Air Quality and COVID-19: Connections, Health Impacts, and Racial Disparities
Wednesday, July 15, 2020: 3 p.m.-4 p.m. CT
This webinar will discuss the preliminary implications of findings that suggest higher death rates of COVID-19 in individuals who have faced long-term exposure to poor air quality (PM 2.5). It will also focus on the findings that communities of color, especially African Americans, are especially at risk from the health impacts of both air pollution and COVID-19. Speakers will include researchers and experts from both the health and public policy perspectives working to understand and combat these synergistic health threats.
Moderated by Kelly Crawford, MS, the Associate Director of DC Department of Energy & Environment, Air Quality Division and Chair of DOEE's Equity Working Group. Speakers include Francesca Dominici, PhD. Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, Harvard University and the Clarence James, Gamble Professor of Biostatistics; Tesfaye Mersha, PhD., Associate Professor in Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; and Claudia Persico, PhD., Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy, American University.
4-5 p.m. online. More information and registration here. Sponsored by the American Lung Association.
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