During all his professional life he has been involved teaching Health to high school students. He is developing a program at the University of Alberta where local environmental issues linked to important health outcomes in children will be identified and investigated. The goal of the program is to effect appropriate protective actions and policies based on local evidence to better serve the community.