2024 EDGE Symposium

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EDGE Symposium
Enhancing Equitable University/Community Partnerships

Thursday, June 6, 2024
4225 Roosevelt Ave NE, Suite 100, Room 229 
9 am - 4:30 pm

EDGE will host our annual symposium on June 6th, 2024. This all-day in-person event includes dynamic speakers, networking opportunities, and a catered lunch. Our focus this year will be on environmental health equity and community partnerships. We will also highlight the work of our recent EDGE pilot projects. The UW community is welcome to attend.

RSVP here 

Agenda

9:00 AM | Coffee, tea, registration

9:05 AM | Joel Kaufman, EDGE Director, Welcome and introduction to day

9:10 AM | Catherine Karr & Sheela Sathyanarayana, Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) cohort studies

9:55 AM | Mary Crocker & Elizabeth Reznikov, UW Pediatric and Reproductive Environmental Health Scholars K12 Program

10:30 AM | Break, refreshments

10:50 AM | EDGE Pilot Projects

  • Tania Busch Isaksen, Spokane Extreme Heat Risk Intervention Stakeholder Synthesis Symposium (SEHRI S3)
  • Diana Ceballos & Judit Marsillach, Characterization of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) exposure and related protein adductomic signatures to evaluate a local public health intervention in auto repair shops
  • Erica Fuhrmeister, Bioinformatic tools for assessing health risk of antimicrobial resistance within microbiomes
  • Yijie Geng, A zebrafish quantitative genetics platform for studying gene-environment interactions

12:20 PM | EDGE Awards and recognitions

12:30 PM | Lunch (provided)

1:30 PM | Anjum Hajat and Paulina Lopez (Duwamish River Community Coalition), Building an equitable university-community partnership: Duwamish Air Improvement Study for Youth (DAISY)

2:15 PM | Community-Engaged Research panel 
Panelists:

  • Paulina Lopez [or alternate] (Duwamish River Community Coalition)
  • Maria Batayola (El Centro de la Raza)
  • Edmund Seto

Moderator:

  • BJ Cummings

3:30 PM | Reception on 3rd floor patio (weather permitting)