Jeffrey Brooks

Assistant Professor

Dr. Brook is an Assistant Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Toronto. For 25 years he was a senior scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada. He is an expert on air quality and health and sits on the Research Committee of the Health Effects Institute, which shapes research priorities in support of policy-relevant questions having global reach. Dr. Brook co-led the 15 year Gene-Environment program in AllerGen, a Canadian NCE. He helped build Canada’s largest birth Cohort, CHILD and he leads its environmental arm. Dr. Brook started and leads the pan-Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE).

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.

Social Exposome Cluster

950 West 28th Avenue
Vancouver, BC Canada V5Z 4H4

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver is a joint initiative of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver and the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. Funding support for the clusters is provided by Academic Excellence Funds – UBC Vancouver.

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