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Donna Mergler
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Research
Latest papers
A call from 40 public health scientists for an end to the continuing humanitarian and environmental catastrophe in Gaza.
Environmental health : a global access science source · 2024
Reducing disease and death from Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) - the urgent need for responsible mining in the context of growing global demand for minerals and metals for climate change mitigation.
Environmental health : a global access science source · 2022
Executive functions in school-aged children exposed to airborne manganese: A multilevel analysis.
Environmental research · 2022
Latest funding
- $135,000
Seeing wrongs and seeking justice: The effects of mercury exposure on perceptual and sensorimotor ability in an Indigenous community (Grassy Narrows First Nation)
CIHR · 2023 · Supervisor
- $24,996
Planning for mercury-related vision rehabilitation services for Grassy Narrows First Nation community
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $1,342,575
Pathways towards environmental justice: a community-academic research partnership to understand how past and present mercury exposure from fish consumption affects health and well-being in Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows First Nation)
CIHR · 2022 · Nominated PI
21 publications.
A call from 40 public health scientists for an end to the continuing humanitarian and environmental catastrophe in Gaza.
London L, Watterson A, Mergler D, Albin M, Andrade-Rivas F, Ciaula AD, Comba P, Giannasi F, Habib RR, Hay A, Hoppin J, Infante P, Jeebhay M, Kelsey K, Kim R, Lemen R, Lipscomb H, Lynge E, Magnani C, Monforton C, Nemery B, Ngowi V, Nowak D, Nuwayhid I, Oliver C, Ozonoff D, Paek D, Petrosyan V, Portier CJ, Ritz B, Rosenstock L, Ruff K, Sly P, Soffritti M, Soskolne CL, Suk W, Terracini B, Vainio HU, Vineis P, White R
Reducing disease and death from Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) - the urgent need for responsible mining in the context of growing global demand for minerals and metals for climate change mitigation.
Landrigan P, Bose-O'Reilly S, Elbel J, Nordberg G, Lucchini R, Bartrem C, Grandjean P, Mergler D, Moyo D, Nemery B, von Braun M, Nowak D, Collegium Ramazzini
Executive functions in school-aged children exposed to airborne manganese: A multilevel analysis.
Carvalho CF, Santos-Lima C, Souza-Marques B, de Mendonça Filho EJ, Lorenzo RG, França RJAF, Araújo-Dos-Santos B, Veloso TJ, Rodrigues JLG, Araújo CFS, Dos Santos NR, Bandeira MJ, Anjos ALS, Mergler D, Abreu N, Menezes-Filho JA
Exposure to common-use pesticides, manganese, lead, and thyroid function among pregnant women from the Infants' Environmental Health (ISA) study, Costa Rica.
Corrales Vargas A, Peñaloza Castañeda J, Rietz Liljedahl E, Mora AM, Menezes-Filho JA, Smith DR, Mergler D, Reich B, Giffin A, Hoppin JA, Lindh CH, van Wendel de Joode B
Anemia, iron status, and associated protective and risk factors among children and adolescents aged 3 to 19 years old from four First Nations communities in Quebec.
Tahir E, Ayotte P, Little M, Bélanger RE, Lucas M, Mergler D, Laouan Sidi EA, Community of Winneway - Long Point First Nation, Community of Lac Simon, CSSS Tshukuminu Kanani of Nutashkuan, Community of Unamen Shipu, McHugh NG, Lemire M
Airborne manganese exposure and neurobehavior in school-aged children living near a ferro-manganese alloy plant.
Rodrigues JLG, Araújo CFS, Dos Santos NR, Bandeira MJ, Anjos ALS, Carvalho CF, Lima CS, Abreu JNS, Mergler D, Menezes-Filho JA
Environmental Co-Exposure to Lead and Manganese and Intellectual Deficit in School-Aged Children.
Menezes-Filho JA, Carvalho CF, Rodrigues JLG, Araújo CFS, Dos Santos NR, Lima CS, Bandeira MJ, Marques BLS, Anjos ALS, Bah HAF, Abreu N, Philibert A, Mergler D
Prenatal Mancozeb Exposure, Excess Manganese, and Neurodevelopment at 1 Year of Age in the Infants' Environmental Health (ISA) Study.
Mora AM, Córdoba L, Cano JC, Hernandez-Bonilla D, Pardo L, Schnaas L, Smith DR, Menezes-Filho JA, Mergler D, Lindh CH, Eskenazi B, van Wendel de Joode B
Manganese and lead levels in settled dust in elementary schools are correlated with biomarkers of exposure in school-aged children.
Rodrigues JLG, Bandeira MJ, Araújo CFS, Dos Santos NR, Anjos ALS, Koin NL, Pereira LC, Oliveira SSP, Mergler D, Menezes-Filho JA
Levels of 1-hydroxypyrene in urine of people living in an oil producing region of the Andean Amazon (Ecuador and Peru).
Webb J, Coomes OT, Mergler D, Ross NA
Seeing wrongs and seeking justice: The effects of mercury exposure on perceptual and sensorimotor ability in an Indigenous community (Grassy Narrows First Nation)
Principal investigators: Lee, Jennifer L
Keywords: Environmental Health; Functional Ability; Indigenous Health; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Mercury Exposure And Toxicity; Neuroscience; Perception; Sensorimotor Function; Vision
Planning for mercury-related vision rehabilitation services for Grassy Narrows First Nation community
Principal investigators: Nemargut, Joseph P; Marshall, Lauri Ann
Keywords: Indigenous Health; Mercury Exposure; Vision Rehabilitation; Visual Field Loss
Pathways towards environmental justice: a community-academic research partnership to understand how past and present mercury exposure from fish consumption affects health and well-being in Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows First Nation)
Principal investigators: Mergler, Donna; Fillion, Myriam
Keywords: Data Management And Analysis; Environmental Health; Indigenous Health; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Mercury Exposure And Toxicity; Neurology; Psychology; Vision
Righting wrongs: Developing appropriate follow-up for mercury-related deficits and disorders in Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek (also known as Grassy Narrows First Nation)
Principal investigators: Mergler, Donna; Fillion, Myriam
Keywords: Indigeneous Health; Integrated Knowldge Transfer; Mercury Exposure; Neurology; Neurotoxic; Psychology
Modeling an approach to gender-conscious participatory action-oriented research and knowledge transfer favouring equality, equity and occupational/environmental health
Principal investigators: Laberge, Marie; Webb, Jennifer; Mergler, Donna; Messing, Karen; Riel, Jessica; Saint-Charles, Johanne; Sultan-Taïeb, Hélène; Vaillancourt, Cathy
Keywords: Community-Based Participatory Approach; Ecohealth Approach; Education; Environmental Health; Implemantation Research; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Intervention Development; Occupational Health; Sex, Gender; System, Policies
Reconciling the legacy of mercury: learning from historical exposure to improve delivery of health and social services in the Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek (ANA) community
Principal investigators: Mergler, Donna
Keywords: Aging; Environmental Health; First Nation; Long-Term Health Effects; Mercury; Prenatal Exposure
A User-Friendly Synthesis of Children's Environmental Health in Canada
Principal investigators: Mergler, Donna; Hanvey, Louise
Keywords: Air Pollution; Child Health; Childhood Disease; Contaminants; Environment; Knowledge Transfer; Neurodevelopment; Policy; Respiratory; Synthesis
Manganese in drinking water affects children's IQ: knowledge transfer for primary prevention
Principal investigators: Mergler, Donna
Keywords: Children; Drinking Water; Intellectual Capaciy; Manganese
Preparation of an international birth cohort study on manganese neurotoxicity
Principal investigators: Mergler, Donna; Bouchard, Maryse
Keywords: Birth Cohort Study; Manganese Neurotoxicity In Children
Réseaux sociaux, équité et recherche participative liés à la réduction de l'exposition au mercure en Amazonie brésilienne
Principal investigators: Saint-Charles, Johanne
Keywords: communication; réseaux sociaux; diffusion; équité; santé; environnement
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Biological Sciences
- Sciences biologiques
- Occupational & Environmental Health Division
- Pathologie et microbiologie vétérinaire
- Family Medicine
- Ecole de réadaptation
- Public Health
- Other
Co-authors at Université du Québec à Montréal, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Johanne Saint-Charles
Ecole de réadaptation
1 shared papers, latest 2010
Myriam Fillion
Biological Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Matthew Little
Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Johanne Saint-Charles
Family Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2010
Christine Oliver
Occupational & Environmental Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Benoit Barbeau
Sciences biologiques
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Michel Lucas
Médecine sociale et préventive
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Johanne Saint-Charles
Pathologie et microbiologie vétérinaire
1 shared papers, latest 2010
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