Current Challenges to Environment and Public Health in Armenia: A Policy Discussion
Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Location: World Bank, Building J (across 18th Street from the main building) Room J-1-050 (Info Shop)
Time: 6:30-8:00 p.m.
RSVP requested by February 5 to serda.ozbenian@gmail.com.
Discussion Agenda
6:30 p.m. Introduction and Welcoming Remarks
6:40 p.m. Recent Student Research on Emerging Environmental Health Threats in Armenia
George Jakab, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
7:10 p.m. Threats to Public Health in Armenia from Lead Pollution and Pathogens in Public Swimming Waters
Charles Dunlap, Ph.D., Senior Program Manager, U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation
7:30 p.m. Q & A, open to the floor
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Dr. George Jakab is a respiratory toxicologist who teaches and researches environmental health at Johns Hopkins University as well in Armenia and Pakistan. He is experienced in environmental health problems in transitional societies and will present data from recent research by his public health masters students in Yerevan.
Dr. Charles Dunlap was an assistant professor at the American University of Armenia from 1999-2004 and the Director of the AUA’s Environmental Conservation and Research Center. His research includes the use of lead isotope analysis to trace the origin and movement of lead contamination in the environment.
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