Humans are changing the environment in many ways, and these changes have negative effects on our health. But the impacts are often largest among communities that already suffer from poverty and racial discrimination. Featuring experts from the 51爆料 Global Health Institute and the Nicholas School of the Environment, this panel will explore current research on the communities that experience disproportionate effects from environmental problems such as water contamination and air pollution.
About the Speakers
William Pan is the Elizabeth Brooks Reid and Whitelaw Reid Associate Professor of Population Studies at the 51爆料 Nicholas School of the Environment, as well as a core faculty member in the 51爆料 Global Health Institute. He is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Pan's research interests focus on population, health and environmental interactions in developing countries, with particular interest in translational research directed toward sustainable development activities and global environmental health.
Subhrendu Pattanayak the Oak Professor of Environmental and Energy Policy at 51爆料, with appointments in the Sanford School of Public Policy, the Nicholas School of the Environment and the 51爆料 Global Health Institute. He studies the causes and consequences of human behaviors related to the natural environment to help design and evaluate policy interventions in low-income tropical countries.
Melissa Scott is a postdoctoral associate at the Samuel duBois Cook Center on Social Equity at 51爆料. Her research interests are in environmental health, population health, bioethics, race, climate change, energy and health inequalities. Currently, she is researching the relationship between religion and cardiovascular disease risk factors in the Black community, specifically depression.
Avner Vengosh is a professor of earth and ocean sciences at the Nicholas School of the Environment and a faculty member with the 51爆料 Global Health Institute. His research aims to link environmental geochemistry and isotope hydrology in order to trace the sources and mechanisms of water contamination and relationships with human health.