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Welcome to Dr. Osornio Vargas' webpage
Welcome to Dr. Osornio Vargas' webpage
Professor Emeritus who started a team interested in studying the impact of multiple environmental factors on children's health.
From an interdisciplinary perspective, we covered a broad spectrum of clinical, educational, and research activities. Current research activities are listed here.
Our research included dry and wet Lab-based work.
Children's Environmental Health Clinic (ChEHC)
Children's Environmental Health Clinic (ChEHC)
ChEHC is a unique program that addresses the impacts on children’s health from environmental exposures (chemical, biological, physical, and social). The program considers all environmental factors to assess exposures by integrating clinical, research, and educational components.
We are the first program of our kind in Canada. Recently, ChEHC supported the development and establishment of a second ChEHC in Ontario.
Children's Health and the Environment Course (PAED543)
The course addresses growing evidence that early life environmental exposures (biological, physical, chemical, and social) are crucial determinants of childhood and adult conditions like impaired development, asthma, or cancer.
Despite the growing interest in potential health risks associated with environmental concerns in Canada, there is a need for more training opportunities on Children, Health, and the Environment.
The interdisciplinary nature of this course aims to attract students from multiple disciplines to fulfill the need for formal training around a current topic with increasing demands and public awareness.
Course Coordinator:
Dr. Anne Hicks (Winter 2024 onward)
Dr. Osornio Vargas' Research
Dr. Alvaro Osornio Vargas's research interest is air pollution and related health effects. Specifically, he has focused on the impact of mixtures at the experimental and population level from an interdisciplinary approach.
He has more than 170 publications.
He obtained his Medical, M.Sc. and Ph.D. Degrees from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
He was a researcher at the Mexican National Institutes of Health until 2009.
In August 2009, he joined the Department of Paediatrics, University of Alberta, to develop the research segment of a Children's Environmental Health initiative.
He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Schools of Public Health at the University of Michigan, Rutgers University, and the University of Alberta.
He became Professor Emeritus in 2022.
Collaborations
2025
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