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Seminar topic TBD Carmen M. Vélez Vega, PhD, MSW University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus |
Dr Vega is Chair of the Social Sciences Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, School of Public Health, and is a tenured Associate Professor. She has ample experience in community engagement activities and teaches in this area in the Schools MPH and Doctorate programs. She is part of the Faculty of the new Doctorate in Public Health in Social Determinants of Health program, and founding member of the Latin American Center for Sexual Health Promotion. She designs and teaches course in sexual health of LGBTT people for Public Health and other Health professionals.
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Seminar topic TBD Matt Bozigar, PhD Oregon State University, College of Health |
Matt Bozigar is an environmental epidemiologist with a multidisciplinary background. He studies multiple adverse environmental exposures (e.g., noise, air pollution, aeroallergens, radon) and health outcomes (e.g., asthma, cancer, cardiometabolic risk factors and diseases). Matt views environmental epidemiology through a geographical lens that emphasizes “place” and how it affects the health of populations.
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Seminar topic TBD Sarah Blossom, PhD University of New Mexico, Health Sciences, Albuquerque |
Sarah Blossom's research is focused on studying the impacts of environmental toxicants on autoimmunity and hypersensitivity disorders in animal models. Sarah is a basic scientist, immunologist, and T cell biologist by training, with specific expertise in the immunotoxicology of water contaminants, namely the industrial solvent trichloroethylene. She has been continuously funded as a Principal Investigator since 2010. In her new R01, she will investigate the epigenetic impacts of TCE exposure in pathogenic subsets of CD4+ cells and study how they promote autoimmune disease.
