{"id":733,"date":"2021-12-15T14:04:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T19:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rccp\/?page_id=733"},"modified":"2024-05-28T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T14:46:07","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rccp\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>A Public Conversation\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>On Eliminating Lead Poisoning in 2022<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"285\" id=\"kaltura_player\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnapisec.kaltura.com\/p\/2159741\/embedPlaykitJs\/uiconf_id\/54272102?iframeembed=true&#038;entry_id=1_yd2jqfof\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay *; fullscreen *; encrypted-media *\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-modals allow-orientation-lock allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-presentation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Kaltura Player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>The conference took place 12\/9\/21 at Boston University, as a project of the class Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations.\u00a0 It was defined as \u201c<em>A gathering based on the concept that lead poisoning does not belong in a civilized society, devoted to the question:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><strong>What do we do, now, to achieve the elimination of the unnecessary plague of lead poisoning?\u00a0<\/strong><em>That the harm is preventable is well understood.\u00a0 How do we put that principle into practice?\u00a0 The work of recent scholarship has shown the value of relevant investments, but this has only begun to result in political action.\u00a0 The problem presents itself in a spectrum of sources, and we have only partially acted to prevent lead from continuing to enter our environment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>AGENDA:\u00a0\u00a012:30 \u2013 Welcome from Organizers Rick Reibstein (Instructor) and Peri Taubman (Student).<br \/>\nKeynote: Dr. Phillip Landrigan, Director, Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good, and the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health, Boston College.<br \/>\n12:50 \u2013 1:40 Action by Municipalities:\u00a0\u00a0Colleen McCauley, Children First, Philadelphia; Paromita Hore, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; and Paul Shoemaker, Boston Public Health Commission<br \/>\n1:40 \u2013 2:30\u00a0 Bills Currently in the Massachusetts Legislature Addressing Lead: Senator Pat Jehlen, Representative David Leboeuf, Deirdre Cummings, MassPIRG<br \/>\n2:30 \u2013 3:00 National Legislation We Need:\u00a0David Jacobs, Chief Scientist, National Center for Healthy Housing; Speakers and Discussants<br \/>\n3:00 \u2013 3:20\u00a0 Funding for Action in Massachusetts:\u00a0Deborah Brown, former regional EPA lead program chief; Elana Brochin, Program Director for Health Equity, Mass. Assoc. of Community Development Corporations<br \/>\n3:20 \u2013 4:00 Lead in Soil, Shooting Ranges, Wildlife:\u00a0Howard Mielke, Tulane School of Medicine;\u00a0Mark Pokras, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine<br \/>\n<em>Discussants\u00a0<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Rick Rabin, MassCOSH, former director, Mass Occupational Lead Poisoning Registry; Ronnie Levin, Harvard School of Public Health, former senior scientist, US Environmental Protection Agency<\/p>\n<p><em>This event was an initiative of the class Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations (CAS EE 538). The event invited recommendations on how we may use the tools of governance to eliminate lead poisoning from our lives: submit ideas by writing Suggestion Box in the subject line of an email to leadconversation@gmail.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Public Conversation\u00a0On Eliminating Lead Poisoning in 2022 The conference took place 12\/9\/21 at Boston University, as a project of the class Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations.\u00a0 It was defined as \u201cA gathering based on the concept that lead poisoning does not belong in a civilized society, devoted to the question:\u00a0What do we do, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2445,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/733\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}