EOHS Events
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Archived Community Cafe Sessions Heading link
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 Erika Scott, PhD. Deputy 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 | Max Bremelhemmer, UIC CROCUS and Argonne National Laboratories | Interdisciplinary Collaborations for Advancing Climate Change and Health Research and Mitigation |
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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