2024 - 2025 EHS Seminars

Date RIG Speaker Dept/Affiliation Presentation Title
April 4, 2024 MTT Eboni Neal Cochran


Megan Poole, Ph.D.
Co-Director
Rubbertown Emergency Action (REACT)

Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Louisville
The Work of Air Justice.
May 2, 2024 PEH/E Lonnie Sears, Ph.D. Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of Louisville
Indoor air pollution and child neurobehavioral health
June 6, 2024 MTT Host: External Speaker  Jennifer Schlezinger, Ph.D. Department of Environmental Health
Boston University School of Public Health
The Multi-Faceted Toxicity of PFAS: Structures, Targets and Adverse Health Outcomes.
July 11, 2024 MTT Lu Cai, Ph.D. Professor
Pediatrics, Radiation Oncology, and Pharmacology & Toxicology Dept.
What you should know before collaborating with Lu Cai, M.D., Ph.D. -- his lab's research interests.
August 1, 2024 EHC Charlie Zhang, Ph.D. Professor
Department of Geographic & Environmental Sciences
University of Louisville
Examining Health Impacts of Proximity to Coal Ash Storage Facilities in the United States: A National Geospatial Study
September 5, 2024 MTT Host: External Speaker Xinliang Ma, M.D., Ph.D. Dept of Emergency Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University
Two Faces of Adipocytes in Ischemic Heart Injury: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets.
October 3, 2024 EHC Lesley Harris, MSW, PhD Associate Professor
Raymond A. Kent School of Social Work and Family Science
Our World Our Say: Engaging Arts-Based Research to Explore Environmental Health Disparities with Youth Impacted by HIV in Hai Phong, Vietnam
November 7, 2024 MTT Sandra Wise, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Pharmacology & Toxicology Dept.
Scrambling the Genome: New Insights on Cr(VI)-induced Chromosome Instability
December 5, 2024 EHC Host: External Speaker Rebecca Pass Philipsborne, M.D.. M.P.A. Dept of Pediatrics
Emory University
School of Medicine
Climate and Health:  Towards Actionable Teaching, Research and Translation.
January 9, 2025 EHC Naveen Nagarajan, PhD. Assistant Professor
Pediatrics Research Institute
Department of Pediatrics/Child Neurology
University of Louisville
Microglia specific circuit defects in Repetitive behaviors and neurodevelopmental disorders
February 6, 2025 PEH/E To Be Determined To Be Determined To Be Determined
March 6, 2025 External Speaker To Be Determined To Be Determined To Be Determined