Registration
The symposium will take place on Friday, April 28, 2017, at the Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center.
While registration is not required, for planning purposes, we kindly ask that you register your attendance by clicking here.
While registration is not required, for planning purposes, we kindly ask that you register your attendance by clicking here.
Program
8:30 Light breakfast reception
9:00 Welcome address
Norah MacKendrick (Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University)
9:15 Keynote address: Title TBA
Linda Birnbaum (Director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program)
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Session I: Title TBA
Dorceta E. Taylor (Professor and James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Chair, University of Michigan)
12:00 Lunch break
1:00 Session II: Current crises
Phil Brown (University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences, and Director of the Social Science Environmental Health
Research Institute, Northeastern University)
Clifford P. Weisel (Professor of Exposure Science, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers University)
2:45 Light refreshments break
3:00 Session III: Title TBA
Ami Zota (Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University)
3:45 Session IV: Panel and discussion title TBA
Ana Baptista (Assistant Professor in the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management Program, The New School; Member of the New
Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance)
Molly Greenberg, MSW (Environmental Justice Policy Manager; Ironbound Community Corporation, Newark)
Robert Laumbach, M.D., M.P.H., C.I.H. (Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rutgers School of Public
Health)
Nicky Sheats (Director, Center for the Urban Environment, John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy of Thomas Edison Sate College, Trenton, NJ)
5:00 Closing remarks
Norah MacKendrick (Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University)
9:00 Welcome address
Norah MacKendrick (Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University)
9:15 Keynote address: Title TBA
Linda Birnbaum (Director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program)
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Session I: Title TBA
Dorceta E. Taylor (Professor and James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Chair, University of Michigan)
12:00 Lunch break
1:00 Session II: Current crises
Phil Brown (University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences, and Director of the Social Science Environmental Health
Research Institute, Northeastern University)
Clifford P. Weisel (Professor of Exposure Science, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers University)
2:45 Light refreshments break
3:00 Session III: Title TBA
Ami Zota (Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University)
3:45 Session IV: Panel and discussion title TBA
Ana Baptista (Assistant Professor in the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management Program, The New School; Member of the New
Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance)
Molly Greenberg, MSW (Environmental Justice Policy Manager; Ironbound Community Corporation, Newark)
Robert Laumbach, M.D., M.P.H., C.I.H. (Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rutgers School of Public
Health)
Nicky Sheats (Director, Center for the Urban Environment, John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy of Thomas Edison Sate College, Trenton, NJ)
5:00 Closing remarks
Norah MacKendrick (Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University)
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