Love Data Week Keynote Presentation: Environment, Health, and Justice: The Power of Community and Inter-disciplinary Science

Description

Ana Navas-Acien, professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University, will give a talk titled "Environment, Health, and Justice: The Power of Community and Inter-disciplinary Science" as part of Love Data Week.

This talk will discuss the role of addressing environmental exposures to improve people's health and advance environmental justice with a focus on communities that are affected by hazardous metal exposures from abandoned mines in the Northern Plains and the Southwest. Different types of data, the synergistic impact of multi-disciplinary approaches and interventions, and the role of traditional knowledge and data sovereignty will be presented.

See the entire schedule of Johns Hopkins Data Services' Love Data Week.