Niladri Basu

Dr. Nil Basu holds a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Environmental Health Sciences at McGill University where he is jointly appointed in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences and the School of Human Nutrition. Dr. Basu also holds appointments in McGill’s School of the Environment and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, as well as an adjunct professorship at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. The goal of Dr. Basu's research is to take an ecosystem approach to community, occupational, and environmental health whereby evidence is collected, scrutinized, and compared from both humans and ecological organisms. Dr. Basu’s research is both inter-disciplinary (bridges environmental quality and human health) and inter-sectoral (most projects driven by stakeholder needs, notably government and communities), and increasingly he has assumed national and international leadership positions to bring together diverse teams to tackle grand challenges in the field (e.g., toxicity testing in the 21st century, mercury pollution, gold mining). Research activities are situated at the interface of science and policy with notable involvements with the UN Minamata Convention, Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan, and the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health. The work has been supported by more than $35M in research funding, resulted in >150 peer-reviewed papers and afforded training opportunities to over 100 students.