Care for Our World: Intersecting Health Equity and Rapid Climate Change

222 Merchandise Mart Plaza,Chicago IL 60654

01 September, 2022

Description

The U.S. healthcare system creates an insurmountable portion of national and global waste and pollution, having a direct effect on the pace and severity of climate change. Climate change poses detrimental threats to public health, and its effects are exacerbated for certain communities based on factors such as socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, gender, and access to care. Innovation is key to making our health system more equitable and sustainable. Join Loyola University Chicago Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health Dean Elaine Morrato and Loyola School of Environmental Sustainability Dean Nancy Tuchman along with a distinguished panel as we dive into the need for innovation in a world impacted by climate change. Learn about the 2022 Loyola Chicago Health Equity Quest and how you can get involved by submitting your idea or attending demo day in October. Join us in person at MATTER or virtually. Agenda: 9:00am | Welcoming remarks from MATTER and Loyola Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health 9:10am | Panel discussion 9:50am | Overview of Health Equity Quest & Wrap up 10:00-10:30am | Networking* *Note: Networking is for in-person tickets at MATTER ____________________________ Dean Elaine Morrato, DrPH, MPH, CPH, Founding Dean, Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, Loyola University Chicago Previously, Dean Morrato served as Interim Dean at the Colorado School of Public Health and was active in standing up that new school a decade ago. Trained in epidemiology and board-certified in public health, her personal work focuses on accelerating the translation of evidence into practice with a particular focus on drug safety. Her global pharmaceutical industry experience at Procter and Gamble developing and commercializing new drugs and indications informs her implementation of science research and practice. She is active in the NIH NCATS Clinical & Translational Sciences Award (CSTA) program where she directs Loyola’s collaboration with the University of Chicago-Rush University Institute for Translational Medicine. She is also a mentor and founding contributor to the national expansion of the Innovation-Corps (I-Corps)™ training program at NCATS for ensuring problem-solution fit and the scale-up and sustainability of academic health innovation. She regularly advises the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on issues of pharmaceutical risk management and completed a visiting professorship in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Dean Nancy Tuchman, PhD, Founding Dean, School of Environmental Sustainability, Loyola University Chicago Dean Tuchman's vision for the School of Environmental Sustainability is to raise public awareness of the unsustainable consumption of Earth’s natural resources with the goal of transforming behavior, developing policy and inspiring and preparing the next generation of science-based environmental leaders. To that end, the school engages students, faculty, staff and administrators in activities designed to lower their campus consumption of energy and natural resources and reduce their waste production. Under Tuchman’s direction, SES has developed several flagship programs including producing biodiesel which converts waste vegetable oil into fuel and uses it in their intercampus shuttle buses; using waste glycerin to produce soap which is being sold in their campus stores; and growing food organically at their 4-acre student-run farm and on their urban campus gardens. Tuchman’s research focuses on human impacts on aquatic ecosystem structure and function. Her work has spanned from investigating the effects of greenhouse gases on stream ecosystem food webs, to the impacts of invasive plant and animal species on Great Lakes coastal ecosystems, to the effects of emerging contaminants such as plasticizers (Bisphenol-A) and pharmaceuticals (e.g. antibiotics and endocrine disruptors) on streams and lakes. Working with students in research is one of the most rewarding aspects of Tuchman’s career. Throughout her 25-year career at Loyola, she has mentored or co-mentored 74 undergraduate students in individual research projects and 34 graduate students. MATTER's COVID-19 policy: All visitors will be required to present proof of vaccination upon entering the MATTER office. Masks are optional.