Marc Weisskopf speaks at MIT Picower Institute’s Spring Symposium
Marc Weisskopf, director of the Harvard Chan-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and co-director of the JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program, spoke on May 11 at the MIT Picower Institute’s Spring Symposium. Co-sponsored by the JPB Foundation, the symposium centered around Environmental and Social Determinants of Child Mental Health, and featured talks by neuroscientists, policy experts, physicians, educators and activists about how experiences and biology work together to affect how minds develop and what can be accomplished in helping people overcome early disadvantages. Dr. Weisskopf presented on “Environmental Epidemiology: Neurodevelopment and Multigenerational Exposures”; Research Associate Ran Rotem presented on “Environmental Epidemiology and Big Data: Using Electronic Medical Records to Explore Biological Mechanisms Linking Environmental Exposures and Autism.”
