Re: Dr. Bertell

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

The following was provided by Roger Fenner (who unfortunately is 
curently having trouble posting). This is a biographical sletch of 
Dr. Bertell.

Biographical Sketch: Rosalie Bertell

United Nations Environment Programme, 
Global 500 Laureate - 1993 
Alternative Nobel Prize: 
Right Livelihood Award - 1986 
World Federalist Peace Award - 1988 
Ontario Premier's Council on Health: 
Health Innovator Award - 1991 
Marguerite D'Youville Humanitarian Award, 
Lexington MA - 1992 

Rosalie Bertell, PhD, GNSH, is President of the International 
Institute of Concern for Public Health (IICPH), and Editor in Chief 
of International Perspectives in Public Health. 
Dr. Bertell served four years as Co-chair for Canada on the Ecosystem 
Health Workgroup of the Science Advisory Board to the US - Canada 
International Joint Commission (IJC) on the Great Lakes, and 
currently serves on the IJC Nuclear Task Force. She also serves as 
advisor to the Great Lakes Health Effects Program of Health Canada, 
and to the Environmental Assessment Board of Ontario. 
Dr. Bertell Directed the International Medical Commission - Bhopal 
which investigated the aftermath of the Union Carbide disaster in 
Bhopal, and of the International Medical Commission - Chernobyl, 
which convened the Tribunal on violations of the human rights of 
victims in Vienna, April 1996. 
She has received numerous awards and five honorary Doctorate degrees 
since launching the IICPH in 1984. 
Dr. Bertell is a member of the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart. 
Dr. Bertell earned a Doctorate in Biometry at the Catholic University 
of America, Washington, DC, in 1966, and has been working ever since 
time in environmental epidemiology. She has collaborated in analyses 
undertaken in the US, Canada, Japan, the Marshall Islands, Malaysia, 
India, Germany, Ukraine and other countries. 
Author of Handbook for Estimating the Health Effects of Ionizing 
Radiation (1984, 1986) and the popular non-fiction book: 
{HYPERLINK "NRBE/"}No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a radioactive 
Earth, together with more than a hundred articles, book chapters and 
poems, Dr. Bertell has reached medical, scientific, and popular 
audiences around the globe. 
No Immediate Danger, has been translated into Swedish, French, German 
and Finnish. A Russian translation is in process. 
By choice, Dr. Bertell works with indigenous people and economically 
developing countries as they struggle to preserve their human rights 
to health and life in the face of industrial, technological and 
military pollution. 
She was a founding member of IICPH, an attempt to institutionalize 
her growing concern for human survival on an intact planet. 


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