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Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program

Environmental Epidemiology and Cancer Webinar Series

Purpose

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.

Past Topics and Speakers

The Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program is dedicated to full accessibility and the inclusion of individuals with disabilities. We continuously strive to improve our recorded webinars' accessibility, recognizing that some may be more accessible than others. If you encounter any recorded webinar that does not meet your accessibility needs, please feel free to reach out to NCIDCCPSEGRPComms@mail.nih.gov.

2024
May 15 2024

Understanding the Impact of Social and Environmental Determinants on Lung Cancer Disparities

Speaker:
Loretta Erhunmwunsee, MD, FACSExternal Web Site Policy
Associate Professor
Division of Thoracic Surgery and Division of Health Equity
City of Hope Medical Center

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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

Feb 7 2024

Epidemiologic Evidence for the Roles of Environmental Exposures on Pediatric Cancers

Speaker:
Michael Scheurer, PhD, MPHExternal Web Site Policy
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

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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
2021
Oct 26 2021

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

Barbara A. Cohn, PhD, MPHExternal Web Site Policy
Director, Child Health and Development Studies, Public Health Institute

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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

Jun 9 2021

Advancing Environmental Health Research: Key Gaps in Environmental Epidemiology and Exposomics

Robert O. Wright, MD, MPHExternal Web Site Policy
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, MPHExternal Web Site Policy
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health & Engineering and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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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

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Somdat Mahabir, PhD, MPH
Program Director, Environmental Epidemiology Branch
mahabir@mail.nih.gov