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The LSU SRP’s co-sponsorship of the workshop was led by the LSU SRP Research Experience and Training Coordination Core (RETCC).
The full-day workshop aimed to introduce the idea of thinking strategically about communication in the context of toxicology, offer tools to help with multiple aspects of science communication, and give trainees the opportunity to practice their science communication skills.
Read more about this collaborative effort in the article here: https://www.lsu.edu/srp/news/2024/04-scicomm-workshop.php
The spotlight is on Fox Foley who is an LSU SRP trainee and PhD candidate in the LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy. Their research investigates solar-simulated irradiation’s effects on transition metal oxides to understand and potentially remediate EPFRs production.
Dive into the Q&A session with Fox Foley here: https://www.lsu.edu/srp/news/2024/04-foley-trainee-spotlight.php
Our colleagues from Children’s Health & Environment Program (CHEP) and the LSU Superfund Research Program recently received the prestigious NHMRC Ideas Grant for their project on understanding the health effects from bushfire smoke.
The project, “Providing Evidence to Guide Public Health Messages during Bushfire Smoke Events,” focuses on understanding the dangerous health effects of smoke from bushfires. Major bushfire/wildfire events are increasing worldwide, and both prescribed burning and wildfires produce toxic smoke that is a major health threat to people in surrounding areas.
Read all about it in the article here: https://www.lsu.edu/srp/news/2024/04-ideas-grant.php
From the Faculty of Human and Social Development, Professors Heather Castleden and Hōkūlani Aikau bring you conversations with Indigenous artists, activists, and academics who are engaging in daily acts of asserting self-determination to broad trans-Indigenous collective action for planetary health.
Please scan the QR code below to access the Podcast: EP1: Welcome to the Indigenous Planetary Health.
The LSU Superfund Research Program is a research program funded by NIEHS. Discover their groundbreaking work in the video below.
The 2024 Central and Eastern European Conference on Health and the Environment (CEECHE) will be held July 15-19 in Thessaloniki, Greece, at Aristotle University. CEECHE 2024 is organized around the theme “Seeking Solutions for Environmental Exposures and Disease Risks.”
Abstract Submission is open now through to 15 April 2024
https://tinyurl.com/CEECHE2024ABSTRACT
Registration and abstract submission for the 18th International Congress on Combustion By-Products and Their Health Effects (PIC2024) will open in two weeks! Please mark your calendars.
This year, PIC2024 will be held in Durham, NC, USA on the Duke University campus, May 19-22nd, 2024. The main theme of PIC2024 is “Fire Emissions & Community Impacts at the Wildland Urban Interface and Disaster Sites”.
The Congress is held every two years with the goal to provide an international, multidisciplinary forum to discuss topics on the origins, fate, and health effects of combustion. Combustion is defined in a wide sense, including all forms of thermal treatment of fuel materials and hazardous substances. This field has gained significant relevance due to the increasing need for mechanistic, diagnostic, and analytical answers to complex problems concerning exposure to combustion-derived hazardous air pollutants.
More information can be found at the Congress website: PIC2024. We have a great line-up of plenary speakers that will address the theme of this meeting.
We look forward to seeing you at PIC2024 in May of 2024.
On Nov. 21, Pennington Biomedical’s Dr. Stephania Cormier served as a panellist and invited speaker for the World Health City Forum in Incheon, South Korea. The forum was the first for the organization and featured panels and conversations on sustainability, financial security, and health factors for urban areas around the globe. Dr. Cormier was a panelist for the “Sustainable Futures in Smart Cities: Integrating Health, Environment, and Multi-Generational Equity Case Studies, Legislation and Policy Gaps” panel. As part of of her participation, she also toured the National Institute of Environmental Research, including the biorepository and the Climate Change Research Center and Global Environment Research Complex in Incheon.
Announcements
– ASF Summer Gathering 2022 Video
– Dr. Nicole Bates-Eamer recruited as ASF Postdoctoral Fellow
– Dr. Margo Greenwood appointed to Senate of Canada
– Elder Albert Marshall awarded Indspire Lifetime Achievement Award
– Dr. Ron Glass celebrates his UC-SC retirement
– Dr. Chad Walker begins the tenure-track at Dalhousie University
– Mr. Carlos Sánchez-Pimienta receives a 2023-2024 Trudeau Scholarship
Highlights
– ASF Co-Directors in Hawai’i, Australia, New Zealand, and Malaysia
– CIHR EHSI Final Gathering
– Project Updates
Upcoming Conferences
– CEPI Two-Eyed Seeing Conference
– Radical Reckoning: Imagining America
– International Association of Impact Assessment
The Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health 