Climate Changes Health: Ensuring Environmental Justice Underlies Public Health's Climate Change Work

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Saturday November 4, 2017 - Sunday November 5, 2017
      9:00 am - 3:59 pm
  • Location: Spelman College
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  • URL: Registration Information
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  • Fee(s):
    N/A
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Summaries

Summary Sentence: A Pre-Conference Summit of the APHA Environment Section

Full Summary: This pre-conference workshop is an opportunity for approximately 100 leading EJ leaders and public health practitioners, scholars, and students to advance work towards climate justice. The day will include: 1) storytelling from environmental justice (EJ) leaders about lessons learned in their climate change work, 2) lightning talks to share data, tools, approaches, and resources, 3) facilitated roundtable networking to inform local climate planning efforts in ways that prioritize EJ issues, and 4) a reception and poster session to end the day.

This pre-conference workshop is an opportunity for approximately 100 leading EJ leaders and public health practitioners, scholars, and students to advance work towards climate justice. The day will include: 1) storytelling from environmental justice (EJ) leaders about lessons learned in their climate change work, 2) lightning talks to share data, tools, approaches, and resources, 3) facilitated roundtable networking to inform local climate planning efforts in ways that prioritize EJ issues, and 4) a reception and poster session to end the day.

Additional Information

In Campus Calendar
Yes
Groups

Serve-Learn-Sustain

Invited Audience
Faculty/Staff, Public, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Categories
Seminar/Lecture/Colloquium, Training/Workshop
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Status
  • Created By: drickles3
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Aug 29, 2017 - 3:10pm
  • Last Updated: Sep 21, 2017 - 9:55am