LEARN ABOUT POLLUTION AFFECTING YOUR COMMUNITY & CIVIL RIGHTS DR. WILSON WILL BE SPEAKING AT MILLSBORO SENIOR- CENTER, 214 IRONS AVENUE, MILLSBORO--934-8839 Wednesday 11-5-14--6-9pm Sponsored by Protecting our Indian River & Socially Responsible Agricultural Project Sacoby Wilson Ph.D., M.S. Assistant Professor Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health Assistant Professor: Education: 1. 2005, Ph.D., Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina 2. 2000, M.S, Environmental Health, University of North Carolina 3. 1998, B.S., Biology / Ecotoxicology, Agricultural and Mechanical University, Huntsville AL Dr. Wilson is an environmental health scientist with expertise in environmental justice and environmental health disparities. His primary research interests are related to issues that impact underserved, socially and economically disadvantaged, marginalized, environmental justice, and health disparity populations - including issues such as environmental justice, air pollution, housing disparities, built environment, climate change, drinking water quality, food justice, Port of Charleston, sewer and water infrastructure, goods movement, traffic exposure and health disparities, community-university environmental health partnerships, industrial animal production, exposures for subsistence fishers, and community revitalization. For more information call Jay Meyer 302-584-2744 \ 1. What is Environmental Justice? Includes discussion of potential air and water impacts from processing plant 2. What are the communities concerns with health and this proposed processing plant ? 3. How do we do a Health Impact Study? A bit about Dr. Wilson: Currently, Dr. Wilson is the director of The Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health (CEEJH) lab. He has expertise in exposure science and applied environmental health including community-based exposure assessment, environmental justice science, social epidemiology, environmental health disparities, built environment, air pollution monitoring, and community-based participatory research (CBPR). He is trained in secondary data analysis, advanced geographic information systems and spatial methods, and other quantitative and qualitative approaches. He is currently Principal Investigator (PI) of a NIEHS-funded R21 research to action grant with the Low Country Alliance for Model Communities (LAMC) entitled Use of a Community-University Partnership to Eliminate Environmental Stressors. This is a community-university partnership between the LAMC, UMD, and USC working to address pollution and revitalization issues for economically distressed African-American neighborhoods in North Charleston, SC. The specific aims of this study include: 1) Assess geographic distribution of pollution sources in North Charleston, SC; 2) Quantify levels of PM and heavy metals near industrial and non-point sources of pollution in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in North Charleston, SC; and 3) Increase community capacity to reduce exposure, prevent pollution, and improve public health. He is also Co-Principle Investigator (Co-PI) of an Environmental Health core at a NIMHD-funded health disparities P20 Center of Excellence at USC led by Dr. Saundra Glover. The team is working to study and address environmental health disparities in the state of South Carolina, assess environmental determinants of cancer and cancer risk using Photovoice, and build community capacity to map environmental quality at the block level. He has worked with community-based environmental justice organizations to assess built environment impacts on the health of underserved communities using CBPR. He had a NIH R03 grant to evaluate a novel community-university environmental justice partnership with the West End Revitalization Association (WERA). He is also on a NIH-funded R01 project as a consultant on GRACE, a community-university partnership that is assessing the long-term health impacts of exposure to chlorine gas due to a train derailment in Graniteville, SC. He is Co-PI of RISE, another Graniteville project, whose goal is to take a mixed-method approach, using both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, with community-based participatory research (CBPR) to document how the challenges presented by the post-disaster surge in health service delivery are further compounded within a medically underserved community in the rural South. Dr. Wilson received his PhD and MS degree in environmental health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a two-time EPA STAR fellow, Senior Fellow in the Environmental Leadership Program, and Past Immediate Chair of the Environment Section of the American Public Health Association. He is also on National Academy of Sciences committee to develop a report on Exposure Science in the 21st Century. Dr. Wilson is a board member for Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) and a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for CDCs NCEH/ATSDR. Dr. Wilson received a 2010 Steve Wing Environmental Justice International Achievement Award from the NC Environmental Justice Network. EPA 20th Anniversary Environmental Justice Video Series: Sacoby Wilson, PhD youtu.be/a_H1Z0FiiZs
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