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Thank you to Associate Professor I Leslie Rubin of Morehouse School of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, Co-director of the Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Unit (PEHSU) at Emory University, and Medical Director of The Rubin Center for Autism and Developmental Pediatrics. He is the founder of Break the Cycle of Health Disparities, Inc. a private not-for-profit 501c3 organization dedicated to the reducing social, economic, and environmental determinants of health disparities. His lecture was on Breaking the Cycle of Children’s Environmental Health Disparities can be viewed on YouTube here.

 

Thanks also to my dear friend Dr. Laurel Berman for co-hosting this session of Environmental Fridays with me. She leads the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s National Land Reuse (ATSDR) Health Program, which integrates public health and redevelopment from the early planning stages. She brings her skills to the Initiative from a long career as an environmental scientist and a community engagement specialist. Dr. Berman holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) School of Public Health, with a focus on industrial hygiene and toxicology. She is adjunct faculty in public health at UIC, DePaul University, and Andrews University. 

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