Spring 2025 Seminar Schedule.
Join us every Wednesday from 1:00-1:50 in L112, L110* or Zoom:
Spring 2025 Schedule Summary |
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| Date | Speaker | Seminar Titles and Topics |
| Jan 22 | Denise January Environmental Justice Assistance Network Coordinator Alternatives for Community and Environment |
*Seminar will be in L110 Responding to Scientific & Legal Needs of Environmental Justice Communities in MA: Examples & How to Get Involved |
| Jan 29 | Laura T. Cabrera-Rivera, Rietta Wagoner Department of Environmental Health: Emerging Scholars BUSPH |
Laura: Heat Stress in Learning Environments: Assessing Climate Impacts & Disparities in Puerto Rico’s Schools Rietta: Bridging Borders: Community Health Workers Driving Change in Migrant Agricultural Communities |
| Feb 5 | Rachit Sharma, Eric Brown Jr. Department of Environmental Health: Emerging Scholars BUSPH |
Rachit: Spatial Variability and Social Susceptibility in the Acute Effects of PM2.5 on Pediatric Seizures and Epilepsy in New York City Eric: It’s Getting Hot in Here: Combined Exposure to Chemicals, Social Stress, and Extreme Heat on Preterm Birth |
| Feb 12 | Jocelyn Fimbres, Charlotte Robbins, Lydia Lichtiger, Asher Clissold Department of Environmental Health: PhD Students & Staff BUSPH |
Jocelyn: Kidney Injury Biomarkers in the Meso American Nephropathy Study (MANOS) Charlotte, Lydia, Asher: Immigrant Enclaves, Food Access, and Air Pollution in the Children’s Health Watch Study |
| Feb 19 | Jaime Madrigano
Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Engineering John Hopkins University |
Research Triangulation: How to (continue to) Move Forward on Climate and Health Through Different Research Methods
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| Feb 26 | Brent Coull Professor of Biostatistics Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health |
Recent Advances in Kernel-Based Statistical Methods for Environmental Mixtures Data
Bio: Dr. Brent Coull is a Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His current research interests fall into the broad areas of categorical data analysis and semiparametric regression modeling. Recent topics in the analysis of categorical data include capture-recapture mixture models, random effect models for multiple discrete binary outcomes, confidence intervals for a binomial proportion, and order-restricted methods for stratified contingency tables. In the area of semiparametric regression modeling, he has focused on the development of such models for complex data structures often encountered in public health settings, such as cross-over and longitudinal settings.
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| Mar 5 | Chad Milando Research Scientist Department of Environmental Health BUSPH |
New Local Data to Enable Research and Advocacy |
| Mar 12 | CANCELLED | |
| Mar 19 | CANCELLED | |
| Mar 26 | Patricia Fabian Associate Professor Department of Environmental Health BUSPH |
Energy Transitions, Public Schools and Extreme Heat: New Transdisciplinary Research
Bio: Dr. Fabian is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Associate Director at the Institute for Global Sustainability at Boston University. Dr. Fabian will share ongoing research from new climate and sustainability projects including the Clean Energy & Environment Legacy Transition (CELT), the Clean air, Health and School Sustainability (CHESS), and a project to Make extreme weather health impacts visible through household energy, climate, and sustainability policies in frontline communities. |
| April 2 | Erin Polka, Niouma Semega
Department of Environmental Health: PhD Students BUSPH |
Erin: From Extraction to Energy Transition: Health Impacts and Equity Across Oil & Gas Supply Chain Bio: This talk will present ongoing work on health disparities across the oil and gas supply chain—from extraction impacts in California to clean energy transitions in Massachusetts. Niouma: BS Gas Stove Replacement Project |
| April 9 | Jonathan Lee, Grace Betts
Department of Environmental Health: PhD Students BUSPH |
*Seminar will be in L110 Jonathan: B-COOL – A Multi-Sector Collaborative Research Project to Measure Extreme Heat in Boston Neighborhoods Bio: In the summer of 2024, a collaborative research team from Boston University School of Public Health, the City of Boston, A Better City, and the Boston Foundation was formed to investigate the experience of extreme heat in hotspot neighborhoods identified by the City of Boston Heat Resilience Plan (2022). We found that when a heat advisory or heat emergency was declared by the City based on readings from the National Weather Station located at Boston Logan Airport, several neighborhoods had already reached those thresholds days before and lasted for several days after the declaration ended. This presentation will showcase these findings as well as other public health related measures of extreme heat. Grace: How Are Health and Equity Being Considered in Land Use? |
| April 16 | Margaret Quaid, Selene Vences
Department of Environmental Health: PhD Students BUSPH |
Margaret: Arsenic Exposure and Blood Pressure Outcomes in the MANOS Cohort
Selene:
Mental Health Among Adolescents at High Risk for CKD of Non-Traditional Origin in Nicaragua: A Mixed Methods Assessment
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| April 25 | Michelle Bell Mary E. Pinchot Professor of Environmental Health Yale School of the Environment |
*Friday Seminar Environmental Health: Learning From Our Past, Bettering Our Future |
| April 30 | ||