Seminars & Workshops
CACHET Seminar Series – A monthly series of lectures sponsored by the ChicAgo Center for Health and EnvironmenT (CACHET).Upcoming Seminars
October 31st, 2019: UIC – Joel Schwartz (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
November 21st, 2019: UofC – Robert Wright (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
January 30th, 2020: UIC – Carmen Marsit (Emory University Rollins School of Public Health)
February 27th, 2020: UofC – Andrea Baccarelli (Columbia Mailman School of Public Health)
March 26th, 2020: UIC – Susan Schantz (Beckman Institiute at the University of Illinois)
April 30th, 2020: UofC – TBD
May 28th, 2020: UIC – Philippe Grandjean (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Previous Seminars
May 30, 2019
Kristen Malecki, Ph.D., MPH
“Systems thinking approaches to environmental health: Findings from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW)”
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March 28, 2019
12 – 1pm | UIC
Sola Olopade, MD, MPH
“Ambient and Household Air Pollution: The Unseen and Underestimated Global Health Threat”
February 28, 2019
Mark Templeton
“Environmental and Energy Advocacy at the University of Chicago’s Abrams Environmental Law Clinic”
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William Kling
“Community Activism: A Framework for Mapping Community Assets”
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November 29, 2018
CACHET Endocrine and Metabolic Disease Technical Symposium
Monica Peek, MD, MPH (UChicago)
“Leveraging the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translational Research for Environmental Health Research”
Honggang Ye, PhD (UChicago)
“Resources in the Chicagoland Diabetes Research and Training Center to Support Environmental Health Research”
Jonathan Ozik, PhD (Argonne National Laboratory)
“Employing Simulated Populations to Study Environmental Health”
Gokhan Dalgin, PhD (UChicago)
“Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for the Study of Environmental Health”
Abhinav Bhushan, PhD (IIT)
“Metabolic tissue-chips: Techniques to Study Environmental Toxicology and Metabolic Diseases”
May 23, 2018
Charlie Catlett (UofC, Argonne National Library)
“Initial Lessons Learned with an Urban-Scale Sensing Infrastructure”
April 26, 2018
Dr. Jack Gilbert
Invisible Influence: The Microbiome in Environment and Human Health.
Dr. Jack Gilbert is a leading expert on the microbiome and he will discuss how the microbiome is influenced by the environment, how it modifies health, and how it can be used as a biomarker of exposures. Recorded on 4/26/18.
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February 15, 2018
Habibul Ahsan (UofC)
“Local and global environmental health research resource for CACHET investigators”
February 15, 2018
Gail Prins (UIC)
“Prostate Stem Cells as EDC Targets that Increase Cancer Susceptibility”