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Overview
The Research and Development (R&D) Committee of the Healthy Indoors Partnership (HIP)
currently has two mandates:
a) To establish a data warehouse for Canadian Indoor
Environmental Quality, in homes and in offices by leveraging
resources readily available in public and private sector
organizations.
b) To promote Healthy Indoor research activities in Canadian
Universities by managing a yearly HIP student scholarship fund.
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Membership
The Committee solicits members to support its mandate from
public and private sector organizations including
academia.
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Current Members
- Soheil Rastan (Stat Can) - chair
- Dr Edward Morofsky (PWGSC) - co-chair
- Dr Fariborz Haghighat (Concordia Univ.) - Research Advisor
- Dr Farnaz Sadeghpour (Ryerson Univ.) - Academic Relations
- Rob Geritsen (Cimatec) - Industry Relations
- Dr. Jiping Zhu, Health Canada
- Ronald Taylor, Trow and Associates
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Appointment to this Committee
Selection of members is based on the expertise required to
address the overall mandate of the Committee, and also the
activities addressed within the work plan. The Chair of the HIP
Board will invite selected experts as Committee members for a
period of time (3 years), after recommendation of the Committee
through its Chair.
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The
Canadian Indoor Environmental Quality Data Warehouse
Numerous indoor air quality investigations have been
conducted since the early 80s. Each collected air quality
data in Canadian indoor non-industrial settings. Results of many
of these projects are available but scattered all over, in labs,
research institutions and private sector organizations. The aim
of the HIP RC is to pull together the data from the numerous IAQ
sampling campaigns, so far conducted, and develop a
national IAQ data warehouse. The national IAQ data
warehouse will facilitate future research on
Canada
’s indoor environmental quality indicators.
Members of HIP RC will be responsible to develop an
appropriate methodology with relevant data suppression
techniques to respect confidentiality of data sources and their
respective locations. Members of the HIP RC will also be
responsible to manage the compilation of data, populate the
cells of the data, locate the sources of the data and solicit
public and private organizations that have access to such data. A
national domain-expert roundtable may need to be organized to
this end.
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Understanding
the Science and Technology of Mould in the Indoor Environment
A workshop was convened by the Committee in Montreal, on
November 23-24 2003, to discuss the state of knowledge and
research needs on two aspects of mould in the indoor
environment: Health Effects of Mould and Prevention and Control
of Mould. By invitation, participants broadly represented
stakeholder interests and expert knowledge on this issue.
Presentations and group
discussions allowed stakeholders to explain the economic,
health, environmental and risk issues of mould from their
perspective. Experts presented their state of knowledge on the
topic. A more balanced understanding of the issue resulted,
which allowed priority needs to be identified for research,
information, guidelines and best practices, and their
dissemination.
To read an Executive Summary of
the project report, download the full report, or download
individual presentations, click
here.
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Directory of Research Expertise
If
you are a Canadian scientist, or represent a Canadian research
organization involved in indoor environment research activities,
you are invited to submit the details of your experience for
future R&D collaboration with other Canadian scientists and
organization. To do so, click
here.
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