LWV's 8th Annual Shale and Public Health Conference

View the recording here of the 8th Annual Shale and Public Health Conference, presented on Tuesday, November 17, and Wednesday, November 18, by the League of Women Voters of PA and hosted by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. The conference featured five topic segments regarding new research on shale and public health impacts and practical applications. All segments included a panel discussion led by a top researcher offering framing remarks. There was also  a networking session on the first day of the event. Tuesday, Nov. 17 Novel Methods of Assessing Air Exposures & Public Health Nicole Deziel, Ph.D., MHS, Yale with Longxiang Li, ScD, Harvard, Petros Koutrakis, Ph.D., Harvard, and Jill Johnston, Ph.D., USC Unconventional Oil & Gas, Community Impacts & Environmental Justice Lara Cushing, Ph.D., MPH, UCLA; Jim Fabisiak, Ph.D., U of Pittsburgh with Cassandra Clark, Yale, Katie Dickinson Ph.D., U of Colorado Anschutz and Rebecca Franz, Chief Deputy Attorney General of PA Wednesday, Nov. 18 New Research on Birth Outcomes Lisa McKenzie, Ph.D., MPH, U of Colorado Anschutz with David Gonzalez, Stanford, and Kathy V Tran, Ph.D., UC Berkeley New Research on Other Health Outcomes Seth Shonkoff, Ph.D., MPH, PSE Healthy Energy/UC Berkeley with Irena Gorski Steiner, MPH, Johns Hopkins; Mary Willis, Ph.D., MPH, Oregon State; and David Brown, ScD, Environmental Health Project Climate Change, COVID 19, Fossil Fuels and Plastics Brian Schwartz, MD, Johns Hopkins with Kristina Marusic, Environmental Health News, and Anna Cummins, 5 Gyres