Greg Evans
Southern Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosol Research
Greg Evans, P.Eng., Ph.D., FAAAS, FCAE, FCEEA is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry and the Director of the Southern Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosol Research. His research examines the impacts of air pollution on the environment, climate and human health. He is also the founding Director of the Institute for Studies of Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice, a new Department that focusses on the instruction, scholarship, and applications or engineering communication, leadership, entrepreneurship, and sociotechnical thinking.
Prof. Evans has received numerous recognitions for his contributions through research including the 2021 NSERC Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research and the 2022 CIC Environment Division Research and Development Dima Award. He is also a 3M National Teaching Fellow, member of the UofT President’s Teaching Academy, and has received numerous other recognitions for his excellence in teaching including the Engineers Canada Medal for Distinction in Engineering Education and the Ontario Colleges and Universities Faculty Association Teaching Award.
He is currently executing a study of non-tailpipe emissions from vehicle brakes and tires funded by the US Health Effects Institute and pursuing research relating to aircraft emissions, air quality on public transit, and the health impacts of wildfires.
Partner Session – Health Effects Institute
Room: Samberg Salon MI
The Health Effects Institute (HEI) was created in 1980 as a nonprofit corporation to address a need among government, industry, and other sectors for impartial science of the highest quality to inform policy decisions around motor vehicle emissions. HEI’s long-standing government-industry partnership, independent research model, and impartiality have allowed it to maintain credibility as it provides science to sponsors and other sectors often with competing interests. In this session, HEI’s rigorous model will be described; this model has been applied for more than four decades to yield credible research that has informed important health-protective policy decisions. A few examples of impactful HEI-funded research will be highlighted, and two HEI-funded investigators will present their research that was funded to investigate exposure to non-tailpipe particulate emissions and possible health effects associated with those emissions.
- HEI: A Model for Producing Impartial Science.
Speaker: Elena Craft, President, HEI - A History of Policy-Relevant Science.
Speaker: Ellen Mantus, Director of Science, HEI - Assessing the Impact of Non‐Tailpipe Emissions from Traffic on the Asthmatic Airway (IONA).
Speaker: Chris Griffiths, Queen Mary University of London - Improved Characterization of the Real‐World Contributions and Impacts of Non-tailpipe Particulate Matter Emissions.
Speaker: Greg Evans, University of Toronto - Q&A – Elena Craft, President, HEI