John Colbourne
Director @Centre For Environmental Research And Justice Cerj
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WORK HISTORY
Director @Centre For Environmental Research And Justice Cerj
Birmingham, GB
The Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ) combines modern science with law to make the environment safe from toxic chemicals via “action research”. Collaboration and teamwork is at the heart of the Centre. Its mission is to help remedy harm to human health and the environment caused by pollution. A scientific objective of the Centre is to advance an emerging field called Precision Toxicology. Environmental justice is achieved by improving evidence-based governance interventions. Unlike traditional academic pursuits which oftentimes divide global problems into research silos, this transdisciplinary research centre creates conditions for people to proactively uncover – and ultimately break – the chains of cause and effect that link chemicals and their toxicity to humans and the environment.
EDUCATION
University of Guelph
Ph.D.
University of Toronto - University of St. Michael's College
B.Sc.
SKILLS
ABOUT JOHN COLBOURNE
Since arriving in Birmingham in 2012, I have led the grass-roots international Environment Care Consortium whose mission statement commits “to offer leadership at making the environment safe from toxic chemicals that poison the water, soil and air”. The Consortium now numbers over 100 science, legal and public health experts & students that confront the global health and justice problems caused by pollution. Our solution is \'action research\' that uses precision toxicology and environmental governance to reduce the burden of pollution, based on vastly improved opportunities for effective recourse. In partnership with the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, I co-founded the charitable arm of this organization based in the USA. The Environment Care Foundation was launched in 2019. The Consortium’s focus is on the growing public health crisis in low- and middle-income countries, where one in four people die because of exposure to pollution. In parallel, and to introduce our precision toxicology to control pollution in high-income countries, I co-founded a business in December 2018. Michabo Health Science provides scientific solutions to better understand the root causes of exposure-related harm, so that chemical toxicity can be prevented, and remedies can be found to support health and economic growth. The Precision Toxicology initiative received significant grant funding from the European Commission in 2021, which assembles 15 institutions from the Environment Care Consortium to better protect human health and the environment by using non-traditional test species, multiple fields of knowledge, and powerful computational approaches to understand which chemicals are toxic and why.
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