Healthy Environments and Communities

布雷东角的社区与世界上许多其他社区一样，正面临着与环境污染相关的健康问题的挑战，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当地焦炭和钢铁工业在上个世纪遗留下来的水污染。CRC在健康环境和社区计划的目标是开发一个世界级的创新研究计划，旨在开发重要的新知识和有用的技术，改善环境保护，包括水处理和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.