2017 Children’s Environmental Health Symposium
Environmental Justice and Children
AGENDA
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and Overview of Symposium
Lauren Zeise, PhD, Director, OEHHA
9:15 – 9:50 The Haves, The Have-nots, and the Health of Everyone: Connections Between Equity and Sustainability
Presenter: Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH, Professor, UC Berkeley
9:50 – 10:20 Neuroendocrine Basis of Stress
Presenter: Brian Trainor, PhD, Professor, UC Davis
10:20 – 10:35 Break
10:35 – 11:05 Allostatic Load, Early Development and Lifelong Impacts
Presenter: Camelia Hostinar, PhD, Assistant Professor, UC Davis
11:05 – 11:40 Income and Social Stressors Modify Impacts of Pesticides in Children
Presenter: Brenda Eskenazi, PhD, Jennifer and Brian Maxwell Professor of Maternal and Child Health and Epidemiology, UC Berkeley
11:40 – 12:00 PANEL – Panelists: All morning speakers
Moderator: Mark Miller, MD, MPH, Director, Children’s Environmental Health Center, OEHHA
12:00 – 1:15 Lunch
1:15 – 1:55 Keynote: Environmental Justice: Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation
Presenter: Dr. Gail Christopher, DN, Senior Advisor and Vice President for Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation, W. K. Kellogg Foundation
1:55 - 2:30 SES, Family Processes and Child Development: Intervention Effects
Presenter: Lia Fernald, PhD, Professor, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
2:30-3:05 Early Life Social and Environmental Influences of Lifelong Health: Risk and Resilience
Presenter: Rosalind Wright, MD, MPH, Dean for Translational Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NYC
3:05 – 3:20 Break
3:20 – 3:50 CalEnviroScreen: Mining for Data on Children, Poverty, and Other Social and Environmental Factors
Presenter: Laura August, MPH, Research Scientist, OEHHA
3:50 – 4:20 PANEL – Panelists: All afternoon speakers plus:
Arsenio Mataka, JD, Assistant Secretary for Environmental Justice and Tribal Affairs, CalEPA
Gina Solomon, MD, MPH, Deputy Secretary for Science and Health, CalEPA
Moderator: Lauren Zeise, PhD, Director, OEHHA
4:20 – 4:30 Wrap-up and Adjourn