 Chris Furgal is a Senior Researcher at the Public Health Research Unit, Laval University Research Hospital. He has been doing multidisciplinary research in the biological, social and health sciences on environmental health issues, their management and communication in the circumpolar North in cooperation with Inuit and other Indigenous organizations for the past 12 years. He has a Masters in biology and PhD in Environmental Studies – Planning from the University of Waterloo. He is involved as a lead author in the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment and the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Polar Regions). He is a member of the Northern Contaminants Program, Nunavik Nutrition and Health Committee and is Co-Director of the recently established Nasivvik Centre for Inuit Health and Changing Environments at Laval, one of eight Canadian Institutes of Health Research funded centres for Aboriginal health research and training in Canada.
email: christopher.furgal@crchul.ulaval.ca
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