[Live Stream] From PBB to PFAS: Research and Action to Address Michigan’s Large-Scale Chemical Contaminations

8:30 – 8:50

Opening Remarks

Dana Dolinoy, Director, M-LEEaD Center, Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan

Carmen J. Marsit, Director, HERCULES Health and Exposome Research Center, Professor of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University 

8:50 – 9:25

The Challenges of PFAS  

Linda S. Birnbaum, PhD, DABT, ATS, Director (retired), Scientist Emeritus, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program

9:25 – 10:00

Health Effects of PBB: Research Enriched by Community Partners  

Michelle Marcus, Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Jane Keon, Secretary, Founding Member and Former Chair, Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force   

10:00 – 10:10

Break

10:10 – 10:30

An Intergenerational Conversation About Responses to Widespread Contamination 

Anthony Spaniola, Ufer, Spaniola & Frost, P.C./Need Our Water-Oscoda, Michigan

Francis Spaniola, Representative, Michigan House of Representatives, 1974-1990

Moderator: Brittany Bayless Fremion, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Central Michigan University              

10:30 – 11:30

Community Panel: Experiences with Large Scale Chemical Contaminations    

Theresa Landrum, Community Activist, Southwest Detroit, 48217

Edward Lorenz, Pine River Superfund Citizens Task Force

G. Tim Neyer, PBB Citizens Advisory Board

Lawrence Reynolds, Flint, Michigan

Donele Wilkins, Green Door Initiative, Detroit, Michigan

Sandy Wynn-Stelt, Rockford Michigan Resident

Moderator: Angela G. Reyes, Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation

11:30 – 12:00

PFAS Northeastern Conference, Building Networks Across Communities

Courtney Carignan, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Food Science & Human Nutrition; Pharmacology & Toxicology, Michigan State University      

12:00 – 12:45

Lunch Break

12:45 – 1:10

Presentation Title TBD 

Monica Lewis-Patrick, President & CEO, We the People of Detroit     

1:10 – 1:20

Introduction to Afternoon Activity

Amy J. Schulz, Professor, University of Michigan School of Public Health      

1:20 – 1:50

Fast Food for Thought 

The Role of Public Health Agencies in Protecting Communities: Marcus Cheatham, Health Officer, Mid-Michigan District Health Department

Policy Change: Jennifer Haverkamp, Graham Family Director, Graham Sustainability Institute, Clinical Professor of Public Policy, Adjunct Lecturer in Law, University of Michigan

Preparing the next generation of environmental public health researchers and activists: Simone Charles, University of Michigan School of Public Health and Natalie Sampson, University of Michigan Dearborn

Community-research collaboration: Angela G. Reyes, Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation

Building national networks/movements: Courtney Carignan, Michigan State University

THE PBB TO PFAS SYMPOSIUM is organized by: The University of Michigan M-LEEaD Center, Emory University’s HERCULES Health and Exposome Research Center, and Central Michigan University; Co-Sponsored by: the Graham Sustainability Institute, We the People of Detroit, the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR), and the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. Support for the M-LEEaD center is provided by grant P30ES017885 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health

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