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Climate Change: Our Health in the Balance

Goal: To bring together experts in environmental and health sciences to examine the connection between climate change and the health of our nation today and raise awareness of the very real consequences of climate change on the health of our communities, our families and our children.

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Speaker

 

Title

Topic

Time

David Tollerud, MD, MPH

 

Facilitator

Chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

School of Public Health and Information Sciences

University of Louisville

Welcome & Format

 

1:00 – 1:10

Bob Jacobs, PhD

 

 

 

Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

School of Public Health and Information Sciences

University of Louisville

The risks climate change poses for the public's health

1:10 – 1:25

Keith Mountain

Keith R. Mountain, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair of Geography and Geosciences
University of Louisville
krmoun01@louisville.edu
Phone: 852-2692 

The evidence for climate change, briefly global and   then focused on Louisville

1:25 – 1:45

Questions and Discussion (Break)

1:45 – 2:00

 

Margaret Carreiro, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Biology
University of Louisville
M.Carreiro@louisville.edu
502-852-2093

The impact of climate change on urban ecology (i.e habitat) and how that may relate to health outcomes

2:00 – 2:15

Sarah Lynn Cunningham, PE

Environmental Consultant

502-238-3210

 

info@louisvillecan.org

The public/community initiatives that illustrate Louisville's response to climate change

2:15 – 2:30

Art Williams

Director, Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District (APCD)

 

art.williams@louisvilleky.gov
 

The international response and then focus on what Louisville is doing regarding climate change.

2:30 – 2:45

Questions and Discussion

 

2:45 – 3:00

David Tollerud, MD, MPH

 

 

Closing

3:00

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