Aug. 27, 2015
Congratulations Elias Nyanza - Vanier Winner
Nyanza is a Cotutelle PhD student in Population and Public Health, in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary and the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences (CUHAS).
Nyanza’s research builds on his background in environment and public health and he is currently studying the effects of mining on fertility in women living in mining communities in Tanzania. Nyanza is leading a study that looks at the prenatal levels of exposure to arsenic and mercury in connection to the rate of poor birth outcomes.