January is a month of chaos and overt racism, but all the more reason to focus on education to promote social change and equity. Events are listed below along with cost for a variety of virtual events resulting in recordings that can be watched at any time by registrants. These are popular so register early! Additionally, I am sharing some resources that assist you in developing your academic and career trajectories. Note that all recorded talks and presentations have * preceding the description so though some have passed the recordings are posted as I receive them…. February is towards the bottom.
ONGOING SERIES OR RESOURCES
- Columbia University Narrative Medicine Monthly Series Grand Rounds– first Wednesday of the month and recordings posted to Narrative Medicine YouTube channel as well as podcast of past Rounds on iTunes
- Hastings Center: “Securing Health in a Troubled Time.” Learn more and register.
- Columbia University has Grand Rounds, and Many Events open for Free from their School of Public Health: Link
- American Public Health Association Free Webinars on Health Disparities and Exposome: Link
- NEJM COVID Vaccines Resource Link
- Sci Hub- access to research articles open access effort Link
- PlasticPollutionCoalition: Recorded Webinar Series on fertility, health and the ecosystems Link
- Bioneers
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS
*Dec 30 Recorded Video “2021 Hope on the Horizon: A Fireside Chat with Moderna Founder Dr. Derrick Rossi & NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon”, Moderna founder, NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Alumnus, and NYSCF Board Member Derrick Rossi, PhD, shared the science behind the COVID-19 vaccines and what to look forward to in 2021.Hosted by NYSCF
Jan 8th 9:30am- 3:15pm Clinical Practice in the Dual Crisis of COVID and Climate Change Mount Sinai’s Institute for Exposome Research ($20) – POSTERS Available for Free Viewing here
Jan 8th 12:00pm Biobanking in the Era of Covid Cosponsored by The Hastings Center, the Personal Genetics Education Project, and Stanford and Columbia Universities. January 8, 2021, 12pm. This session will explore the ELSI challenges of biobanking during the pandemic, including the creation of new biobanks and the repurposing of existing samples for COVID-19 research. For those who cannot attend the live event, the forum will be recorded and archived on the ELSIhub Video page. These occur on the second Friday of each month, for Ethical Legal Social Implications Analysis Research- after each session there is a 30 minute informal discussion after each session and there lots of resources on their website . @ELSIhub (Free)\
*Jan 12: 8:30am- 1:30pm Recorded Video Maternal and Child Health Equity Mount Sinai Recording and NY Academy of Medicine robust conversations with leading New York City and national health experts with quantitative and qualitative data on maternal health, infant health, and the mom-baby dyad and in particular the challenges for Black women.(Free)
*Jan 14 Recorded Video “Covid 19 Vaccines and Ending the Pandemic NYSCF” Join viral immunologist, physician-researcher, and Pulitzer Prize winner Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, DPhil, epidemiologist, global health expert, and MacArthur Fellow Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, and member of Governor Cuomo’s COVID-19 Response Task Force Gareth Rhodes, JD, in conversation with NYSCF CEO and Founder Susan L. Solomon, JD about the obstacles that remain between us and ‘normalcy’ and how we can overcome them together. ( NYSCF Free)
*Jan 14 Recorded Video United to Debunk Misinformation in Our Communities: A Town Hall on COVID. focused on Black and LatinX communities with community based and faith based organizational leaders and policymakers specifically Texas Rep Lee’s Federal Efforts around Vaccine distribution. This event was sponsored by CEAL (Community Engagement Alliance- 11 state NIH) and the National Research Mentoring Network and designed to address health disparities, mistrust, and misinformation regarding COVID and vaccination efforts specifically in Black and LatinX communities.Follow Rep Lee’s Twitter
*Jan 15 Recorded Video “How Do We Ethically Distribute COVID-19 Vaccines?”, leaders in research, medicine, economics, and ethics explored the ethical considerations around access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, as well as how we can work together to maximize their benefits.
Jan 19 12:30-1:30pm Health Equity Seminar NYAM Discover the role of employers in achieving health equity and removing disparities in health outcomes for their employees. Hear from leaders in the healthcare industry and employers on current initiatives to make an impact on this issue. (Free)
Jan 21, 2:30pm- 4:00pm Racing Against COVID- Small Molecule Drugs and Rapid Development of Vaccines- Chemistry and Infectious Disease experts provide seminar via The Scientist. (Free)
* Jan 25 Recorded Video In “COVID-19 Vaccines & Ending the Pandemic,” experts in immunology, public health, medicine, research, and policy discussed the successes and challenges in vaccine distribution, and how we can move toward ‘normalcy. Hosted by NYSCF
Jan 26, 7-9:20pm To Carbon Neutral and Beyond: Is carbon offsetting a licence to pollute or a positive contribution to net zero? Expect interactive activities, valuable networking and live discussion alongside informative presentations. This workshop showcases The Future Economy Network and Future Leap’s sustainability consultancy offer.
Jan 27/28th, Exposome Symposium Mount Sinai’s Institute for Exposome Research Our mission is to understand how the exposome, or the totality of our environmental exposures, affect health, disease, and development. ($20)
Feb 2/3, 10:30am- 5:35pm The Quest for a COVID Vaccine- (science based talked) NYAS. ($20 with Membership fee of $35 for students)
Feb 3, 12-1:30pm The History and Future of Race, Health and Justice. Dorothy Roberts, CGS Advisory Board member and professor of law and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, will deliver the keynote address at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Health Equity Symposium at the convened by the Penn Medicine Office of Inclusion and Diversity. ” (Free)
Feb 9 12:00pm Daniel Callahan Annual Lecture, Advancing Social Justice, Health Equity, and Community Join Professor Patrick T. Smith of Duke University and Mildred Solomon, president of The Hastings Center, for an exploration of how thinking and insights afforded by Martin Luther King and the 20th century civil rights movement might help redress today’s widespread suffering and health inequities. How can values like dignity, solidarity, community (or what King termed the “beloved community”) be useful today? What can we do to acknowledge King’s notion of an “inescapable network of mutuality?” (Free)
February 23- Plastics, Endocrine Disruptors and Pollution
Tues, 2/23 1pm EST / 10am PST Count DownFeatures Terry Collins, PhD, Pete Myers, PhD, Thea Edwards, PhD, MS, Russ Hauser, MD, ScD, MPH, and Jerry Heindel, PhD. Hosted by Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Tues, 2/23 2pm EST / 11am PST Chemicals of Concern Revisited Features Tyrone Hayes, PhD, Terry Collins, PhD, and Richard Piacentini. Hosted by Phipps Conservatory
Weds, 2/24 5pm EST / 2pm PST Will Humanity Survive Plastic Pollution? Features Pete Myers, PhD and Dianna Cohen. Hosted by Plastic Pollution Coalition
Thursday Feb 25 5-7pm EST Reproduction and Genetic Technologies: presented by University of Oregon’s Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. With Camisha Russell and Paul Knoepfler; moderated by Judith Eisen; commentary by Françoise Baylis.
For more than 50 years, technologies like amniocentesis have used for prenatal screening purposes, to help individuals and families with histories of serious genetic illness make informed reproductive decisions. What do we do now that technologies exist not just to provide information but to select and even modify the genetic makeup of the next generation? Register here
February 26th 12-1:30pm The Climate Crisis: Multilateral Challenges and Opportunities Janos Pasztor, MIT ’78, SM ’79, former UN Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Change. Global level emission reduction plans currently fall considerably short of reaching agreed goals. Executive Director of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G) and former UN Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Change, speaks about the challenges and opportunities the world faces as we move towards climate-friendly, sustainable development.This event is FREE, but you must RSVP: HERE
Feb 26 4-5pm What you need to know abut the COVID-19 Vaccine Simons Foundation. Peter Hotez vaccine scientist and Apoorva Mandallei journalist. Register Free Link
IND STUDY COURSE: LSCI 3950 IS: Planetary Health Seminar CRN: 10021 has also been coordinated for these events for those who want to attend and do some academic work connected to them . Contact Katayoun Chamany chamanyk@newschool.edu for more info. and for permission that you can send to your Student Success Advisor to registrar.
FREE PUBLIC HEALTH SKILLS ONLINE DIGITAL BADGE CERTIFICATION: Additionally, if you are interested in gaining skills in public health there is a free skills online lab course -all people need is an email address – and then it leads to a Digital Badge on LinkedIn, they have an entire suite for Public Health – take special note of the industry/ NPO-led seminars from the WHO, John Hopkins, and CDC.