The League of Women Voters of PA and the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health will host a virtual 2020 Shale Gas and Public Health Conference November 17-18.

The conference will feature five topic segments. Each includes a panel discussion led by a top researcher offering framing remarks--

-- Novel Methods of Assessing Air Exposures & Public Health -Nicole Deziel PhD, MHS, Yale with Petros Koutrakis PhD, Harvard and Jill Johnston PhD, USC

-- Unconventional Oil & Gas,Community Impacts & Environmental Justice -Lara Cushing PhD, MPH, UCLA; Jim Fabisiak, PhD, U of Pittsburgh with Cassandra Clark, Yale, and Rebecca Franz, Chief Deputy Attorney General of PA

-- New Research on Birth Outcomes -Lisa McKenzie, PhD, MPH, U of Colorado Anschutz with David Gonzalez, Stanford and Kathy V Tran, UC Berkeley

-- New Research on Other Health Outcomes -Seth Shonkoff, PhD, MPH PSE Healthy Energy/UC Berkeley with Irena Gorski Steiner, MPH, Johns Hopkins; Mary Willis, MPH, Oregon State; and David Brown, ScD, Environmental Health Project

-- Climate Change, COVID 19, Fossil Fuels and Plastics – Brian Schwartz, MD, Johns Hopkins with Kristina Marusic, Environmental Health News

There will also be a networking session on Tuesday from 3:45-4:30.

Click Here to register and for more information.  Questions should be directed to 800-617-4253.

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[Posted: October 27, 2020]

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