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Sabrina Gravel

Professeure associée

École de santé publique - Département de santé environnementale et santé au travail

sabrina.gravel@umontreal.ca

Secondary number: 514 288-1551 #401 (Travail 1)
Secondary email: sabrina.gravel@irsst.qc.ca (Travail)

Profile

Biography

Sabrina Gravel travaille dans le champ de recherche Prévention des risques chimiques et biologiques depuis 2012. Titulaire d’un doctorat en Santé publique, option toxicologie et analyse du risque de l’Université de Montréal, son domaine d’expertise la toxicodynamique des substances chimiques dans l’organisme ou les effets sur la santé des expositions professionnelles à des contaminants chimiques. Ses intérêts de recherche portent sur les expositions dans les emplois dits « verts », sur les perturbateurs endocriniens (principalement sur les substances ignifuges), sur les sensibilisants et irritants et sur les pesticides.

Affiliations and responsabilities

Research affiliations

  • Professeure associée, Faculté de médecine dentaire et des sciences de la santé orale, Université McGill https://www.mcgill.ca/dentistry/fr
  • Membre régulier, Réseau de recherche en santé buccodentaire et osseuse (RSBO) https://www.rsbo.ca/
  • Membre régulier, Centre intersectoriel d’analyse des perturbateurs endocriniens (CIAPE) https://www.ciape-iceda.ca/
  • Membre régulier, Réseau de recherche en économie circulaire du Québec (RRECQ) https://rrecq.ca/ 

Teaching and supervision

Projects

Research projects

2024 - 2025

Le radon en milieu de travail : évaluation de l'exposition et estimation de la dose efficace de rayonnement

Lead researcher : Sabrina Gravel
Co-researchers : Jérôme Lavoué
Funding sources: MITACS Inc.
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Stage Accélération Québec - MITACS
2023 - 2025

Révision du Guide de surveillance biologique de l’exposition : Stratégie de prélèvement et interprétation des résultats, 8ième édition.

Co-researchers : Sabrina Gravel
2022 - 2025

Le radon en milieu de travail : évaluation de l'exposition et estimation de la dose efficace de rayonnement

Lead researcher : Sabrina Gravel
2022 - 2025

Analyse des données d’indemnisation de la CNESST des professionnels de la médecine dentaire et identification de pistes de recherche

Lead researcher : Sabrina Gravel
2022 - 2024

Prévention précoce des cancers professionnels auprès des élèves en apprentissage de métiers semi-spécialisés

Co-researchers : Sabrina Gravel
2021 - 2024

Association entre l’exposition professionnelle aux pesticides au Québec et la survenue de maladies neurodégénératives

Co-researchers : Sabrina Gravel
2015 - 2018

Évaluation de l’exposition aux contaminants chimiques des travailleurs œuvrant dans le recyclage primaire des matières résiduelles électroniques au Québec et appréciation du risque sanitaire

Co-researchers : Sabrina Gravel

Outreach

Publications and presentations

Publications

  1. Gravel S, Roberge B, Calosso M, Gagné S, Lavoie J, Labrèche F. 2023. Occupational health and safety, metal exposures and multi-exposures health risk in Canadian electronic waste recycling facilities.  Waste Management 165:140-149.
  2. Ho V, Pelland-St-Pierre L, Gravel S, Bouchard M F, Verner M A, Labrèche F. 2022. Endocrine disruptors: Challenges and future directions in epidemiologic research. Environ Res, 204 (Pt A), 111969. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111969.
  3. Côté D, Gravel S, Gladu S, Bakhiyi B, Gravel S. 2021. Worker health in formal electronic waste recycling plants.  Int. J. Workplace Health Manag. 14 (3):292-309.
  4. Gravel S, Côté D, Gladu S, Labrèche F, Gravel S, Bakhiyi B, Zayed J. 2021. Electronic recycling plants: human resources and OHS management case studies.  International Journal of Workplace Health Management 14 (3):350-367.
  5. Gravel S, Lavoue J, Bakhiyi B, Lavoie J, Roberge B, Patry L, Bouchard M F, Verner M A, Zayed J, and Labreche F. 2020. Multi-exposures to suspected endocrine disruptors in electronic waste recycling workers: Associations with thyroid and reproductive hormones. Int J Hyg Environ Health 225:113445.
  6. Nguyen L V, Gravel S, Labreche F, Bakhiyi B, Verner M A, Zayed J, Jantunen L M, Arrandale V H, and Diamond M L. 2020. Can silicone passive samplers be used for measuring exposure of e-waste workers to flame retardants?  Environ Sci Technol 54 (23):15277-15286.
  7. Ceballos D M, Cote D, Bakhiyi B, Flynn M A, Zayed J, Gravel S, Herrick R F, and Labreche F. 2020. Overlapping vulnerabilities in workers of the electronics recycling industry formal sector: A commentary.  Am J Ind Med 63 (11):955-962.
  8. Gravel S, Lavoue J, Bakhiyi B, Diamond ML, Jantunen LM, Lavoie J, Roberge B, Verner MA, Zayed J, Labreche F. 2019. Halogenated flame retardants and organophosphate esters in the air of electronic waste recycling facilities: Evidence of high concentrations and multiple exposures. Environ Int 128:244-53.
  9. Gravel S, Aubin S, Labreche F. 2019. Assessment of Occupational Exposure to Organic Flame Retardants: A Systematic Review. Ann Work Expo Health 63(4):386-406.                         
  10. Gravel S, Lavoué J, Labrèche F. 2018. Exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in American and Canadian workers: Biomonitoring data from two national surveys. Science of The Total Environment 631-632:1465-71.
  11. Bakhiyi B, Gravel S, Ceballos D, Flynn MA, Zayed J. 2018. Has the question of e-waste opened a Pandora's box? An overview of unpredictable issues and challenges. Environ Int 110:173-92.

Communications

  1. Gravel S, Diamond M L, Jantunen L, Verner M-A, Zayed J, Labrèche F. Association between air and biological concentrations of flame retardants from e-waste recycling facilities. ISBM-12; Porto, Portugal, 21-23 jun. 2023
  2. Pomerleau M, Gravel S, Gagnon M, Gagné S, Sarazin P. How to determine Biological Limit Values? Develop-ment of a decision diagram for occupational health purposes. ISBM-12; Porto, Portugal, 21-23 jun. 2023
  3. Gravel S, Roberge B, Patry L, Bakhiyi B, Zayed J, Lavoué J, Labrèche F. Assessment of overexposure to multiple metals in electronic recycling facilities: using air samples and biomarkers to highlight potential toxicity.  EPICOH; Montreal, Canada (Virtual) 2021.
  4. Ceballos D, Labrèche F, Côté D, Herrick R, Bakhiyi B, Gravel S, Flynn M, Zayed J. Overlapping Vulnerabilities in Workers of the Electronics Recycling Industry Formal Sector.  EPICOH; Montreal, Canada (Virtual) 2020.
  5. Zayed J, Bakhiyi B, Gravel S, Labrèche F. Global health issues and challenges related to e-waste management. Seventeenth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium; Sardinia, Italy 2019.
  6. Gravel S, Diamond ML, Jantunen L, Verner M-A, Zayed J, Labrèche F. Are airborne concentrations of BDE209 associated with serum concentration in recycling workers? 9th International Symposium on Flame Retardants (BFR); Montreal, Canada 2019.
  7. Traore IT, Gravel S, Diamond ML, Jantunen L, Bloch S, Zayed J, Labrèche F, Verner M-A. Urinary metabolites of organophosphate esters (OPEs) in electronic waste recycling workers and their relationship with air concentrations. 9th International Symposium on Flame Retardants (BFR); Montreal, Canada 2019.
  8. Ngyuen L, Gravel S, Bakhiyi B, Jantunen L, Verner M-A, Zayed J, Labrèche F, Diamond ML. Application of silicone rubber wristband for measuring exposure of Quebec e-waste workers to flame retardants. 9th International Symposium on Flame Retardants (BFR); Montreal, Canada 2019.
  9. Gravel S, Bakhiyi B, Lavoué J, Verner M-A, Zayed J, Labrèche F. Electronic waste recycling exposure and hormone levels in workers. EPICOH; Wellington, New-Zealand 2019.
  10. Traore IT, Gravel S, Diamond ML, Jantunen L, Nguyen L, Yang C, Bernstein S, Zayed J, Labrèche F, Verner M-A. Urinary Metabolites of Organophosphate Esters (OPEs) in Electronic Waste Recycling Workers from the Province of Quebec, Canada. Joint Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Science and the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISES-ISEE 2018); Ottawa, Canada 2018.                                          
  11. Gravel S, Bakhiyi B, Lavoie J, Roberge B, Verner M-A, Zayed J, Labrèche F. Electronic waste recycling in Canada - Biomonitoring of workers’ exposure to flame retardants. CARWH; Vancouver, BC 2018.
  12. Gravel S, Bakhiyi B, Diamond ML, Jantunen LM, Lavoie J, Nguyen LV, Roberge B, Verner M-A, Zayed J, Labrèche F. Recycling is not all green: Workers' exposure to metals and flame retardants in Quebec e-recycling facilities. CARWH; Vancouver, BC 2018.
  13. Gravel S, Bakhiyi B, Bernstein S, Diamond ML, Jantunen LM, Lavoie J, Ngyuen L, Roberge B, Verner M-A, Yang C, Zayed J, Labrèche F. E-waste recycling in Canada - Workers’ exposure to metals and flame retardants. The 32nd International Congress on Occupational Health; Dublin, Ireland 2018.
  14. Zayed J, Gravel S, Labrèche F, Bakhiyi B. Have e-waste recycling efforts opened a Pandora’s box? An overview of occupational health issues and challenges. XXI World Congress on Safety and Health at Work; Singapore 2017.
  15. Traore IT, Gravel S, Diamond ML, Jantunen L, Ngyuen LV, Yang C, Bernstein S, Bloch S, Zayed J, Labrèche F, Verner M-A. Preliminary results from a study on occupational exposure to organophosphate ester flame retardants and plasticizers in electronic waste recycling plants. Society of Toxicology of Canada; Ottawa, Canada 2017.
  16. Gravel S, Lavoué J, Labrèche F. Industry, occupation and sex differences in workers’ exposure to endocrine disrupting metals in an American and a Canadian survey. EPICOH; Edinburgh, Scotland 2017.
  17. Gravel S, Lavoué J, Labrèche F. Workers’ exposure to brominated flame retardants: A glance at American and Canadian population databases. EPICOH; Edinburgh, Scotland 2017.
  18. Gravel S, Labrèche F, Zayed J. Are green jobs, safe jobs? Identifying research gaps for chemical and biological hazards. Epidemiology in Occupation Health Conference (EPICOH); Barcelona, Spain 2016.

Disciplines

  • Toxicology
  • Public Health
  • Occupational Medicine
  • Water and Environment
  • Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Areas of expertise

  • Hormone disrupting chemical
  • Carcinogen
  • Metals
  • Flame retardants
  • Climatic changes
  • Occupational risk assessment
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Databases
  • Epidemiology
  • Toxicological risk analysis
  • Physical contaminants
  • Biomarkers
  • Mixture Toxicity
  • Noise
  • Neoplasms
  • Biological determinants of health
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Industrial disease
  • Occupational disease
  • Toxicodynamic
  • Human toxicology
  • Industrial toxicology
  • Organic compounds
  • Research ethics
  • Risk management
  • Exposure modelling
  • Pesticides
  • Respiratory protection