The Environmental Epidemiology and Cancer webinar series highlights novel cancer research strategies and needs focused on environmental exposures and cancer. Specifically, the webinar series covers knowledge gaps and potential research opportunities, state-of-the-science, research needs such as tools and technologies, and understudied scientific areas (including contemporaneous/emerging exposures) related to the environment and cancer.
Environmental exposures are defined broadly to include all the physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person, and all the related behaviors. This definition of environmental exposures includes all modifiable factors/conditions that impact humans, such as pollutants in food, air, water, and land; infectious agents (including the microbiome); pharmaceutical agents (including medications); and social determinants of health (the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age).
All interested individuals are invited to participate. However, pre-registration is required for each webinar. Each presentation will be about 30-40 minutes in length to allow for 20-30 minutes of discussion. Instructions for connecting to the webinars will be sent via e-mail to individuals who register.
Upcoming Topics and Speakers
There are currently no upcoming webinars scheduled.
Note: Additional speakers and topics may be added in the future.
Understanding the Impact of Social and Environmental Determinants on Lung Cancer Disparities
Speaker: Loretta Erhunmwunsee, MD, FACS Associate Professor Division of Thoracic Surgery and Division of Health Equity City of Hope Medical Center
In this presentation, Dr. Erhunmwunsee discussed the influence of adverse neighborhood social and environmental determinants on lung cancer biology and risk.
Understanding the Impact of Social and Environmental Determinants on Lung Cancer Disparities
Understanding the Impact of Social and Environmental Determinants on Lung Cancer Disparities
Feb
72024
Epidemiologic Evidence for the Roles of Environmental Exposures on Pediatric Cancers
Speaker: Michael Scheurer, PhD, MPH Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
Sidney L. and Donald F. Faust Chair of Pediatric Cancer Epidemiology at Texas Children’s Cancer Center
Associate Director for Excellence in Cancer Equity, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Host: Somdat Mahabir, PhD, MPH Program Director, Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute
There is great interest in childhood cancer prevention, including understanding how environmental exposures affect the childhood cancer continuum. Dr. Michael Scheurer is studying genetic and social determinants of adverse outcomes experienced by Latino pediatric cancer survivors, as well as biological and social factors that contribute to leukemias among African American children. In this webinar, he presented on epidemiologic evidence for the roles of environmental exposures in pediatric cancers.
Epidemiologic Evidence for the Roles of Environmental Exposures on Pediatric Cancers
Epidemiologic Evidence for the Roles of Environmental Exposures on Pediatric Cancers
Oct
262021
The In utero Environment, Cancer Over the Life-course and Relevance to Current Trends in Cancer Incidence: Direct Evidence From a 60-year Follow-up of the Child Health and Development Studies Cohort
The 3-Generation Child Health and Development Studies has explored the relation of perinatal events and environmental chemical exposures to cancer in mothers, sons and daughters and recently to cancer risk factors in granddaughters. These are some of the first studies ever to report on the relation of in utero exposures to cancer risk and to consider the importance of exposure timing during windows of susceptibility. Dr. Cohn will summarize published studies on breast cancer, testes cancer, and new findings on early onset colon cancer and our newest funding and approach for investigation of two-generation risk for lethal prostate cancer with a focus on disparate higher risk for aggressive disease in Black men. She also presented metabolomics findings relevant to uncovering mechanisms observed for patterns of cancer risk in the Child Health and Development Studies cohort and discuss her view of next steps for life-course studies of cancer.
The In utero Environment, Cancer Over the Life-course and Relevance to Current Trends in Cancer Incidence: Direct Evidence From a 60-year Follow-up of the Child Health and Development Studies Cohort
The In utero Environment, Cancer Over the Life-course and Relevance to Current Trends in Cancer Incidence: Direct Evidence From a 60-year Follow-up of the Child Health and Development Studies Cohort
Jun
92021
Advancing Environmental Health Research: Key Gaps in Environmental Epidemiology and Exposomics
Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH Co-Director, Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chair, Dept. of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Jessie Buckley, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor of Environmental Health & Engineering and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
This webinar discussed the rapidly advancing field of exposomics, particularly in the context of precision medicine, as well as the research needs in the areas of exposure assessment, longitudinal studies, and statistical methods addressing mixtures and multidimensional exposures.
Advancing Environmental Health Research: Key Gaps in Environmental Epidemiology and Exposomics
Advancing Environmental Health Research: Key Gaps in Environmental Epidemiology and Exposomics
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