Steve Hrudey
BiographyDr. Hrudey obtained a MSc and PhD in Public Health Engineering from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of London. In 2002, he was awarded the career degree of DSc (Eng) in Environmental Health Sciences and Technology from the University of London.After expanding the environmental engineering program of the Department of Civil Engineering since joining the University in 1975, he moved to the Faculty of Medicine to establish an environmental health program in the department in 1988. He held the Eco-Research Chair in Environmental Risk Management, awarded by the Tri-Council Secretariat representing SSHRC, NSERC and MRC following a national competition from 1993 to 1998. His areas of research expertise are drinking water safety, environmental contaminant exposure assessment, approaches for health risk assessment, risk management and risk communication. He has authored or coauthored 140 refereed journal articles, 5 books, 12 book chapters, 6 expert panel reports, and over 100 other publications in the environmental sciences. His 2004 book, Safe Drinking Water, co-authored with Elizabeth J. Hrudey, is a best seller with the International Water Association - IWA Publishing of London. Dr. Hrudey has served on several journal editorial boards, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) strategic grants panel on environmental quality, and the NATO Priority Panel on Environmental Security in Brussels, and he chaired the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel to review social economic models for Canada-wide air quality standards. From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Hrudey served as a member of the Research Advisory Panel to the Walkerton Inquiry, and he served as Leader of the Protecting Public Health Program for the Canadian Water Network until July 2005. He was appointed in June 2005 to the Science Advisory Council for the National Collaborating Centres of the Public Health Agency of Canada. In May 2006, he was appointed to a 3 member expert panel to conduct public hearings across Canada to advise the Federal Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs on regulatory options to assure safe drinking water for First Nations communities in Canada. Dr. Hrudey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Sciences in 2006, and he was the 2006 TD/Canada Trust Walter Bean Visiting Professor in Environment at the University of Waterloo and the 2006 Distinguished Visiting Speaker at the National Water Research Institute. Previously, he was awarded the Killam Annual Professorship (2003) for overall academic contributions (Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry), an Emerald Award for Environmental Research in Alberta (1995), the Albert Berry Medal for contributions to environmental engineering in Canada from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (1991), and the McCalla Research Professorship (1986 in the Faculty of Engineering) at the University of Alberta. Dr. Hrudey was appointed in 1996 by Order-in-Council to the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board and he became the first non-lawyer to be appointed as Chair of this quasi-judicial administrative tribunal in July 2005. Supervisor forDaniel JalbaKeywords
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