Thomas Tenkate DrPH, FEHA, FRSPH

Thomas Tenkate is an Associate Professor and Director, School of Occupational and Public Health, Ryerson University. He has worked in Australia, the USA and now in Canada in the fields of environmental health, public health and occupational health and safety. He has been in academia for 15 years, and prior to this he worked in a variety of government roles for 10 years. Originally qualified as an environmental health officer, he also gained qualifications in industrial hygiene, management, and education, including a Doctor of Public Health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. He has interests in food safety and food-borne disease and is a registered Food Safety Auditor. He has undertaken food-borne disease outbreak investigations and epidemiological research, and has developed food safety management systems for a range of industries/clients, including correctional facilities and aged-care facilities.

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Tuyet-Hanh, T.T., Anh, L.V., Dunne, M.P., Toms, L-M, Tenkate, T., Harden, F. Dioxin risk reduction program at the most severe dioxin hot spot in Vietnam: residual knowledge, attitude and practices five years post intervention. Global Public Health 2015; 10:1-12 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441692.2015.1062904#.VcC0vPnfDFk (external link) 

Tuyet-Hanh, T.T., Minh, N.H., Anh, L.V., Dunne, M.P., Toms, L-M, Tenkate, T., Thi, M-H.N., Harden, F. Dioxin exposure risk assessment due to contaminated foods in the two most severe dioxin hot spots in Vietnam. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 2015; 218 (5): 471-478. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1438463915000474 (external link) 

Tuyet-Hanh, T.T., Anh, L.V., Dunne, M.P., Toms, L-M, Tenkate, T., Harden, F. Sustainability of public health interventions to reduce the risk of dioxin exposure at severe dioxin hot spots in Vietnam. Journal of Community Health 2015; 40(4): 652-659. (DOI: 10.1007/s10900-014-9980-1) http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10900-014-9980-1 (external link) 

Tenkate, T. & Schwartz, M.C. The Welsh E.coli outbreak – a failure in regulatory and professional ethics, in: Population and Public Health Ethics: Cases from Research, Policy and Practice, Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Population and Public Health (ed), University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, ON, 2012, pp. 123-126. http://www.jcb.utoronto.ca/publications/casebook.shtml (external link) 

Updated January 2018