January 22-24, 2024
Children’s Health, Environmental Justice and the Exposome
Location:
Cal Turner Family Center at Meharry Medical College
1011 21st Ave N, Nashville, TN 37208
All times are Central Standard Time
Day #1 – Monday, January 22, 2024
1:00 – 1:20
Welcome
Paul D. Juárez, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Family and Community Medicine and Director, Institute on Health Disparities, Equity and the Exposome, Meharry Medical College
Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH, Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, and Co-Director, Institute for Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Exposomics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS)
1:20 – 1:50
Exposomics and Child Health Outcomes: How Exposomics will Provide Solution-Oriented Research
Matthew W. Gillman, MD, SM, Director, Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program
1:50 – 2:20
The Exposome and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
Rosalind J. Wright, MD, MPH, Dean for Translational Biomedical Sciences, and Co-Director, Institute for Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Exposomics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
2:20 – 2:50
Diversifying the Biomedical Research Workforce and Reducing Health Disparities: a Statistician’s Synergistic Mission
Emma K. T. Benn, DrPH, MPH, Founding Director, Center for Scientific Diversity and Associate Professor, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
2:50 – 3:20
Break
3:20 – 3:50
Keynote: Exposomics and the All-of-Us Program — What’s Coming?
Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, All of US Research Program at the National Institutes of Health
3:50 – 4:20
Child Health International Perspectives
Aday E. Adetosoye, PhD, Vice President, Global Health Program Delivery Group, Management Sciences for Health
4:20 – 4:50
Application of an Exposomics Framework in Evaluating Outcomes in Environmental Justice Communities during the COVID-19 Syndemic in Columbus, OH
Darryl B. Hood, PhD, Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University
4:50 – 5:20
Aberrant Methylation at Imprint Control Regions and Obesity in Children
Cathrine Hoyo, PhD, Professor and Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, NC State University
Day #2 – Tuesday, January 23, 2024
8:00 – 9:00
Breakfast
9:00 – 9:15
Welcome
James E. K. Hildreth, PhD, MD, President and CEO, Meharry Medical College
9:15– 9:45
Environmental Justice Today
Robert D. Bullard, PhD, Director, Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice and Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy, Texas Southern University
9:45 – 10:15
Protective Policy Implications of Exposomics and Child Health
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, MPH, Executive Director, Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN)
10:15 – 10:35
Break
10:35 – 11:05
The Human Exposome Map – a Key Infrastructure Need in Child Health Research
Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH, Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, and Co-Director, Institute for Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Exposomics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
11:05 – 12:00
Panel Discussion: Path Forward for Exposomics and Environmental Justice
Matthew W. Gillman, MD, SM, Director, Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, MPH, Executive Director, Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN)
Robert D. Bullard, PhD, Director of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice and Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy at Texas Southern University
Cathrine Hoyo, PhD, Professor and Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, NC State University
Co-Moderators: Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH and Paul D. Juárez, PhD
12:00
Lunch
12:45
Poster Session
2:00 – 2:30
Health Disparities in Autism
Manish Arora, BDS, MPH, PhD, Edith J. Baerwald Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Co-Founder and CEO, LinusBio
2:30 – 3:00
Leveraging Exposomics to Understand and Address Sleep Health Disparities across the Life Course
Chandra L. Jackson, PhD, MS, Earl Stadtman Investigator, Social and Environmental Determinants of Health Equity, Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
3:00 – 3:30
Break
3:30 – 4:00
The CANDLE Study and its Approach to Characterizing Prenatal and Early Life Exposures
Kecia N. Carroll, MD, MPH, Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics; Professor of Pediatrics, and Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
4:00 – 4:30
President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children: A coordinated federal work plan to address early-life exposures to chemicals that impact children’s health
Kimberly Ann Gray, PhD, Program Director, Children’s Environmental Health, Population Health Branch, Division of Extramural Research and Training, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Aly Lorenz, MPH, Health Scientist, Office of Children’s Health Protection, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
6:00
Reception and Dinner
Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, 2100 West End Avenue
The 6pm reception will be held in the Ballroom Foyer, and the 7pm dinner will follow in the Symphony I & II Ballroom.
The Inaugural Robert D. Bullard Environmental Justice Award presented to:
Robert D. Bullard, PhD, Director, Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice and Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy, Texas Southern University
Day #3 – Wednesday, January 24, 2024
8:00 – 9:00
Breakfast
9:00 – 9:10
Welcome
9:10 – 9:40
Associations between Aging, Social Stress, and Air Pollution as Viewed Through Epidemiology and Toxicology
Cavin Ward-Caviness, PhD, Senior Computational Biologist, Public Health and Integrated Toxicology Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
9:40 – 10:10
Exposomics and Health Literacy
Cecilia S. Alcala, PhD, MPH, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
10:10 – 10:15
Poster Presentation Awards
10:15 – 10:40
Break
10:40 – 12:00
Concurrent Workshops
Workshop A: Empowering Communities using Community Mapping with Exposome Data
Wansoo Im, PhD, Associate Professor/Director, Department of Family and Community Medicine, National Community Mapping Institute, Meharry Medical College
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Workshop B: Introduction to GIS in Environmental Epidemiology and Exposomic Research
Itai Kloog, PhD, Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai