April 12, 2010 - By Mark Shwartz
Michele Barry
Three School of Medicine faculty will be among the speakers at the spring Environment & Health Lecture Series. The lectures will take place at 3:15 p.m. on Tuesdays in room 41 of Jordan Hall (Building 420) on the university campus; they are free and open to the public.
The series examines the interconnectedness of the environment and human and animal health, including the impacts of climate, economics and land-use change on diseases.
The most up-to-date listing of the lectures is available at https://woods.stanford.edu/news-events/calendar.
The preliminary schedule for lectures in April and May includes:
April 13: Kris Ebi, PhD, MPH, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “Human health risks of and public health responses to climate change.”
Gary Schoolnik
April 20: Gary Schoolnik, MD, School of Medicine and Woods Institute for the Environment, “Understanding disease at the landscape level: Land-use change and emergent diseases.”
April 27: Lynne Gaffikin, DrPH, “Population, ecosystem services and human well-being.”
May 4: Eric Lambin, PhD, School of Earth Sciences and Woods Institute, “Understanding disease emergence at the landscape level: People-animal-landscape interactions.”
May 11: Eran Bendavid, MD, School of Medicine, “Economic environment and health: Lessons from the HIV epidemic.”
May 25: Michele Barry, MD, School of Medicine, “Making a difference: The global health corps.”
The lecture series is sponsored by the Global Health Program; the medical school’s Institute for Immunity Transplantation and Infection; the Stanford Program in Human Biology; and the Woods Institute for the Environment.
About Stanford Medicine
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