Healthy Environments and Communities

与世界上许多其他社区类似，布雷顿角的社区也面临着与环境污染相关的健康问题的挑战，例如高癌症发病率、死亡率和出生缺陷。这些问题在很大程度上归因于水污染，这是由于上个世纪当地焦炭和钢铁工业的遗留问题造成的。 CRC健康环境和社区项目的目标是开发世界一流的创新研究项目，旨在开发重要的新知识和有用的技术，以改善环境保护，包括水处理和与环境相关的健康科学，例如基于氧化还原的生物学和医学。

The communities in Cape Breton, similar to many others worldwide, are facing challenges of environmental pollution associated health problems, such as high cancer incidence, mortality rate, and birth defects. Such issues are ascribed to, to a significant extent, water pollution because of the legacy of the local coke and steel industry over the last century. The objective of the CRC in Healthy Environments and Communities program is to develop a world-class innovative research program aimed at developing important new knowledge and useful technologies that improve environment protection, including water treatment, and environment-related health sciences, e.g., redox-based biology and medicine.