Environmental Factor Newsletter, February 2019

Los Angeles youths take on air monitoring

Map where a student documented her daily exposure to high levels of air pollution on her bus ride to school

Los Angeles students in communities of color record air quality on their daily routes and create story maps of their experiences in this innovative project.

Fish consumption advisories that work

Kathleen Gray discussed how to make fish advisories that sport, subsistence, and recreational fishermen can understand.

Calendar

Feb
01

Triangle Global Health Consortium Career Day
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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Feb
04

National Toxicology Program peer review of “Draft NTP Monograph on the Systematic Review of Evidence of Long-Term Neurological Effects Following Acute Exposure to the Organophosphorus Nerve Agent Sarin”
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Location: Webcast
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Register to attend via webcast

Feb
09

Triangle Consortium for Reproductive Biology 2019 Conference
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Speaker(s): Paula Cohen, Ph.D., from Cornell University, and others.
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Feb
12

NIEHS Distinguished Lecture Series presents “Epigenetic Plasticity as a Target for Environmental Exposures”
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 11:00 a.m. – noon
Speaker(s): Cheryl Lyn Walker, Ph.D., from Baylor College of Medicine

Feb
13

NIEHS Exposure Science and the Exposome Webinar Series presents “Think Globally, Breathe Locally: Sensing Air Pollution for a Planet of Cities”
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Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Speaker(s): Joshua Apte, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
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Feb
14

NIEHS Diversity Speaker Series presents “Black Man in a White Coat”
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 10:00 a.m. – noon
Speaker(s): Damon Tweedy, M.D., from Duke University

Feb
15

NIEHS Partnerships for Environmental Public Health presents “Culturally Appropriate Communications in Environmental Health Sciences Research”
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Location: Webinar
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Sherry Baron, M.D., Queens College; Isabel Cuervo, Ph.D., Queens College; Javier Gallardo, Make the Road New York; Jada Brooks, Ph.D., University of North Carolina School of Nursing; Kim Pevia, K.A.P. Inner Prizes
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Feb
26

Keystone Science Seminar Series presents “Paternal Preconception Exposure and Children’s Health”
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Location: Keystone 1003AB
Time: 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Speaker(s): Russ Hauser, M.D., Sc.D., from Harvard University

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