Kathleen Ruff, Canadian activist in the field of human rights, science integrity and in the fight against asbestos trade, will be in Turin and Novara, on May, 12 and 14, to held a seminar "Conflicting interests and scientific communication".
Ruff, RightOnCanada founder, among the other awards, received the Canadian Public Health Association’s National Public Health Hero Award for her work in mobilizing the scientific community to challenge the asbestos industry’s distortion of scientific evidence and to call for an end to Canada’s asbestos mining and export.
In 2013, Ruff was given a Special Award by the Collegium Ramazzini to honor her steadfast and effective advocacy in the international effort to ban the ongoing use of asbestos and to promote better occupational and environmental health protections throughout the world.