EOHS Events
Join the EOHS Community Cafe monthly on the 1st Wednesday 12-12:50pm CST
Archived Community Cafe Sessions
Fall 2024 Archived Presentations
| Date | Speaker(s) | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9/4 | Kristen Malecki, PhD. Professor, UIC SPH EOHS | East Palestine, Ohio, Engaging Communities in Shaping Science and Decisions: Experiences The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine |
| 10/02 | Florence Becot, PhD. Associate Professor. Penn State U Julie Sorenson, PhD. Director. NY Center Ag Medicine and Health David Meredith, PhD. Research Officer. Ag and Food Development Authority (teagasc), Ireland | What is the Role of the Occupational Health and Safety Researcher in Tumultuous Times? |
| 11/6 | Brett Shannon, PhD | Environmental and Occupational Justice in Injury Surveillance |
| 12/4 | Kristen Malecki, on behalf of The UIC Center for Climate and Health Equity (CECHE) | Interdisciplinary Climate and Health Research |
Fall 2023 Archived Presentations
| Date | Speaker | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8/23 | Kristen C. Malecki, PhD, MPH | Community Cafe Kick-off. |
| 8/30 | Laurel Berman, PhD, MS | From UIC to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. |
| 09/06 | David Jacobs, PhD, CIH | UIC’s Evaluation of the Illinois Comprehensive Lead Education and Reduction through Window Replacement (CLEAR-WIN) Program & The Evolution of U.S. Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Science & Policy. |
| 09/13 | Kim Hargis, MD, MPH | Occupational Medicine at UIC. |
| 09/20 | Brett Shanon, Chibuzor Abasalim, Lupita Quintana Tejeda | Pilot Projects Training Grant Awardee Presentations. |
| 09/27 | Abhislasha Shreshta, PhD, MPH | Becoming Uncultured: Using Molecular methods for Public Health-related water quality monitoring. |
| 10/04 | Karen Agay-Shay, PhD, MSc | Becoming Uncultured: Using Molecular methods for Public Health-related water quality monitoring. |
| 10/11 | Kathleen Rospenda, PhD | Long-term Health-related Effects of Workplace Harassment. |
| 10/18 | Journal Club | In-class learning activity. |
| 10/25 | Susan Buchanan, PhD, MPH, MD | Endocrine Disruption in Environmental Health. |
| 11/01 | Mary Turyk, PhD | Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology. |
| 11/08 | Lee Friedman, PhD | Using Data Linkage to Evaluate the Completeness and Accuracy of Employer Reporting of Severe Injuries/Illnesses to OSHA. |
| 11/15 | Leonard Go, PhD | Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis in America: What’s Old is New Again. |
| 11/22 | Thanksgiving week | No Community Cafe. |
| 11/29 | Sheetal Khedkar Rao, MD | Co-founder Nordson Green Earth Foundation , Adjunct faculty EOHS |
Spring 2023 Archived Presentations
| Date | Speaker | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| 01/11 | Linda Forst, MD, MPH | Farmworker health and well-being. |
| 02/25 | Sam Dorevitch, MD | Sustainably producing and providing safe drinking water in Kenya.. |
| 02/01 | Robert Cohen, MD | UIC Mining Education and Research Center – Investigating, Intervening, and Advocating to improve the health and safety of mine workers. |
| 02/08 | Cynthia Klein-Banai, PhD | Campus Sustainability and Environmental Justice. |
| 02/15 | Margaret Sietsema, PhD | Cough, Cough, PANIC: Aerosol Exposures and Control in Healthcare Settings. |
| 02/22 | Honghyuk Kim, PhD | How epidemiology and data science can contribute to building an equitable society under climate change. |
| 03/01 | Preethi Pratap, PhD | Crafting a Decent Work Policy - Helping Author a Decent Work Policy with APHA. |
| 03/08 | Elena Grossman, MPH | Decent Work in the United States: A Public Health Perspective. |
| 03/15 | Kirsten Almberg, PhD | Turning Unhealthy Work into Healthy Work: The Research and Outreach of the Center for Healthy Work |
| 03/29 | Mehdi Amouei Torkmahalleh, PhD | Addressing the Exposure to Ultrafine Particles for Advancing the Aerosol Science and Translational Science. |
| 04/05 | Michael Cailas, PhD | Environmental Justice Issues, Methods, and Solutions. |
| 04/12 | Yua Shao, PhD | Advancing Occupational and Environmental Health Research through Innovative Engineering Approaches. |
| 04/19 | Susan Buchanan, MD, MPH | Children’s and reproductive environmental health: Case example of fish consumption. |
| 04/26 | Tessa Bonney, PhD | The Role of Local Health Departments & Occupational Health Research and Practice. |
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