Manuscript Division des Division manuscrits Dr. Rosalie Bertell fonds MG 31 K 39 Finding aid no. 2081/Instrument de recherche no 2081 Prepared by Judi Cumming of the Préparé par Judi Cumming pour la Economic and Public Archives Section, Section des archives économiques et in 1996,1997, 2002 and 2003. publiques en 1996,1997, 2002 et 2003. TABLE OF CONTENTS Biographical Description......................................i-ii Series Descriptions........................................ iii-vi Original Writings Volumes 1 to 6, 143 ................................ 1-16, 103 Rotary Work, Early Writings Volumes 7 to 9 ........................................ 17 Case Files Vols. 10 to 42, 129, 132, 133 and 137, 139-140, 144-150. 18-48,. 92, 95-99, 105-114 International Institute of Concern for Public Health Volumes 43 to 45, 57 to 94, 135-136, 141 to 142 ..... 49-51, 57-73, 99-101 Nuclear information used in the book No Immediate Danger: Research files and Publicity Volumes 46 to 57 ..................................... 52-56 General Research Volumes 95 to 110, 140, 142 to 143 ................... 74-80, 98-99 General Research: Subject Files Volume 111 to 122, 134 ......................... 81-87, 101-103 International Commission of Health Professionals for Health and Human Rights Volumes 123 to 125 ................................... 88-90 Travel and Speaking Engagements Volumes 126 to 128, 143 ...............................91, 103 Right Livelihood Award and other awards Volumes 129-130 ..................................... 92-93 International Institute of Concern for Public Health: Bibliographic Database Volumes 130 and 138 .................................... 94 International and other press clippings Volume 131 .......................................... 95 Robert Del Tredici Volume 132 .......................................... 95 Atomic Veterans Volume 150 . .. 112-114 Audiocassettes......................................... 115-122 Video recordings ....................................... 123-130 Slides and Photographs................................... 131-133 Posters.............................................. 134-135 Rosalie Bertell fonds MG 31 K 39 Biographical Description Dr. Rosalie Bertell was born at Buffalo, New York, in 1929. She received a doctorate in mathematics, with a specialty in biometrics, from the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. (Biometrics is the science of mathematical predictions of medical phenomenon). She is a member of the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart. Since 1969, she has studied cancer and birth defects, especially as they relate to low level radiation exposure and has been a research consultant in biometry, with specialty in public health aspects of exposure to ionizing radiation. She was the Senior Cancer Research Scientist, Tri-State Leukemia Survey at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, N.Y., 1970 to 1978 and was instrumental in founding the Ministry of Concern for Public Health in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1978. Coming to Canada in 1980, she became an Energy and Public Health Specialist with the Jesuit Centre for Social Faith and Justice, Toronto, 1980 to 1984. She founded the non- profit International Institute of Concern for Public Health and served as its Director of Research and Director of the Board, from 1984 to 1987 and as president from 1987 to 1994. The institute provided scientific and technical assistance to government agencies, citizens’ groups and labour unions relating to environmental hazards as well as a scientific publication on environmental hazards. Dr. Bertell was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board on the Great Lakes of the International Joint Commission, 1991-1995, and to the International Joint Commission’s Nuclear Task Force in 1995. She was a consultant with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the United States Environmental Protection Agency. She currently serves on Advisory Boards to the Great Lakes Health Effects Program of Health Canada, the Ontario Environmental Assessment Board, Global Education Associates (New York) and the NGO Disarmament Committee at the United Nations. She advocates stricter safeguards and better monitoring of health for nuclear workers and the general public, a phase out of nuclear technology for weapons or power generation, waste isolation rather than disposal, standardized international monitoring of environmental and human health, and protection of the biosphere from genotoxic damage. Dr. Bertell has published extensively in her field including the book No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth, which was first published in 1985, and is editor-in-chief of the periodical, International Perspectives in Public Health. The Bertell archival records and the records of the International Institute of Concern for Page i Public Health were received from Dr. Bertell in 1995, 1996 and 2001. The Bertell fonds The fonds documents Dr. Bertell’s research and activities to identify global environmental hazards and their effects on public health, with special emphasis on the hazards of radiation caused by global dependence on nuclear energy. In addition, Dr. Bertell’s work and research on international human rights’ issues, the military and nuclear weapons, and women’s health are documented. The International Institute of Concern for Public Health sous-fonds or sub-fonds The sous-fonds or sub-fonds consists of the records of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health documenting international, national and local environmental issues. Notes on the structure of the fonds Information on subjects and individuals overlaps different series because of the series structure. Additional material received in 1996, 2003 and 2003 was incorporated into the existing series and required some non-consecutive volume numbering, e.g., Case Files: vols. 10 to 42, 129, 132, 133 and 137, 139 to 150. There are series which properly relate to Dr. Bertell and her work and series which are attached to the records of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health. Multiple Media Records and the Bertell library of periodicals and reports Sound recordings, video recordings, photographs, slides and posters have been transferred to the Visual and Sound Archives Division. Dr. Bertell’s extensive library of periodicals, newspapers, and other publications have been transferred to the University of Guelph via Dr. Karen Farbridge, Executive Director, Ontario Public Interest Research Group. However, a database containing descriptions of the contents of this library may be consulted here. Access Considerations Researchers are requested to sign an undertaking that they will not publish information about living persons without their knowledge and consent. Certain volumes contain individual files with sensitive information and access to these specific volumes is restricted. Finding Aid No. 2081 Finding aid no. 2081 provides a listing of file titles by series for volumes 1 to 150 of the textual and the electronic records. Also provided is a general listing of most multiple media material transferred to the Visual and Sound Archives Division. The automated version of the finding aid, a WordPerfect 6.1 document, should be consulted to locate information which appears in several series about a specific topic or individual. The search function in WordPerfect is useful for this type of action. Page ii Series Descriptions Original Writings, 1942-2000, 1.35 m. Volumes 1 to 6 and 143. Series consists of affidavits, articles, drafts of chapters of books, interviews, lectures, letters to newspaper editors, poems, speeches at conferences, statements and testimony before legislative bodies, on a variety of topics associated with human health and the environment. Major subject areas include: breast cancer, cancer causing phenomena, Chernobyl, ionizing radiation, nuclear technology and its consequences, nuclear power and civil rights, nuclear weapons, radioactivity, uranium, and women and the environment. The series also contains biographical material regarding Dr. Bertell. Published writings appear, for the most parts, in the English language but also in other languages, for instance, Finnish, French and Japanese. Rotary Work, Early Writings, 1976-1994, .66 m. Volumes 7 to 9. Series consists of writings, scientific research notes, poems, correspondence, reports, and printed matter relating to Dr. Bertell’s research and activities, including the preparation of a film on nuclear hazards, ionizing radiation, nuclear weapons, Chernobyl and her work in the Ukraine. Case Files, 1979-1999, 7.83 m. Volumes 10 to 42, 129, 132, 133, 137, 139, 140, 144- 150. Electronic records, 1991, 1994, Volumes 133, 137. 413,381 bytes. Series consists of the project or legal cases in which Dr. Bertell participated as an expert scientific witness for individuals or groups of people victimized by environmental disasters, in Canada, the United States, India, Ireland, Europe, Malaysia, the Marshall Islands and Scotland. Of particular Canadian interest are the projects associated with Caribou and Inuit, Mississauga First Nation Reserve, Health 2000 (Ontario), Kiggavik Uranium Mine, Ontario Hydro, Scarborough radioactive soil and Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan. The case files are organized alphabetically by case and not by country. A majority of the documents are written in English but many other languages may be found in the series. Nuclear information used in “No Immediate Danger”, ca. 1973-1985, 2.500 m. Volumes 46 to 57. Series consists of publicity as well as research