Science café - Health Canada's national biomonitoring program

Annie St-Amand has worked at Health Canada for over 20 years. She initially spent seven years working in air quality risk assessment before moving into biomonitoring in 2012. Since 2016, she has led the national biomonitoring program within the Office of Environmental Health Science and Research. She supervises a team of more than ten researchers and scientists. Annie has played a key role in the development and implementation of the biomonitoring component of the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) and is actively involved in national and international collaborative efforts in human biomonitoring.