Publications

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Cyanobacterial Blooms at Canadian Beaches: Exposures, Health Outcomes, and One Health Implications (2026)

Des fleurs d’eau de cyanobactéries aux plages canadiennes: Expositions, résultats sanitaires, et des implications One Health (2026)

Blog Post

Environmental predictors of recreational water quality in Canada

Binyam Neguisse Desta, Rachel Jardine, Jordan Tustin, Ian Young

Blog Post

National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (2024) https://ncceh.ca/resources/blog/environmental-predictors-recreational-water-quality-canada

Journal Articles

Risk perceptions and behaviours of recreational water users in Canada toward cyanobacteria blooms in freshwater beaches: A qualitative study

Binyam Neguisse Desta, Jordan Tustin, J. Johanna Sanchez, Fatih Sekercioglu, Rachel Jardine, Abhinand Thaivalappil, Ian Young

Research Article

Journal of Environmental Management, 387 (2025): 125859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.125859

Burden of recreational water illness due to exposure to cyanobacteria and their toxins in freshwater beaches in Canada: protocol of a prospective cohort study

Ian Young, J Johanna Sanchez, Fatih Sekerciouglu, Binyam N Desta, Claire Holeton, Dylan Lyng, Victoria Peczulis, Shane Renwick, Teresa Brooks, Jordan Tustin

Study Protocol

JBM open, 14(6) (2024): p.e085406. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-085406

Canadian beach cohort study: protocol of a prospective study to assess the burden of recreational water illness

Ian Young, Binyam N. Desta, J. Johanna Sanchez, Shannon E. Majowicz, Thomas A. Edge, Sarah Elton, David L. Pearl, Teresa Brooks, Andrea Nesbitt, Mahesh Patel, Michael Schwandt, Dylan Lyng, Brandon Krupa, Herb E. Schellhorn, Elizabeth Montgomery, Jordan Tustin

Study Protocol

BMC Public Health, 24(1) (2024): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-19889-6  

Environmental factors associated with Escherichia coli concentration at freshwater beaches on Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Binyam N. Desta ,Johanna Sanchez, Cole Heasley, Ian Young, Jordan Tustin

Research Article

PLOS Water, 3(4) (2024): p.e0000143. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000143 

Recreational water exposures and illness outcomes at a freshwater beach in Toronto, Canada: A prospective cohort pilot study

Young I, Sanchez JJ, Desta BN, Heasley C, Tustin J.

Research Article

PLoS One, 18 (2023): p.e0286584. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286584

Recreational water illness in Canada: a changing risk landscape in the context of climate change

Young I, Sanchez JJ, Tustin J.

Research Article

CJPH, 113 (2022): 940-943. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-022-00688-8

Beach Water Monitoring Practices and Challenges in Ontario Public Health Units

Cole Heasley, Johanna Sanchez, Ian Young, Jordan Tustin

Research Article

Environmental Health Review, 65 (2022): 1. https://doi.org/10.5864/d2022-003

Region-Specific Associations between Environmental Factors and Escherichia coli in Freshwater Beaches in Toronto and Niagara Region, Canada

Sanchez, J., Tustin, J., Heasley, C., Patel, M., Kelly, J., Habjan, A., Waterhouse, R., Young, I

Research Article

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (2021): 12841. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312841

Environmental factors associated with freshwater recreational water quality in Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada: A path analysis

Sanchez, J., Young, I., Heasley, C., Kelly, J., Habjan, A., Waterhouse, R., Tustin, J.

Research Article

Epidemiology and Infection, 149 (2021): E217. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821002120

Systematic review of predictive models of microbial water quality at freshwater recreational beaches

Cole Heasley, Johanna Sanchez, Ian Young, Jordan Tustin

Research Article

PLoSONE, 16(8) (2021): e0256785. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256785