Sara Perl Egendorf, PhD Candidate in Earth & Environmental Sciences at CUNY Graduate Center, will give a guest seminar on "Applying a Systems Approach to the Legacy of Lead in Soil."
Location: Barry Commoner Center for Health and Environment, Queens College
Isabel Cuervo, PhD will present on developing culturally appropriate communication in the Safe & Just study as a part of the Centering Community webinar hosted by Detroit URC.
Alfredo Morabia, PhD, MPH, will present the grand rounds at the University of Miami Graduate Program in Public Health.
Sherry Baron, MD and Isabel Cuervo, PhD will present in a webinar hosted by NIEHS titled "Culturally Appropriate Communications in Environmental Health Sciences Research." Registration is required to participate.
Sherry Baron, MD has been featured as a highlighted grantee by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Alfredo Morabia, PhD, MPH, will present "A Year in Review: Main Issues in Public Health in 2018 as Conveyed in AJPH" for the Texas A&M University School of Public Health.The event is being organized by the Department of Health and Kinesiology. More information is available here.
Location: Texas A&M University
Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH, will present at the NYNJ ERC's 39th Annual Scientific Meeting, titled "Safety and Health in a Changing World." Dr. Markowitz will present "Selected Contributions of the NY/NJ ERC." The meeting takes place at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and registration is available here.
Location: Icahn School of Medicine, NYC
An interview with Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH, about a recently published study on CT scans and lung cancer, is available from the CUNY Graduate Center.
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD will be a panelist at the Epidemiology Centennial Symposium at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Location: Baltimore, MD
Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH, will present "LDCT screening for lung cancer in high-risk nuclear weapons workers, USA" at the Uniersita Delgi Studi Di Milano, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health. More information is available here.
Location: Milano
Isabel Cuervo, PhD will present at the 2018 conference of the American Evaluation Association. Her talk "Design Thinking for Culturally Responsive Evaluation: Five Strategies for Stakeholder Engagement with Latinx Communities" will be held in the Saturday morning session.
Location: Cleveland, OH
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, will give a lecture to the Division of Public Health and the Department of Family and Prevenative Medicine at University of Utah. More information is available here.
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
The Barry Commoner Center will host a 2-day workshop on occupational lung cancer screening.
Location: Queens College, NY
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD will present at the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences. He will participate in the Friday keynote panel titled "Technological Innovations and Population Health...Friends, Foes, or Both?"
Location: Washington DC
Isabel P. Cuervo, PhD co-authored an article for the American Evaluation Association's blog. The article is titled "Applying Design Thinking in Evaluation" and is available here.
Holger Eisl, PhD, will participate in the Air Sensors International Conference 2018. His contributions will include chairing the Monitor Siting session, and a presentation titled "Concepts for Strategic Siting of Fixed Site Low Cost Monitoring Networks"
Location: Oakland, CA
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, will teach a course on the History of Epidemiologic Ideas as a part of the Erasmus Summer Programme at The Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences.
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD will participate in the 12º Congresso Brasileiro de Saúde Coletiva. He will present as a part of round table discussions on scientific publication in public health and the history of epidemiology.
Location: Rio de Janeiro
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD will contribute to the 2018 seminar series of the Graduate Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Bio statistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His seminar will be "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Cardiovascular Diseases: A Cohort Study of Men and Women involved in Cleaning the Debris of the World Trace Center Complex"
Location: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH will participate in the 2018 Spring/Summer meeting of the WTC Health Program. He will present an overview of the medical monitoring exams provided through the program.
Location: Jacob J. Javits Federal Building, New York
Sherry Baron, MD and Isabel Cuervo, PhD will give a special seminar on their upcoming project "Safe & Just Cleaners: Reducing Exposures To Toxic Cleaning Chemical Products Among Low-wage Immigrant Latino/a Community Members"
Location: Barry Commoner Center, Queens College
Rodney Ehrlich, MBChB, PhD will give a special seminar at the Barry Commoner Center titled "Politics through the Lens of Occupational Health in South Africa." Dr. Ehrlich joins us from the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Location: Barry Commoner Center, Queens College
Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH will give a talk on "Lung Cancer Surveillance in Asbestos Exposed Populations" as part of the International Asbesotos Seminar. He will also present on "Asbestos: Health and Workplace Surveillance"
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sherry Baron, MD, MPH and Isabel Cuervo, PhD will participate in a webinar titled "Integrated Low-Wage Worker Health Promotion and Prevention in a Community Space." The event is being organized by The Center for Healthy Work at University of Illinois at Chicago. Registration is available here.
The Barry Commoner Center will have a table of information and equipment related to the NYCCAS program at Car Free Earth Day in Manhattan. The event takes place from 9am to 3pm along Broadway from Times Square to Union Square.
Holger Eisl, PhD will participate in a webinar titled "Data in Community Air Quality Projects" with Louis Omeldo and Humberto Lugo of Comite Civico Del Valle, Inc. The webinar is organized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a part of a series to help communities manage data from air quality projects. Registration is available here.
Isabel P Cuervo, PhD was profiled on the Queens College website.
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD will moderate a panel titled "Teaching Public Health: The Past and the Present" as a part of a Boston University deans symposium on Teaching Public Health.
Location: Boston University, MA
Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will lead workshops on preventing occupational cancer at the Health, Safety and Environment Conference of the United Steel Workers.
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, will give a keynote lecture at the American Heart Association's EPI/ Lifestyle Scientific Sessions. The theme of the talk will be Health Promotion: Risk Prediction to Risk Prevention.
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will present on lung cancer screening at the Health and Safety Conference of the International Association of Heat & Frost Insulators & Allied Workers.
Location: Florida
Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will attend as a member the meeting of the World Trade Center Scientific and Technical Advisory Board of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Location: New York City
Holger M. Eisl, PhD will give a seminar on the New York City Community Air Survey at University of Ferrara.
Location: Ferrara, Italy
The Worker Health Protection Program issued its latest HealthWatch newsletter in February of 2018. The newsletter contains program updates and other information of interest to former Department of Energy workers. The newsletter is distributed to all medical screening participants and other stakeholders.
Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will speak on “CT Screening for Lung Cancer: An Unprecedented Opportunity to Reduce Occupational Cancer Mortality” at the Annual Ramazzini Days on the Collegium Ramazzini. The full schedule is available here.
Location: Carpi, Italy
Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will present on “Adding Medical Conditions” at the World Trade Center Research to Care Community Engagement Conference hosted by the WTC Health Program at NYU Langone Medical Center. Information and registration is available here.
Location: NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will give a lecture on occupational bladder and lung cancer at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Location: Mount Sinai, New York
Isabel Cuervo, PhD and Sherry Baron, MD, MPH from Immigrant Worker Studies collaborated with Les Leopold, MPA to publish "Promoting Community Preparedness and Resilience: A Latino Immigrant Community-Driven Project Following Hurricane Sandy" in the September issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
Isabel Cuervo, PhD, has been selected as a member-scholar of the 2017-2018 Leaders in Equitable Evaluation and Diversity (LEEAD) cohort of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The program aims to "strengthen the pipeline of underrepresented minority scholars in evaluation by leveraging the research skills and content expertise of established post doctoral scholars of race and ethnic backgrounds that are underrepresented in the field." The yearlong program comprises training in evaluation, professional mentorship, and an evaluation residency project.
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, will teach a course on the History of Epidemiologic Ideas as a part of the Erasmus Summer Programme at The Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences.
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH will give a lecture on immigrants and occupational health at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Location: Mount Sinai, New York City
Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH will attend as a member the Board of Scientific Counselors meeting of the National Toxicology Program at National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Information on a live stream will be available here.
Location: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Holger M. Eisl, PhD will give a special seminar titled "Assessing Neighborhood Air Quality In New York City: The Roles of the NYCCAS Program and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches." The seminar takes place at the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College.
Location: Queens College, New York
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, will chair a session on the History of Epidemiology as a part of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research.
Location: Seattle, Washington
Rodney Ehrlich, MBChB, PhD will give a special seminar at the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment. Dr. Ehrlich joins us from the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. The seminar is titled "Protecting Health Care Workers from TB in High TV/HIV Setting in South Africa: Elements of an Occupational Health Policy."
Location: Barry Commoner Center for Health and Environment, New York
Isabel P Cuervo, PhD will present "Occupational Safety and Health Issues of Low-wage and Immigrant Workers" with Arturo Archila and Diana Mejia at the annual scientific meeting of the NY/NJ Occupational Safety and Health Center.
Location: Mount Siani, New York
Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH will lead as Chair the next meeting of the U.S. Department of Labor's Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health.
Location: Hanford, Washington
Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH will speak about lung cancer screening during the Medical Advancements panel for the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization's annual conference.
Location: Arlington, Virgina
Holger M. Eisl, PhD will be a guest speaker at the annual public hearing of the New Jersey Clean Air Council. The hearing will feature a variety of expert testimony on the current possibilities of low cost air quality monitoring technology. A copy of his testimony can be found here.
Location: Trenton, New Jersey
Holger M. Eisl, PhD will consult with Asphalt Green to create a monitoring program assessing the ambient air quality at the sports complex from 2017 to 2020. This independent project is fully funded by Asphalt Green, created in response to concerns of added pollution by the construction and operation of the East 91st Street Marine Transfer Station.
Location: New York, NY
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, will discuss writing about epidemiology at the Columbia University School of Journalism.
Location: School of Journalism, Columbia University
Aflredo Morabia, MD, PhD, will present “Epidemiology: Evolving in the 5th dimension” as part of the New York City Epidemiology Forum at the NYU School of Medicine.
Location: School of Medicine, New York University
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD will participate in the Reducing Health Inequalities symposium at Boston University’s School of Public Health. His lecture is titled “Defining Health Inequalities.” The event will be livestreamed and archived here.
Location: School of Public Health, Boston University
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD and Molly Remch will give a grand rounds titled “WTC-Heart: Major determinants of cardiovascular disease in a cohort of WTC responders” for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Location: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH will participate as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Toxicology Program at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Location: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH will give Grand Rounds in Pulmonary Medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center.
Location: New York City
Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will participate as a member of the NIOSH World Trade Center Scientific and Technincal Advisory Committee.
Location: New York City
Isabel P Cuervo, PhD will present "Connectedness within and across communities: Building community resiliency for disaster preparedness for immigrant Latino workers" at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting.
Location: Denver, Colorado
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD will give Grand Rounds at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. The lecture is titled "Enigmas of Health and Disease: How epidemiology helps unravel scientific mysteries." Registration is available here.
Location: CUNY School of Public Health, New York City
Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH; Lewis Pepper MD, MPH; and Jonathan Corbin, MPH will host a workshop as part of the United Steelworker's 2016 Health, Safety and Environment conference. The workshop is titled "Occupational Health: How Work Affects Diseases of Every Day Life." Participants will discuss occupational links to common illnesses like heart disease, emphysema, and cognitive decline and how the risks from workplace exposures can be reduced.
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Lewis Pepper, MD, MPH will participate in a panel on health and legal issues related to occupational diesel exhaust exposure. He will present a summary of diesel-related health effects with an emphasis on the risk of lung and bladder cancer. This session will occur at a conference of the Transport Workers Union.
Location: Atlantic City, New Jersey
Immigrant Worker Studies will hold a training program for immigrant workers' advocacy organizations on the mobile application they have developed. The application allows workers to document work hazards, including the ability to upload pictures. The training will take place at the Labor Institute in Manhattan and is by invitation only.
Location: Labor Institute, New York City
Alfredo Morabia, PhD, MPH, MD, MSs will give a guest lecture titled "Enigmas of Health and Disease: The contribution of epidemiology to public health." The lecture is part of an all-day seminar celebrating the birthdays of Professor Jørn Olsen and Professor Johannes Ipsen.
Location: Per Kirkeby Auditorium, Aarhus University, Denmark
Tanesha A.Thomas will present "The Symbolic Politics of Environmental Justice: Comparative Analysis of Environmental Justice Areas in Albany, New York." Ms.Thomas is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Location: Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment
Rodney Ehlrich, MBChB, PhD will present a special seminar titled "Migrant workers on the South African gold mines: Changing dynamics of recruitment, disease and mortality." Dr. Ehlrich is an Emeritus Professor joining us from the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Location: Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment
Staff from Immigrant Worker Studies will participate with partnering community-based organizations in a training on emergency preparedness held by the NYC Office of Emergency Management.
Location: New York City
Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will participate as a member in the meeting of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Board of the World Trade Center Health program.
Location: New York City
Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will testify at the informal hearing of OSHA on the proposed beryllium standard.
Location: Washington, DC
Holger M. Eisl, PhD, MRP, MSc will be hosting a workshop (by invitation only) on an innovative data project related to small, portable sensor technology that could revolutionize pollution measurements.
Location: Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment
Alfredo Morabia, PhD, MPH, MD, MSc will give a guest lecture titled "How Epidemiology Helps Unravel Scientific Mysteries" at Tel Aviv University of Public Health.
Location: Merbaum Auditorium, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Alfredo Morabia presents the lecture, Has epidemiology become infatuated with methods?
Location: Johns Hopkins 33rd Graduate Summer Institute of Epidimiology and Biostatistics Seminar Series in Baltimore, MD.
Alfredo Morabia presents the lecture, Trends in Biomedical Research
Location: Swiss Council for Science and Innovation in Bern, Switzerland
Steven Markowitz attends as a member the meeting of the National Toxicology Program Counselors.
Location: NIEHS in Durham, NC.
Alfredo Morabia presents the lecture, Enigmas of Health and Disease: How Epidemiology Helps Unravel Scientific Mysteries.
Location: Hewlett Woodmere Public Library, New York City.
Lew Pepper presents to the Transit Workers Union Local 100 at the Diesel Exposure Awareness Forum.
Location: 195 Montague Street.
Time: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
Steven Markowitz participates as a member in the meeting of the NIOSH World Trade Center Health Program Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee.
Location: New York City.
Alfredo Morabia presents the opening keynote lecture, Enigmas of Health and Disease: How Epidemiology Helps Unravel Scientific Mysteries.
Location: The Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatics Conference, Toronto.
Alfredo Morabia moderates a panel and discuss Seventeenth Century Origins of Population-Based Health Sciences at the 88th annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine.
Location: New Haven, CT.
Steven Markowitz will be speaking about Dr. Irving Selikoff and the Legacy of Asbestos-Related Diseases at the opening of Earl Dotters new exhibit, Badges: A Memorial Tribute to Asbestos Workers, and the Workers Memorial Day Remembrance.
Location: The AFL-CIO in Washington DC.
Steven Markowitz participates as a member in the New York State Occupational Health Clinic Oversight Committee Meeting.
Location: Occupational Health Clinic Oversight Committee, Albany.