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Climate Change, Health & Hope

Monday, September 13th at 12pm ET via Zoom
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Dr. Frumkin is an internist, environmental and occupational medicine specialist and epidemiologist. He will discuss the health impacts of the global climate crisis, as well as hope as a positive influence on human health and response to these challenges. He has served as Dean of the University of Washington School of Public Health, led the “Our Planet, Our Health” initiative at the Wellcome Trust, directed the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and served as Special Assistant to the CDC Director for Climate Change and Health. Previously he served as Professor and Chair of Environmental and Occupational Health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Emory Medical School.

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CLEAN hosted Dr. Rebecca Philipsborn of Emory University School of Medicine for the first CLEAN Sustainability in Medicine Lecture on Tuesday, March 23rd at 3pm via Zoom. Dr. Philipsborn is a practicing pediatrician, medical educator, and has written extensively on the linkages between climate change and health, medical education, and health equity.

The environment is known to impact human health, especially cardiovascular health, but this is a complex thing to study. How do we find these links? EPA computational biologist Dr. Cavin Ward-Caviness discussed how the Environmental Protection Agency is conducting research that is reshaping how we view and understand environmental health, the insights that have come from electronic health records, and how we are integrating these novel studies with existing epidemiology and toxicology to advance public health.

On Thursday September 3 at 9:30 AM ET, the UNC Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering hosted Chandra Taylor, a senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center, discussing Environmental Justice in North Carolina for their Centennial Seminar Series. More information here: https://sph.unc.edu/event/environmental-sciences-and-engineering-centennial-seminar-series-chandra-taylor-environmental-justice-in-north-carolina/