Élyse Caron-Beaudoin

Élyse Caron-Beaudoin is an Assistant Professor in environmental health at UTSC. Through engaged scholarship, her lab, From Bench to Communities, develops transdisciplinary community-based research projects to assess the impacts of anthropogenic pressures on health and well-being by combining information across multiple levels of biological organization. During her postdoctoral fellowship, Élyse investigated the associations between density and proximity to oil and gas wells and birth outcomes in Northeastern British Columbia and published the first Canadian epidemiological study focusing on this industry. She also instigated in partnership with First Nations from the region the first biomonitoring studies on exposure to environmental contaminants associated with this industry in Canada.

With the support of various research grants, Dr. Caron-Beaudoin is currently leading multiple projects on 1) exposure to environmental contaminants associated with unconventional oil and gas operations; 2) mechanisms of toxicity (e.g., endocrine disruption, oxidative stress) associated with exposure to these contaminants; 3) associations between proximity to oil and gas wells and various health outcomes; 4) the role of airborne microbes and pollutants in the inflammatory response of asthma in Northern and Southern Canada; 5) the development of disease and sex-specific cellular models to study the contribution of environmental contaminants to disease etiology.