Environmental Factor Newsletter, February 2022

Breast cancer group honors Collman with Distinguished Service Award

NIEHS Acting Deputy Director Gwen Collman, Ph.D., accepted the award during a webinar hosted by the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition.

Early-career researchers celebrated in new speaker series

The NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers kicked off the series with talks on flame retardants, computational toxicology.

Calendar

Feb
04

NIEHS Keystone Science Lecture Seminar Series Presents: 'The Impact of Coordinated Analytical and Data Management Methods with Identification and Remediation of Legacy and Modern Sources of Airborne PCBs'
Event Details

Location: Online
Time: 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Speaker(s): Keri Hornbuckle, Ph.D., professor of civil and environmental engineering, University of Iowa.

Feb
09

National Institutes of Health Climate Change and Health Webinar Series Presents: “Why Climate Change Is a Health Threat”
Event Details

Location: Online
Time: noon-1:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Robert Bullard, Ph.D., distinguished professor of urban planning and environmental policy, Texas Southern University. Welcome by Eliseo Perez-Stable, M.D., director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.

Feb
14

NIEHS Keystone Science Lecture Seminar Series Presents: “Participatory Research and Data Sharing: Integrating Diverse Forms of Vulnerability and Resiliency Data to Inform Change”
Event Details

Location: Online
Time: 11:00 a.m.-noon
Speaker(s): Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta, Ph.D., associate professor of environmental science, College of Public Health and Global Change, University of Arizona.

Feb
15

Meeting of the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council
Event Details

Location: Online
Time: 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): The 165th meeting of the NAEHSC will be webcast live. See agenda for full details.
Full agenda

Feb
22

National Institutes of Health Climate Change and Health Webinar Series Presents: “Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Health: What Lies Ahead.”
Event Details

Location: Online
Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Jonathan Samet, M.D., Colorado School of Public Health, and Tami Bond, Ph.D., Colorado State University.

Feb
28-01

NIEHS Workshop: “Advancing Environmental Health Equity Through Implementation Science”
Event Details

Location: Online
Time: 11:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m.
Speaker(s): This two-day workshop will explore how environmental health scientists can use implementation science to inform the development, adaptation, implementation, and scale-up of interventions, practices, and policies to prevent harmful environmental exposures and advance environmental health equity.
Registration open

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