The International Institute of Concern for Public Health is a Canadian-based non-profit organization dedicated to helping communities assess and improve their environmental health status.
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Our Fall 2011 newsletter is now available. Printed copies will soon be mailed to our subscribers. Want...
Last year at this time, I spoke about hope for the future. But guess what! Things got worse! The one...
Until May 12, 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) always followed the lead of the International Atomic Energy Agency...
The Canadian Environmental Network/ Rėseau canadien de l’environnement (RCEN) is one of Canada’s oldest, largest, and most well-respected public...
On Nov. 6, 2011 the Washington Post quoted statements from an IAEA Report that indicated that know-how for the...
Dr. Rosalie Bertell and IICPH have been saddened by the death of Prof. Rudi H. Nussbaum, a dear colleague...
Aliss Terpstra, one of our directors and also secretary of the IICPH board, has been campaigning for a number...
The Canadian TV program The Nature of Things, hosted by David Suzuki, recently extolled the advantages of nanoparticles for curative...
Since the catastrophic accident at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, independent investigations of safety issues are revealing more and more little-known...
The conference organized by the Canadian Nuclear Society (CNS) dealt with all forms of radioactive waste and provided an...
The growing demands for aggregate materials in Ontario has led governments and aggregate and construction industries to explore various methods...
In Niagara Falls, New York, there are areas of nuclear waste contamination including highways and byways. According to a recently...
The Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) organization, based in Maryland,...
In 1988 while running for reelection, the then-Minister of Defence Perrin Beatty vowed to include nuclear submarines in Canada’s arsenal....
Dear Dr. Chan:
For those of us in the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) community that have been working for so many...
For immediate release
In response to the rising possibility of a disaster greater than Chernobyl, the...
For Immediate Release
The people of New Brunswick are as concerned about the safety of nuclear power plants as everyone else...
The 60 stations which were set up to monitor the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty are detecting global effects of the Fukushima...
The International Institute of Concern for Public Health (IICPH) is...
Dear Mr. Graham;
This written submission summarizes the issues that IICPH wishes to raise as an Intervenor at the...
Please sign on and support this important statement from the Passamaquoddy people.
Thank you for your support.
We just started a new “news” section, accessible from the Nuclear News link on the right-hand side, on the...
This article on Breast Cancer and Mammography by Rosalie Bertell can be downloaded as a 180Kb PDF file....
The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation. By Gayle Greene. The University of Michigan Press. 1999. 321pp.
The recent earthquake on Wednesday, June 23, 2010, reminds us that the earthquake fault line still exists very close to...
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) was authorized to find a location for a deep geologic repository for nuclear...
Dear Friends and Residents of this interdependent global home,
I cannot give magical answers to everyone’s needs at this time of...
The Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility put out a list of 15 Facts About Radioactive Steam Generators. It...
To: Members of the...
Dear Friends,
I have long been concerned about the suicides and abnormal behavior of the returning veterans. I found that nano...
The IICPH had also asked for an extension to properly review the CNSC’s Tritium Studies Project, but it...
First Nations Demand Mining Reform in Wake of Harvard Law Report
Independent human rights study details unjust B.C and federal...
Réseau “Sortir du nucléaire”
French Nuclear Phaseout Network
Press release – Urgent
Advertising Standards Canada has just posted a decision to its
website declaring that it is inaccurate and unsupportable to call...
In his 2002 address to the Pontifical Council of Pastoral Health Care, Pope Jean Paul II warned of the “Promethean...
United Nations, New York, 2010-05-10
Non-governmental organizations at the NPT Abolition Caucus express dismay at the unashamed pushing of a...
The IICPH wrote to the CNSC regarding SRBT’s license renewal and presented at the May 19, 2010...
Since the NPT deals with the right of nations to have access to nuclear power, this issue was discussed...
IICPH flyer for the Halton Eco-Festival, 17-18 April 2010
IICPH flyer for the Halton Eco-Festival, 17-18 April 2010
This series of articles in the Watershed Sentinel tracks all aspects of uranium in Canada from mining and milling, to...
Since about 1990, the international research community has spent more time looking at lower dose rate health effects. Many of these scientists have been surprised to discover effects such as genomic instability, the bystander effect, an increase in Relative Biological Effect (RBE), mini-satellite damage and non-homogeneous distribution of radionuclides.