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“From the Ground Up: Community Partnerships Breaking with the History of Lead Science”
With Juan Manuel Rubio (UC Riverside), Maya Cheav and Patricia Jovel (PJ) Flores (Orange County Environmental Justice).
Tue Dec 03 2024
“Early Life Lead Exposure: Mitigating Harm After Exposure”
With Olivia Halabicky, MSc, PhD, RN (Assistant Research Scientist, School of Nursing, University of Michigan)
Tue Nov 19 2024
“Plastics, Policy and Public Health”
With the Ecology Center
Tue Nov 12 2024
Free Workshop on Cytosine Modifications
Fri Nov 08 2024
“Nanoplastics and Human Health”
With Matthew J Campen, PhD, MSPH (Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of New Mexico)
Wed Nov 06 2024
“School Buses and Children's Health”
With Meredith Pedde, PhD, MPH, MPP (Assistant Research Scientist, Epidemiology)
Tue Oct 22 2024
“The Connection Between Gentrification & Public Health in Detroit”
With Adrianna Spindle-Jackson (Boston University); Angie Reyes (Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation); Moderated by Natalie Sampson (University of Michigan Dearborn).
Tue Oct 08 2024
“Environmental chemicals and midlife women’s health: an environmental reproductive justice lens”
With Tamarra James-Todd, PhD ( Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Thu Sep 26 2024
“Fluoride exposure, neurodevelopment and public health implications”
With Ashley Malin, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of Florida Department of Epidemiology)
Tue Sep 24 2024
“Environmental Impacts on Birth Outcomes in Michigan”
Tue Sep 17 2024
“What is the Integrated Health Sciences Core of M-LEEaD and what can it do for you?”
Tue Sep 10 2024
“Energy, Housing & Health”
With Zachary Rowe (Friends of Parkside, Detroit), Marie O’Neill (UM School of Public Health), Carina Gronlund (UM Institute for Social Research).
Tue Apr 02 2024
“Associations between PFAS perceptions & consumer behaviors across Michigan”
With Andrew Hoover (MS Candidate, Environmental Health Sciences, UM School of Public Health)
Tue Mar 26 2024
“Automating Machine Learning for the Environmental Health Sciences”
With Jason Moore, PhD (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA)
Mon Mar 18 2024
“Connecting Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Environmental Health Science Research”
With Zhenke Wu, PhD (Associate Professor, Biostatistics), Liyue Shen, PhD (Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science), and Qing Qu, PhD (Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science)
Mon Mar 18 2024
“Centering Health in Home Energy Improvements and Repair for Climate Change Adaptation and Health Equity”
Tue Mar 05 2024
“Environmental Exposures and Menstrual Cycle Characteristics”
With Shruthi Mahalingaiah, MD, MS (Assistant Professor of Environmental Reproductive and Women’s Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Tue Feb 06 2024
“What’s all that dust? The need for fugitive dust controls”
With Stuart Batterman (University of Michigan, Environmental Health Sciences) and Simone Sagovac (Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision). Moderated by Natalie Sampson (University of Michigan Dearborn).
Tue Jan 30 2024
“Making Healthy Environments a Legal Right in Michigan: Legislation or Green Amendment”
With Laprisha Berry-Daniels (Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice) and Nick Schroek (University of Detroit Mercy). Moderated by Natalie Sampson (University of Michigan Dearborn).
Tue Dec 12 2023
“Use of High-Resolution Metabolomics to Measure Internal Exposures & Investigate the Molecular Mechanisms Accounting for the Complex Health Responses to Ubiquitous Environmental Pollutants”
With Donghai Liang, PhD (Assistant Professor, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health)
Tue Nov 21 2023
“Arsenic and Aging: Epigenetic damage over a lifetime and beyond”
With Chris Faulk, PhD (Associate Professor, University of Minnesota)
Tue Nov 07 2023
“Navigating Lead Contamination in Neighborhoods”
With Rachel Marquez (Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation) and Eri Saikawa (Emory University). Moderated by Natalie Sampson (University of Michigan Dearborn).
Tue Oct 24 2023
“Climate, Environment & Health Legislative Forum”
With Elizabeth A. Mack PhD (Michigan State University); Devon Payne-Sturges, PhD (University of Maryland); Stuart Batterman PhD (University of Michigan); Carina Gronlund PhD (University of Michigan)
Tue Sep 19 2023
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M-LEEaD’s 2023 Summer Omics and Data Science Symposium
With Justin Colacino, PhD, MPH, MA; Rachel Morgan, PhD, MPH; Bambarendage (Pini) Perera, PhD; Kai Wang, PhD; and Yue Zhao, PhD, MS
Thu Jul 20 2023
“Understanding NAAQS (Non-)Attainment: Science, Policy, & Implications for Environmental Justice”
With Stuart Batterman (University of Michigan), Nick Leonard (Great Lakes Environmental Law Center) and Simone Sagovac (Southwest Detroit Community Benefits Coalition). Moderated by Natalie Sampson (University of Michigan, Dearborn).
Tue Apr 18 2023
“1,000 Chemicals and their Combined Hormonal Bioactivities in Silicone Wristband Samplers”
With Anna Young, PhD, MS, BA (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Tue Apr 04 2023
“It’s an Emergency! What are we doing about it? Environmental Justice and Emergency Response in Detroit”
With Keynote Speaker Jacqueline Patterson, MSW, MPH (Chisholm Legacy Project) and a panel of community voices: Ricky Ackerman, Tammara Howard, Theresa Landrum, Vincent Martin, Lula Odom.
Wed Mar 29 2023
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“Exploring early origins of cognitive decline: The St. Louis Baby Teeth Study”
With Marc Weisskopf, PhD, ScD (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Thu Mar 23 2023
“Advancing Environmental Health and Justice: A Call for Assessment and Oversight of Health Care Waste”
With Vincent Martin (V Martin Environmental Justice LLC), Omega Wilson (West End Revitalization Assoc., NC) and Denise Patel (NYC human rights and environmental activist). Moderated by Natalie Sampson (University of Michigan, Dearborn)
Tue Feb 21 2023
“Using Community-based Participatory Research to Address Immigrant Latinx Workers’ Health & Safety”
With Deysi Flores (Make the Road), Isabel Cuervo (City University of New York) and Sherry Baron (City University of New York); Moderator: Amy Schulz (University of Michigan).
Tue Jan 31 2023
“Developmental Programming: preconceptional and gestational exposure of sheep to a real-life environmental chemical mixture alters maternal metabolome in a fetal sex-specific manner”
With Soundara Viveka Thangaraj, PhD (University of Michigan)
Tue Jan 17 2023
“Re-examining Environmental Epigenetics in Epidemiology: The Case of DNA Methylation & Hydroxymethylation”
With Bek Petroff, PhD (University of Michigan)
Tue Dec 06 2022
“Air Pollution Research to Inform Public Health Policy and Action”
With Sara Adar, ScD, MHS (University of Michigan)
Tue Nov 15 2022
“Wildfire Smoke Exposure and Adverse Health Outcomes (beyond the lungs)”
With Luke Montrose (Colorado State University)
Tue Nov 01 2022
“Causal Inference in Air Quality Regulation: An Overview and Topics in Statistical Methodology”
With Corwin Zigler, PhD (University of Texas, Austin)
Mon Oct 24 2022
“Water and Public Health: Inequity and Affordability”
With Monica-Lewis Patrick (We the People of Detroit), Mary Grant (Food & Water Watch) and Dr. Marcela González Rivas (University of Pittsburgh); Moderated by Amy Schulz (University of Michigan)
Tue Oct 11 2022
“The interplay of maternal diet with environmental exposures in pregnancy”
With Rita S. Strakovsky, PhD, RD (Michigan State University)
Tue Oct 04 2022
M-LEEaD Member Kickoff Meeting
Thu Sep 29 2022
“PBBs in Michigan: Empowering an Exposed Community”
With Bonnie Havlicek, RN (PBB Advisory Board) and Michele Marcus, PhD, MPH (Emory University); Moderated by Amy Schulz (University of Michigan)
Tue Sep 27 2022
“Introducing M-LEEaD: What is the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease and what can it do for me?”
With Dana Dolinoy, PhD; Marie S. O’Neill, PhD; Sung Kyun Park, ScD, MPH; Lu Wang, PhD; Daniel S. McConnell, PhD; Amy Jo Schulz, PhD; and Zhongzhe Ouyang
Tue Sep 13 2022
“Environmental Injustice in Dearborn’s Southend”
With Samra'a Luqman (Environmental activist from the Southend of Dearborn) and Zeina Reda (Student, University of Michigan). Moderated by Natalie Sampson (University of Michigan, Dearborn)
Tue Apr 05 2022
“Operationalizing the exposome through chemical surveillance and bioeffect monitoring with high-resolution mass spectrometry”
With Douglas Walker, PhD
Tue Mar 22 2022
“Making TSCA Work: Demystifying the Risk Assessment Process”
With Regina Strong, Patricia Koman, Gary Ginsberg, Wendy Heiger-Bernays and Chanese Forté
Tue Mar 08 2022
“Activities & Experiences of the Climate Hazards, Housing, and Health (CHHH) Community-Academic Partnership”
With Carina Gronlund (University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability) and Zachary Rowe (Friends of Parkside); Moderated by Marie O’Neill (School of Public Health, University of Michigan)
Tue Feb 22 2022
“Long-term Air Pollution and Incident Dementia in U.S.”
With Liuhua Shi, ScD
Tue Feb 08 2022
“Advancing Climate Justice and Environmental Health: People-centered approaches to Transformational Research”
With Jalonne L. White-Newsome, MS, PhD
Tue Jan 18 2022
“Community and Research Perspectives on Air Quality”
With Raquel Garcia (Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision), Kathryn Savoie (Ecology Center), J. Tim Dvonch (School of Public Health, University of Michigan). Moderated by Amy Schulz (School of Public Health, University of Michigan)
Tue Nov 30 2021
“Sustaining a Healthy Nail Salon Workforce in Michigan”
With Aurora Le, PhD, MPH, CPH, CSP (School of Public Health, University of Michigan) and Marie-Anne Rosemberg, PhD, MN, RN, FAAOHN (School of Nursing, University of Michigan)
Tue Nov 23 2021
“Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Women’s Reproductive Health: Findings from The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation”
With Ning Ding, PhD, MPH (School of Public Health, University of Michigan)
Tue Nov 09 2021
“How close and how much? Linking health outcomes to spatial distributions of built environment features”
With Veronica Berrocal
Wed Nov 03 2021
“Bayesian models for mercury effects on multiple outcomes in the Seychelles Child Development Study”
With Sally W. Thurston
Tue Nov 02 2021
“Methods for estimating time-varying exposures during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes”
With Howard H. Chang
Mon Nov 01 2021
“The Trichloroethylene Metabolite S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-L-cysteine Suppresses Inflammatory Pathways in a Macrophage Cell Model: Implications for Immunosuppression During Pregnancy”
With Sean Harris, PhD
Tue Oct 26 2021
“Identification of occupations susceptible to high exposure and risk associated with multiple toxicants: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2014”
With Vy Kim Nguyen, PhD
Tue Oct 12 2021
“Germline Epigenetic Programming and Paternal Contributions to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs): Questioning the Prevailing Paradigm”
With Michael Golding, PhD
Tue Sep 28 2021
“Neighborhood Greening for Stormwater Management: What Matters for Residents”
With Joan Nassauer (University of Michigan), Natalie Sampson (University of Michigan), Barb Matney (Warrendale Community Organization) and Kenyetta Campbell (Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance)
Tue Sep 28 2021
“Building Toward Flooding Resilience: Perspectives from the Field”
With Ricky Ackerman (Eastside Community Network), Erma Leaphart (Sierra Club), and Peter Larson (Lecturer, Epidemiology & Researcher, Institute for Social Research; University of Michigan); Moderator: Angie Reyes (Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation)
Tue Sep 21 2021
“No Defense: The U.S. Military’s War on Water”
Thu Aug 19 2021
“Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality and Health in Detroit”
With Amy Schulz (University of Michigan); Stuart Batterman (University of Michigan); Angela Reyes (Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation)
Tue Apr 20 2021
“Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice”
With Donele Wilkins, CEO, Green Door Initiative and Kathryn Savoie, Detroit Community Health Director, Ecology Center
Tue Apr 13 2021
“Climate Hazards, Housing and Health in Detroit”
With Marie O’Neill University of Michigan School of Public Health); Zachary Rowe (Friends of Parkside)
Tue Mar 30 2021
“Water and Health”
With Monica Lewis-Patrick (We the People of Detroit); Nadia Gaber (We the People of Detroit); Emily Kutil (Lawrence Technological University)
Tue Mar 23 2021
“TSCA @5 Years: Opportunities to Act with Foresight”
With Sandra Svoboda (“The Forever Chemicals” co-producer and Great Lakes Now Program Director), Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH (Professor, Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences, UCSF), Justin Onwenu (Environmental Justice Organizer, Sierra Club), Patricia Koman, MPP, PhD (Research Investigator, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan); welcoming remarks from Gilbert S. Omenn, MD, PhD (Harold T. Shapiro Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Health, UM).
Tue Mar 16 2021
“Energy Equity: Health Impact Assessment of Detroit Energy's Integrated Resource Plan”
With Amy Schulz (University of Michigan); Michelle Martinez (Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition); Carina Gronlund (University of Michigan School of Public Health); Tony Reames (University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability)
Tue Mar 09 2021
“In Support with Communities: Early Career Equity and Environmental Health Perspectives”
With Jamaji C Nwanaji-Enwerem, PhD
Tue Mar 02 2021
“Innovations in Relating Real Life Exposures to Chemicals and Chemical Mixtures to Health Outcomes”
With Dr. Andreas Kortenkamp, Brunel University; Dr. Jodi Flaws, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Dr. Laura Vandenberg, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Dr. Paul Fowler, University of Aberdeen; Dr. Jyotsna Jagai, University of Illinois at Chicago; Dr. Jennifer McPartland, Environmental Defense Fund; Dr. Natalie Sampson, University of Michigan; Dr. Zorimar Rivera-Núñez, Rutgers University
Fri Feb 12 2021
“Community Priorities + Translation + Partnership + Environmental Justice”
Tue Jan 26 2021
“The Impact of COVID-19 on Service Workers”
With Marie-Anne Rosemberg (UM School of Nursing)
Tue Nov 24 2020
“Of Moms and Microbes: Pregnancy and the Microbiome”
With Kimberly McKee, PhD (Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, UM Medical School)
Tue Nov 10 2020
“A Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Prediction Model to Inform County-level COVID-19 Risks in the USA”
With Peter Song (UM SPH)
Fri Oct 23 2020
“Environmental Cadmium, Mortality from Influenza and Pneumonia in U.S. Adults”
With Sung Kyun Park (UM SPH)
Thu Oct 22 2020
“COVID-19 Treatment and Outcomes: Registries and Real-World Evidence”
With Emily Somers (UM Med School Int Med-Rheumatology)
Wed Oct 21 2020
“Learning from COVID-19 Data in Wuhan, USA, and the World on Transmission, Interventions, and Infection”
With Xihong Lin (Harvard)
Tue Oct 20 2020
“COVID-19 and Racial/Ethnic Disparities: Assessing Treatments Effects in Hospitalized Patients from Underrepresented Minority Groups”
With Yanxun Xu (Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Univ)
Mon Oct 19 2020
“A Virtual Event: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Exposure, Toxicity, and Policy”
With Elsie Sunderland, PhD (Harvard); Jamie DeWitt, PhD (Eastern Carolina University); Steve Sliver, Michigan PFAS Action Response Team (MPART), Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE).
Wed Oct 07 2020
“Wearable Microsystem for Direct Measurement of Multi-VOC (Worker) Exposures”
With Ted Zellers (UM SPH EHS)
Tue Oct 06 2020
Micro-randomized Trials in Mobile Health
With Zhenke Wu, PhD (Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Research Assistant Professor, Michigan Institute of Data Sciences (MIDAS))
Tue Sep 22 2020
“What is the Integrated Health Sciences Core and What Can It Do For Me?”
With Marie O’Neill, PhD (Professor, Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology), Daniel McConnell, PhD (Director, Central Ligand Assay Satellite Services (CLASS) laboratory), Lu Wang, PhD (Professor, Biostatistics ), Trish Koman, PhD (Research Investigator, Environmental Health Sciences), Sung Kyun Park, ScD (Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology)
Tue Sep 08 2020
“Exposomics and Precision Medicine: Everything that Rises Must Converge”
With Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH
Mon Aug 10 2020
“Transposable elements and epigenome evolution”
With Ting Wang, PhD
Mon Jul 27 2020
“Implications of human microbiome research for epidemiology and public health”
With Betsy Foxman, PhD
Tue Jun 30 2020
“Cooked: Survival by Zipcode”
With Jalonne White-Newsome, Senior Program Officer, Kresge Foundation; Trish Koman, Research Investigator, University of Michigan, School of Public Health; and Justin Owenu, Environmental Justice Organizer, Sierra Club; Donele Wilkins, President/CEO, Green Door Initiative.
Thu Jun 11 2020
“Assessing the Health Impacts of DTE’s 15-Year Energy Plan”
With Judith Helfand, Director/Producer of COOKED; Jalonne White-Newsome, Senior Program Officer, Kresge Foundation; Trish Koman, Research Investigator, University of Michigan, School of Public Health; and Justin Owenu, Environmental Justice Organizer, Sierra Club. The panel will be moderated by Donele Wilkins, President/CEO, Green Door Initiative.
Wed May 27 2020
“Climate Change and Health: Readiness and Resilience”
With Renee N. Salas, MD, MPH, MS
Thu Mar 12 2020
“From PBB to PFAS: Research and Action to Address Michigan’s Large Scale Chemical Contaminations”
Thu Feb 20 2020
“Experimental and Clinical Findings of Potential EDC Exposure”
With Kenneth Korach, PhD
Wed Feb 05 2020
“In Utero Exposures to E-cigarettes: implications for childhood obesity”
With Stephania Cormier, PhD
Thu Jan 30 2020
“Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) DataSifter: a statistical technique to protect research participant privacy while enabling data sharing”
With Ivo D. Dinov, PhD, MS
Tue Dec 03 2019
“PFAS in MICHIGAN: the state of Michigan's investigations and response”
With Betsy Wasilevich, PhD, MPH
Tue Nov 19 2019
“57 varieties of regression, and some updates”
With Rod Little, PhD
Tue Oct 29 2019
“Prediction Error and Model Evaluation for Space-Time Downscaling: Case Studies in Air Pollution during Wildfires”
With Donatello Telesca, PhD.
Tue Oct 22 2019
“Health, Nature and Our Built Environment: Change through Radical Collaborations”
With Jack Spengler PhD
Wed Oct 02 2019
“Health & Household-Related Benefits of Weatherizing Low-Income Homes & Affordable Multifamily Buildings”
With Bruce Tonn, PhD
Tue Sep 10 2019
“Genomics: The Michigan Genomics Initiative: An In-House Integrated Data Frame to Conduct Precision Health Queries”
With Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan
Tue Jul 23 2019
“Adductomics: Strategies and approaches for human biomonitoring of environmental and dietary carcinogens”
With Dr. Robert Turesky, University of Minnesota
Tue Jul 09 2019
“Making Your First Research Team a Success: Strategies and Pitfalls”
Thu May 09 2019
“Exposed! Pathways from Normal to Extreme in Exposure Science”
With Stuart Batterman, PhD
Tue Apr 02 2019
“Community Academic Collaboration on Drinking Water Contamination by Fluorinated Compounds”
With Jane Hoppin, ScD (N Carolina State U) and Kemp Burdette (Cape Fear River Watch)
Tue Mar 12 2019
“Climate Change and Health: What the Science Says and What We Can Do”
With John Balbus, MD, MPH, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Kim Knowlton, DrPH Natural Resources Defense Council & Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Mon Mar 11 2019
“Role of environmental exposures in childhood obesity and cardiovascular risks, including assessment of economic cost burden”
With Leonardo Trasande, MD, MPP
Mon Feb 25 2019
“Design Matters: the Pros and Cons of Longitudinal versus Cross-Sectional Designs”
With Thomas Braun, PhD
Tue Feb 19 2019
“PFAS: Evidence of Residential Segregation and Non-Linear Dose-Responses”
With Sung Kyun Park, MPH, ScD
Tue Feb 05 2019
“Multiple Perspectives on Multiple Comparisons”
With Roderick Little, PhD
Tue Jan 29 2019
“Linking a dose-response model to observed infection to describe spatial-temporal patterns in a Q fever outbreak”
With Lance Waller, PhD
Tue Jan 22 2019
“Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Webinar”
With Rick Rediske, PhD (Grand Valley State University), Detlef Knappe, PhD (North Carolina State University) and Rita Loch-Caruso, PhD (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Wed May 16 2018
“Using Systematic Review to Evaluate Population Level-Dose Toxicity from Endocrine Active Chemicals”
Tue Apr 10 2018