April 25
Occupational Safety & Health Seminar
Please join this special double OSH seminar with two presenters and topics:
Topic 1: Ambient PM2.5 air pollution and colorectal cancer incidence in wildfire-impacted areas in the United States
Presenter: Nick Falkenberg, SM candidate in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the association between air pollution and colorectal cancer incidence.
- Explain whether the association between air pollution and colorectal cancer incidence differs by wildfire exposure.
Topic 2: Indoor environmental exposures: Clustering within and between environmental justice communities in Greater Boston
Presenter: Caroline Sarpy, BS, SM candidate in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to
- Describe contexts (such as social, economic and historical) that inform risk factors for indoor hazard conditions in Boston EJ communities.
- Explain indoor housing hazards risk factors in the greater Boston EJ communities.
- Discuss the geographic distribution of indoor hazard risk factors in the greater Boston EJ communities.
- Discuss the future of improving indoor housing in a changing funding environment.
Location: Kresge 502 and Online via Zoom.
Register: Click here to register to attend via Zoom.