BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - ECPv6.11.2.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hsph.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T140000 DTSTAMP:20260608T034113 CREATED:20260526T184937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260602T182958Z UID:111360006013-1788958800-1788962400@hsph.harvard.edu SUMMARY:A world without lead exposure: Pursuing the path forward with Mary Jean Brown\, ScD DESCRIPTION:Home / Events\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEcoOpportunity Book Exchange\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Type \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Type \n\n\n\n From Around the School\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Mary Jean Brown\, ScD\, Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Brown will discuss “A world without lead exposure: Pursuing the path forward.” \n\n\n\nThis event will be held in person (HSPH Bldg. 1\, 1302) and via Zoom. Lunch and refreshments provided! Register here \n\n\n\nTrainee meeting for students and postdocs immediately following the seminar\, 2-2:30 pm\, in 1306A! Come in-person to discuss research interests\, career plans\, and funding opportunities. RSVP here! \n\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\n\nA recent World Bank Report ‘A World Without Lead: Paving the Path to a Healthy Productive Future’ describes the global lead poisoning crisis\, and its impacts on health\, the environment\, and human capital. The report offers a roadmap for eliminating exposure\, comprising strategic investments\, policy reforms and foundational public health practices like monitoring and surveillance that every country can use to address this crisis. \n\n\n\nRemoval of lead from gasoline reduced average blood lead levels globally but was not the only source of lead. Global lead consumption exceeded 12 million tons in 2022. Toxic emissions are routinely released from formal and informal lead mining\, smelting and recycling and contaminate adjacent communities.  Lead is found in a multitude of foodstuffs\, remedies\, low fire glazed pottery\, jewelry\, leaded residential paint and water pipes. One study estimated that 800 million children worldwide\, most living in low-middle income countries\, have blood lead levels known to affect learning\, behavior and later adult health. \n\n\n\nBut good news: fugitive emissions from lead mining and smelting can be controlled\, contaminated sites can be cleaned up\, and old lead mines can be permanently closed. Lead contamination of foodstuffs and leaded paint have been successfully regulated. Population-level blood lead surveillance\, together with studies of blood and environmental lead levels in areas with known lead contamination\, help countries and communities identify risks and monitor progress to eliminate the danger. And\, the costs of these interventions are far less than the costs of letting the exposure continue.  \n\n\n\nIn this seminar\, Dr. Brown will describe the current status of lead exposure with a focus on low and middle income countries\, the expected costs/benefits of eliminating exposure globally\, and the work that remains to be done. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nMary Jean Brown is on the faculty of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\, where she taught courses in public health practice. Dr. Brown co-authored A World Without Lead: Paving the Path to a Healthy\, Productive Future and works regularly with domestic and international public health agencies and non-governmental organizations such as the World Health Organization UNICEF\, and Human Rights Watch on issues related to health and housing\, including developing policies to eliminate childhood lead poisoning. She has published more than 150 peer reviewed scientific articles\, commentaries\, and policy documents and conducted epidemiological studies of housing interventions for lead\, asthma\, and injuries in the United States and internationally.  \n\n\n\nDr. Brown received a Doctor of Science degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2000.  She received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Boston College in 1982. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n Mary Jean Brown \n \n Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizers\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHarvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health\n\n\n\nDepartment of Environmental Health\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Unleash your potential at Harvard Chan School. \n In addition to our degree programs\, we offer highly targeted programs through our Advanced Learning Academy\, directed and taught by Harvard faculty. \n \n \n \n Degree Programs \n \n \n \n How to Apply \n \n \n \n Advanced Learning Academy URL:https://hsph.harvard.edu/events/a-world-without-lead-exposure-pursuing-the-path-forward-with-mary-jean-brown-scd/ LOCATION:HSPH\, Bldg. 1\, 1302 and Zoom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hsph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Mary-Jean-Brown-Lecture-Simple-e1779820991944.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T135000 DTSTAMP:20260608T034113 CREATED:20260515T003207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260515T003207Z UID:111360006009-1790600400-1790603400@hsph.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Monday Nutrition Seminar | What Can Exposomics Bring to Nutrition and Food Science? From the Food Exposome to Human Health DESCRIPTION:Home / Events\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEcoOpportunity Book Exchange\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTime \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Type \n\n\n\n From Around the School\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Peng Gao\, PhD\, MS\, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposomics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Gao’s talk—”What Can Exposomics Bring to Nutrition and Food Science? From the Food Exposome to Human Health”—will take place on September 28 at 1:00 p.m. ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required). \n\n\n\nThe Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID\, please click the “Register Today” button to fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building. \n\n\n\nSeminar speakers share their perspectives\, they do not speak for Harvard. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n Peng Gao \n \n Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposomics\, HSPH\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizers\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDepartment of Nutrition\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Unleash your potential at Harvard Chan School. \n In addition to our degree programs\, we offer highly targeted programs through our Advanced Learning Academy\, directed and taught by Harvard faculty. \n \n \n \n Degree Programs \n \n \n \n How to Apply \n \n \n \n Advanced Learning Academy URL:https://hsph.harvard.edu/nutrition/events/monday-nutrition-seminar-what-can-exposomics-bring-to-nutrition-and-food-science-from-the-food-exposome-to-human-health/ LOCATION:FXB G-13 & Zoom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hsph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/1200-x-675__Sept-28_PGao.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR