Events Calendar - Legacy [x], Medical Center [x], School of Medicine [x]
Wed25
12:00 PM
- day:
- Wednesday
- date:
- 01/25/2023
- time:
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
- event:
- Addressing Environmental Health Inequity: A Program of the UVA Community MLK Celebration
- area:
- Charlottesville
- location:
- Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium and Zoom
- type:
- Medical Center Hour
- department:
- Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
- services:
- audience:
- Everyone
- details:
- Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84058180402
The preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) declares that health is “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.” The health of individuals, of communities, and of social systems is increasingly inseparable from the health of our environment. However, from pollution and waste to climate change and zoonotic diseases, the burdens of an unhealthy environment do not fall equally on all persons and peoples. For all those who work to achieve the “state of complete well-being” envisioned over half a century ago by the WHO—clinicians, public and community health workers, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and advocacy organizations (among many others)—understanding environmental health inequities is essential. This event invites a conversation among experts from multiple sectors on realizing environmental health justice in Virginia and beyond.
(Co-presented with UVA Sustainability Civic Engagement and Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action). - isCME:
- Yes, credit available
- speakers:
- Irène Mathieu, MD Assistant Professor, General Pediatrics; Assistant Director, Program in Health Humanities, Center for Health Humanities and Ethics, UVA Ebony Hilton, MD Associate Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, UVA Tracy Kelly, DNP, MSN Assistant Professor of Nursing; Coordinator, Pediatric Acute Care NP, UVA Lena Bichell Fourth-Year Medical Student, UVA School of Medicine Christie Julien MA, Moderator Assistant Dean for Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, UVA Darden School of Business
- registration:
- No registration is necessary
- contact:
- Charlene Kaufman CMK2B@uvahealth.org