COVID-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic the need for science-based solutions has never been more evident. This ongoing webinar series is intended to share the most current evidence-based science on COVID-19 and the relevant environmental health research that promotes individual and collective health. Please join us and sign up for our newsletter to receive updates.
Topic one: Disinfecting, Cleaning, and Best Practices for Protecting Your Family During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Disinfecting, Cleaning, and Best Practices for Protecting Your Family During the COVID19 Pandemic
May 19, 2020
Featured Speakers:
- Stephanie Holm, MD, Co-Director of the Western States PEHSU
- Karen Wang, PhD, is CHE’s Director and is the founder of Because Health, an environmental health education campaign for millennials
Topic Two: Safer Green Cleaning, Sanitizing, and Disinfection in Child Care Facilities and Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic
June 30, 2020.
Featured Speakers:
- Stephanie Holm, MD, Co-Director of the Western States PEHSU
- Vickie Leonard, RN, FNP, PhD, Child Care Health Consultant and head of PEHSU’s Environmental Health in Early Care and Education Project
Topic Three: Improving Water Quality in Schools and Childcare Facilities During COVID-19
Improving Water Quality in Schools and Childcare Facilities During COVID-19
July 5, 2020.
Featured Speakers:
- Nancy G. Love, PhD, the Borchardt and Glysson Collegiate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University Michigan, and an adjunct Professor at the Institute of Biotechnology at Addis Ababa University
- Elin Warn Betanzo, MS, founder of Safe Water Engineering LLC
Topic Four: Pulmonary Health, ARDS, COVID-19 and Air Pollution
Pulmonary Health, ARDS, COVID-19 and Air Pollution: Connecting the Science
Featured Speakers:
- John R. Balmes, MD, Professor of Medicine at UCSF and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health at UC Berkeley
- Jongeun Rhee, ScD, MS, postdoctoral fellow, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch (OEEB), Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Xiao Wu, MS, LLB, PhD candidate, Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University
Topic Five: Indoor Air Quality in Schools and Childcare Facilities
Indoor Air Quality in Schools and Childcare Facilities During COVID-19
Featured Speakers:
- Shelly L. Miller, PhD, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and faculty in the Environmental Engineering Program at the University of Colorado Boulder
- Jianshun “Jensen” Zhang, PhD, Professor and Director of Building Energy and Environmental Systems Laboratory (BEESL), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Syracuse University (SU), New York and a Visiting Professor of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Nanjing University, China
Topic Six: Delta and Reducing Airborne Transmission in Schools
Delta and Reducing Airborne Transmission in Schools
Thursday, October 7 from 9-10am PDT/12-1pm EDT
- Kimberly A. Prather, PhD, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry and Distinguished Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
- Dustin Poppendieck, PhD, Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Jim Rosenthal, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Air Relief Technologies, Inc., Tex-Air Filters, Allergy Clean Environments and Allergy, Air & More
