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.
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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)