The CAPE Preventing Toxic Exposures Program is seeking to further leverage CAPE’s power as we plan our activities and advocacy for the coming year. We would like to maximize the use of the physician/HCP voice in our activities and are inviting your anecdotes, stories, “case studies”, observations, community based concerns and solutions about patient/community health and toxic exposures.

• Do you have a story about a patient exposed to a toxic substance (e.g. a pesticide, air pollutant) and a related adverse health outcome?
• Are you seeing higher than expected incidence of a particular health problem (e.g. breast cancer, reproductive issues) in your community that you suspect is linked with exposures to industrial emissions? 
• Have you engaged in advocacy for the prevention of toxic exposures that you connect with better environmental or health outcomes (e.g. asthma inhalers, traffic reductions)? 

 

We want to know!

CAPE is increasingly building on the power of the physician and health care professional (HCP) voice as we broaden the issues and campaigns we are involved in. We know that our advocacy is particularly compelling and persuasive when physicians/HCPs share their points of view and experiences in relation to the interconnections of environments, health and justice. 

We would like to use these testimonials (whether a sentence or two, a longer story, a published case study, a campaign note) in various ways including via social media, OpEds, blog posts, backgrounder documents, website content, and interactions with decision-makers. Attribution is not necessary – confidentially will be respected if that is your wish.

We are especially interested in hearing from you if you have stories to share related to:

• Pesticides
• Plastics and their components
• Air pollution 
• Water pollution
• Fossil fuels
• Fracking
• Tar sands tailings ponds
• “Forever Chemicals” per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS)
• Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs)
• Forest fires
• Climate change
• Environmental injustice

 

Please reach out to us!

The Toxics Team:
Dr. Jane E. McArthur, PhD, Toxics Program Director, jane@cape.ca
Dakota Norris, Fossil Fuel Extraction Campaign Manager, dakota@cape.ca