Gaps in Health Equity During COVID-19
WHEN
Thursday, February 3, 2022
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (Pacific Time)
LOCATION
Online
Zoom
PRICE
Free
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Disinfectants in Licensed Childcare Settings and the Impacts to Priority Populations
A Speaker Series:
Toxicology and Societies
The Impacts of Chemicals in Our Lives
Brought to you in partnership with Western's Institute of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and WWU Alumni Association
Please join us for the next presentation in our series on Toxicology and Societies: The Impacts of Chemicals in our Lives. Dr. Lorelei Walker will present on the use and misuse of disinfectants in childcare centers.
In December of 2021, the WA State Department of Health (DOH) was awarded a 7-month CDC/ATSDR grant to combat the increasing overuse and misuse of disinfectants in licensed childcare centers. A decade of crippling state budget cuts, especially in environmental health, left 4,100 licensed centers without dedicated DOH support when COVID-19 hit. During this presentation, Dr. Walker will recount the nationwide effort to determine effective health-positive cleaning and disinfecting practices for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), resolve current barriers for priority populations, and realistic opportunities to close the state’s health equity gap.
This seminar series aims to help you better appreciate, understand, and evaluate the many ways that manufactured chemicals (more than 300,000) interact with all humans on Earth.
More information about the speaker series is available here.
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Dr. Lorelei E. Walker
Speaker
Dr. Lorelei E. Walker (she/her) is an experienced public health professional, community advocate, policymaker, labor leader, and science educator. Her interdisciplinary focus fuels community-centric action enabling systematic change for the greater good. Dr. Walker serves her community by participating on local nonprofit boards, participating in national community partnerships, launching a graduate course, shepherding young professional programs, advocating for environmental health, and bargaining ground-breaking policy for wage equity.
Click here to learn more about Dr. Walker.
Ruth Sofield
Co-Host
Ruth Sofield is a Professor of environmental toxicology and chemistry in the College of the Environment. She received her PhD and MS in Environmental Science and Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. Ruth’s research group focuses on the effects of water and air pollution. Their current projects include the aquatic toxicity of microplastic and tire wear particles, and the use of moss as a biomonitoring tool for particulate matter. Ruth is a member of the Puget Sound Partnership Science Panel and the President of the Pacific Northwest Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
Tracy Collier
Co-host
Tracy Collier received his PhD in Fisheries Sciences from the University of Washington. He has worked for over 45 years as a toxicologist, with more than 35 of those years spent at NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center, where he served as the director of a science division that employed up to 100 people, covering several disciplines, including environmental toxicology, analytical chemistry, harmful algal blooms, and watershed processes. He has over 175 scientific publications, and currently is an affiliate faculty at Western.
Upcoming Speaker
Date:
March 3, 2022. 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PT
Speaker:
Jackie Goodrich
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Topic:
Firefighter Cancer Cohort Study: PFAS Chemical Exposure
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