Name Dorothy Rosenberg | Education York University | |
Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg is an educator and film consultant living in Toronto. She researches, writes and speaks on environmental health, equality, social justice, economic justice, environmental justice, peace, and energy issues.
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Biography
Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg PhD, MES, holds a Masters in Environmental Studies (York University) and a PhD (University of Toronto). She has worked with the National Film Board of Canada, school boards, non governmental organizations, health professionals and policy groups on these issues. She was principal research consultant and associate producer of the documentary video, Exposure: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer and researcher/writer of the accompanying guidebook "Taking Action for a Healthy Future". She has led numerous training trainers workshops using these materials as educational tools. She has recently researched and produced Toxic Trespass, a documentary on children's health and the environment as a co-production with the National Film Board of Canada.and has co-written the accompanying educational resource guide, "Taking Action on Children's Health and the Environment".
Dorothy is Volunteer Education Coordinator of the Women's Healthy Environments Network (WHEN). She teaches "Environmental Health, Transformative Higher Education and Policy Change: Education for Social and Ecosystem Healing" at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto,
Dorothy was director of a project to produce the publication "Les femmes s'en melent: Making a World of Difference: A Directory of Women in Canada Specializing in Global Issues". The global issues included development, environment, peace and related social justice and economic issues. Dorothy was the Development and Disarmament Coordinator at the Canadian Council for International Cooperation (1986–88). She is affiliated with the following organizations: Women's Healthy Environments Network (WHEN); Prevent Cancer Now; the Toronto Cancer Prevention Coalition Environmental and Occupational Working Group; Energy -Vision Network; the Saunders-Matthey Cancer Prevention Coalition (formerly the Breast Cancer Prevention Coalition), Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, the Cancer Prevention Group of the Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto; Stakeholders Advisory Group to the Canadian Cancer Society; the 9th International Women and Health Meeting, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment; Physicians for Global Survival; National Network on Environments and Women's Health Centre of Excellence (NNEWH); and the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education.
Awards
Award to Toxic Trespass:Best Health and Safety Documentary at the Canadian International Labour Film Festival from the Ontario Workers Health and Safety Centre, 2009.