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Overview

Hing Man Chan is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and health professions, with a significant volume of work within environmental science. The detailed exploration within their scholarship covers toxicology, public health, nutrition, and pollution-related subjects.

Their research spans several subfields, including:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • General Health Professions
  • Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Pollution

Key topics addressed in their publications cover areas such as:

  • Indigenous Studies and Ecology
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
  • Heavy metals in environment

Hing Man Chan has contributed to various research articles, including the following notable recent papers:

  • Mercury exposure, cardiovascular disease, and mortality: A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis (2020, Environmental Research)
  • Mass spectrometry-based untargeted metabolomics approach for differentiation of beef of different geographic origins (2020, Food Chemistry)
  • Pharmaceuticals in source waters of 95 First Nations in Canada (2021, Canadian Journal of Public Health)
  • Omega-3 world map: 2024 update (2024, Progress in Lipid Research)
  • First Nations households living on-reserve experience food insecurity: prevalence and predictors among ninety-two First Nations communities across Canada (2021, Canadian Journal of Public Health)

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Canadian Journal of Public Health
  • FACETS
  • Environmental Research
  • Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism
  • Public Health Nutrition

They have collaborated extensively with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Malek Batal
  • Amy Ing
  • Tonio Sadik
  • Karen Fediuk
  • Xue Feng Hu

Best Publications

  • Mercury as a Global Pollutant: Sources, Pathways, and Effects

    Charles T. Driscoll;Robert P. Mason;Hing Man Chan;Daniel James Jacob

  • Current progress on understanding the impact of mercury on human health.

    Eunhee Ha;Niladri Basu;Stephan Bose-O’Reilly;Jose G Dórea

  • What are the toxicological effects of mercury in Arctic biota

    Rune Dietz;Christian Sonne;Niladri Basu;Birgit Braune

  • Biomarkers in zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) for the assessment and monitoring of water quality of the St Lawrence River (Canada).

    Yves de Lafontaine;François Gagné;Christian Blaise;Georges Costan

  • Balancing the benefits of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and the risks of methylmercury exposure from fish consumption

    Kathryn R Mahaffey;Elsie M Sunderland;Hing Man Chan;Anna L Choi

  • ENVIRONMENT AND CONTAMINANTS IN TRADITIONAL FOOD SYSTEMS OF NORTHERN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

    H V Kuhnlein;H M Chan

  • Food security in Nunavut, Canada: barriers and recommendations.

    Hing Man Chan;Karen Fediuk;Sue Hamilton;Laura Rostas

  • The influence of nutrition on methyl mercury intoxication

    Laurie Chapman;Hing Man Chan

  • Mink as a sentinel species in environmental health

    Niladri Basu;Anton M. Scheuhammer;Steven J. Bursian;John Elliott

  • Recent progress on our understanding of the biological effects of mercury in fish and wildlife in the Canadian Arctic.

    Anton Scheuhammer;Birgit Braune;Hing Man Chan;Héloïse Frouin

  • Comparison on gestation and lactation exposure of perfluorinated compounds for newborns

    Jiaying Liu;Jingguang Li;Jingguang Li;Yong Liu;Hing Man Chan

  • Adapting to the impacts of climate change on food security among Inuit in the Western Canadian Arctic.

    Sonia D. Wesche;Sonia D. Wesche;Hing Man Chan

  • Impacts of Mercury on Freshwater Fish-Eating Wildlife and Humans

    H.M. Chan;A.M. Scheuhammer;A. Ferran;C. Loupelle

  • Mercury exposure, cardiovascular disease, and mortality: A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.

    Xue Feng Hu;Mackenzie Lowe;Hing Man Chan

  • Fish consumption, mercury exposure, and heart diseases

    Hing Man Chan;Grace M Egeland

  • Accumulation and tolerance to cadmium, copper, lead and zinc by the green mussel Perna viridis

    HM Chan

  • Gender differences in the effects of organochlorines, mercury, and lead on thyroid hormone levels in lakeside communities of Quebec (Canada).

    Nadia Abdelouahab;Donna Mergler;Larissa Takser;Claire Vanier

  • Local observations of climate change and impacts on traditional food security in two northern Aboriginal communities.

    Melissa Guyot;Cindy Dickson;Chris Paci;Chris Furgal

  • New evidence on variations of human body burden of methylmercury from fish consumption.

    René Canuel;Sylvie Boucher de Grosbois;Laura Atikessé;Marc Lucotte

  • Protective roles of metallothionein and glutathione in hepatotoxicity of cadmium.

    Hing Man Chan;M. George Cherian

  • Nephrotoxicity in rats following liver transplantation from cadmium-exposed rats.

    Hing Man Chan;Lin-Fu Zhu;R. Zhong;D. Grant

Frequent Co-Authors

Niladri Basu
Niladri Basu McGill University
Anton M. Scheuhammer
Anton M. Scheuhammer Carleton University
José L. Domingo
José L. Domingo Rovira i Virgili University
Xinbin Feng
Xinbin Feng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jules M. Blais
Jules M. Blais University of Ottawa
Vivian Wing-Wah Yam
Vivian Wing-Wah Yam University of Hong Kong
Gary A. Stern
Gary A. Stern University of Manitoba
Paul A. Arp
Paul A. Arp University of New Brunswick
Frank Wania
Frank Wania University of Toronto
Daniel Figeys
Daniel Figeys University of Ottawa

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