Environmental Factor Newsletter, January 2022

Challenges facing Native Americans at NIH focus of diversity lecture

Enhancing inclusion is key to a more vibrant workplace, said National Institutes of Health diversity specialist Ashley Wells at NIEHS event.

Calendar

Jan
11-12

NIEHS Virtual Workshop: “Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Gene-Environment Interaction Research.” For questions, contact Kimberly McAllister, NIEHS program director, at 984-287-3287.
Event Details

Location: Online
Time: 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): A two-day virtual workshop to explore ethical, legal, and social implications of research related to gene-environment interaction and genetic susceptibility to environmental exposures.

Jan
11

NIEHS Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch Virtual Seminar: “Identifying Multivariate Growth Trajectories via the Bayesian Tensor Mixture Models”
Event Details

Location: Online
Time: 11:00 a.m.-noon
Speaker(s): Shanshan Zhao, Ph.D., identifies growth trajectories from multivariate longitudinal data.
Join via Zoom

Jan
13

NIEHS Women’s Health Awareness Virtual Series “RealTalk with the Experts” Presents: “Women’s Health and Inflammation: Controlling Inflammation for a Healthier You”
Event Details

Location: Online
Time: 6:30-7:45 p.m.
Speaker(s): Megan E. B. Clowse, M.D., rheumatologist, Duke University School of Medicine. Session co-chairs: Mariah Prince from Duke University School of Public Health and Willa Robinson Allen from Durham County Department of Public Health.
Free registration

Jan
19

NIEHS Keystone Science Lecture: “Exposure to Metals From Electronic Cigarette Use — Preliminary Results From the EMIT Study”
Event Details

Location: Online
Time: 11:00 a.m.-noon
Speaker(s): Ana Maria Rule, Ph.D., assistant professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Preregistration required

Jan
19

2022 North Carolina Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting
Event Details

Location: Online
Time: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): K. Lily Wu, Ph.D., from the California Environmental Protection Agency, and Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi, Ph.D., from North Carolina A&T State University
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Jan
25

ICCVAM Communities of Practice Webinar 2022: “New Approach Methodologies to Assess (Developmental) Neurotoxicity”
Event Details

Location: Online
Time: 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Speaker(s): This event is organized on behalf of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternatives Methods (ICCVAM) by the National Toxicology Program Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods.
More information

Jan
27

NIEHS Partnerships for Environmental Public Health Webinar: “Community Health Workers: Building Cultural Bridges to Address Environmental Public Health”
Event Details

Location: Online
Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Attendees will hear two co-presentations about NIEHS-funded projects where academics are partnering with community health workers to address local environmental health issues.

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