Environmental Justice and Public Health
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Environmental Justice and Public Health
What
is the impact of environmentally irresponsible acts upon public health?
To what extent are members of poor and/or marginalized communities
vulnerable to such acts? This panel will address the issues of
environmental justice and public health.
Bhatia is director of
San Francisco Department of Public Health’s recently created Health
Inequities Research Unit and is a member of the Health and Social
Justice Committee for the National Association of County and City
Health Officials. His experience reflects his expertise in medicine,
epidemiology, environmental policy and decision-making.
Julie
Chavez Rodríguez is the granddaughter of César Chavez and has been an
activist since her childhood, when she was arrested at a protest at the
age of 10. She will address the issue of environmental justice from the
perspective of how pesticides affect farm workers.
Eveline
Shen is executive director of ACRJ, organizes low-income communities of
color around issues of social and environmental justice.
- Moderator: Cheryl Grills, Psychology Dept., LMU
- Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Activist, Cesar Chavez Foundation
- Rajiv Bhatia, Director of Occupational and Environmental Health, San Francisco
- Eveline Shen, MPH, Asian Community for Reproductive Justice