Why Data Are Not Enough To Solve Health Inequities: Environmental Injustice, Corporate Influence and Public Health

Date: 
October 7, 2020
Time: 
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Place: 
Zoom

 

Dr. Tracey Woodruff will discuss how industrial chemicals pollute air, water, food, and dust and will explore the science behind their contribution to chronic health conditions. She will illustrate how the burden of exposure disproportionately falls on vulnerable populations and contributes to health disparities, and elucidate the role of corporate influence on science in contributing to these conditions. She will discuss her experience in strategies and approaches to address these environmental injustices.

 

Speaker: Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences University of California, San Francisco

Zoom Meeting: https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/95044924835?pwd=aC9JMEtaTm5CckhyWmxDWEwyamRFdz09
Meeting ID: 950 4492 4835
Passcode: 215162
Event Type: 
Lecture