CBNS Mission
The Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS) is an environmental and occupational health research institute at Queens College, City University of New York, the nation's largest public university. The mission of CBNS is to identify and help rectify environmental and occupational threats to human health. CBNS uses real world occupational and environmental problems as its entry point for needed research, emphasizing a scientific approach that facilitates public participation in gathering information and developing solutions and interacting extensively with people and organizations that determine or are affected by these policy choices.
Recent and Upcoming Events
Political epidemiology of case-control studies: 1900-1950.
Location: New York, NY, USA
March 11, 2011
Will epidemiologic methods and concepts cease to evolve?
Location: Edinburgh, UK
August 17, 2011
Protecting Workers and Community Health:
Are we Prepared for the Next 9/11?
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Date: September 16, 2011
Commuting mode and inflamatory response:
A case-control Study.
Location: Barcelona, Spain
September 16, 2011
CBNS Participates in IBM's "THINK" Exhibit at Lincoln Center
Date: September 23, 2011
Health Impact of 9/11: What Do We Know?
Scientific Update of World Trade
Center Health Effects
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Date: October 13, 2011
Nazism and Public Health: Are they compatible?
Location: San Sebastian, Spain
November 2, 2011
Os metodos e conceitos epidemiologicas iran parar de evoluir?
Location: Sao Paolo, Brazil
November 12, 2011
The Nazi study on tobacco and lung cancer: Science or propaganda?
Location: Sao Paolo, Brazil
November 14, 2011
David Hume and Bradford Hill, so similar and so apart.
Location: University of Johannesburg, South Africa, Brazil
December 12, 2011
CBNS News
Steven Markowitz MD, CBNS Director, is named as a member of the World Trade Center Health Program Scientific and Technical Committee by NIOSH Director and WTC Administrator, John Howard MD, JD. Among other tasks, this committee will advise the Federal Government about what health conditions should be considered as related to exposures that occurred as a result of the September 11 attacks.