Planning Committee
Robert 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
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 Health Disparities Research Center of Excellence, Meharry Medical College
Patricia Matthews-Juarez, PhD, Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine and Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives & Innovation, Office of the President
Meharry Medical College
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
Speakers (in order of presentation)
Matthew W. Gillman, MD, SM, Director, Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program
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
Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, All of US Research Program at the National Institutes of Health
Darryl B. Hood, PhD, Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University
Cathrine Hoyo, PhD, Professor and Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, NC State University
James E. K. Hildreth, PhD, MD, President and CEO, Meharry Medical College
Robert 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
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, MPH, Executive Director, Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN)
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
Chandra L. Jackson, PhD, MS, Earl Stadtman Investigator, Social and Environmental Determinants of
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
Kimberly Ann Gray, PhD, Program Director, Children’s Environmental Health, Population Health Branch, Division of Extramural Research and Training, National Institute of Environmental Health
Cavin Ward-Caviness, PhD, Senior Computational Biologist, Public Health and Integrated Toxicology Division, US Environmental Protection Agency
Cecilia S. Alcala, PhD, MPH, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Wansoo Im, PhD, Associate Professor/Director, Department of Family and Community Medicine, National Community Mapping Institute, Meharry Medical College
Itai Kloog, PhD, Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev