Tue Dec 10, 2024
10:00 AM EST
Health
This session will cover the areas of housing and homes that are apart of the Environmental Public Health Services (EPHS) branch of Indigenous Services Canada program delivery. The EPHS program focuses on the health of the community as it relates to housing and the residents of a home in order to promote the best health outcomes possible. Areas include housing design, ventilation, indoor air quality, mould, pest control, drinking water, sewage, structural defects, fire safety and communicable disease control.
Housing, Health, Indigenous Services Canada, Environmental Public Health Services, Home Inspections, indoor air quality, mould, ventilation, drinking water, sewage, structural defects, fire safety, communicable disease control.
People looking for more information on promoting a health home or wanting to know more about Environmental Public Health Services’ role in housing.
Scott Christie is a certified Public Health Inspector with the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors. He has 10 years of experience in the field, working both in Northern British Columbia and Northern Ontario. He is currently based out of Thunder Bay, located on the traditional lands of the Fort William First Nation, Signatory to the Robinson Superior Treaty of 1850. He is currently employed by Indigenous Services Canada as a Environmental Public Health Inspector.
