This webinar will explore the relationship between our climate emergency and ubiquitous exposure to toxic environmental chemicals, regarding their impacts on human reproductive health and fertility. Panelists will review current scientific research, and related clinical and public health policy implications, as background for discussing prevention interventions that are being endorsed and promoted by health care providers at the clinical/individual and national/international policy levels.

• Santosh Pandipati, MD - Dr. Pandipati is Medical Director for Maternal-Fetal Medicine at O’Connor Hospital in San Jose, CA.
• Jeanne Conry, MD, PhD - Dr. Conry is President elect of the International Federation of Gynecologists and Obstetricians (FIGO).
• Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH - Dr. Woodruff is the Director of the UCSF EaRTH Center and Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE). Prior to joining UCSF, she was a research scientist at the USEPA.
• Patrice Sutton, MPH - Ms. Sutton is a Research Scientist who has worked with the UCSF PRHE since 2008, focused on advancing evidence-based, health protective action on environmental health science in clinical and policy arenas. She has over 35 years of experience in occupational and environmental health research, industrial hygiene, public health practice, policy development and community-based advocacy. Ms. Sutton is currently the Chair of the Environmental Health Committee of SF Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility.

This webinar will explore how climate-fueled catastrophic environmental events have, and will increasingly, force mass displacement of populations within and across borders. Notably as described by the United Nations, refugees, stateless people, and the internally displaced often reside in climate change ‘hotspots’ and may be exposed to secondary displacement. This webinar will describe the threats to the health of these vulnerable migrant and refugee populations. These include the direct and indirect consequences of war and conflict, i.e., the lack of clean air, water, nutrition, and housing, increased exposure to infectious diseases, and psychological trauma.  The session will specifically explore how war and conflict fought over the control of fossil fuel supplies has in turn “fueled” our climate crisis, and related social and environmental injustices.

• Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH – Dr. Levy is a consultant in occupational and environmental health and an adjunct professor of public health at Tufts University School of Medicine. He previously worked as a medical epidemiologist with the CDC, a professor and director of the occupational health program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and as a director of international health programs. He served as president of the American Public Health Association and has written many published widley on occupational health and public health, climate change and public health, and the impact of war, terrorism, and social injustice on public health.
• Sarah J. Coates, MD – Dr. Coates is a graduate of the UCSF Dermatology residency program and a UCSF Global Health Institute Fellow.
• Rohini Haar, MD, MPH - Dr. Haar is an emergency physician with expertise in health and human rights. Her work focuses on the protection of human rights in times of complex humanitarian crisis and conflict.
• Fatima Karaki, MD - Dr. Karaki is the founder and director of the Refugee and Asylum seeker Health Initiative (RAHI) at UCSF, which fosters academic activity, research, education, advocacy, and community awareness. She works extensively in Syria and the Middle East, a region ravaged by both conflict and climate crisis, predicted to prompt ever more significant refugee migrations as water and food become scarce.
• Bob Gould, MD - Dr. Gould is a retired pathologist with Kaiser Permanente, an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the UCSF School of Medicine, and the President of the SF-Bay Area Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). Since 1986, Dr. Gould has been a leading member of the Peace Caucus of the American Public Health Association and has been recognized as a leading expert on the environmental and public health impacts of nuclear weapons.

This webinar will examine how the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries have created climate emergencies that have threatened global food production, human health, and soil health. We will explore the ubiquitous presence of chemicals in our food supply and the significant, cumulative impacts of extreme heat, pesticides, herbicides, and GMOs on agricultural communities, as well as the promise of regenerative agriculture.

• Yogi Hale Hendlin, PhD - Dr. Hendlin is an Assistant Professor and Core Faculty of the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a research scientist with the UCSF EaRTH Center.
• Brenda Eskenazi, PhD, MA. Dr. Eskenazi is the Jennifer and Brian Maxwell Professor of Maternal and Child Health and Epidemiology at UC Berkeley and the Principal Investigator and Director of the NIEHS/EPA Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health (CERCH).
• Lucia Sayre. Ms. Sayre is the Director of Regional Innovation and Community Resilience for the Healthy Food in Health Care (HFHC) of Health Care Without Harm (HCWH). Dr. Sayre has been co-creating the Anchors in Resilient Communities (ARC) project in California for the past five years, which is now serving as a model for HCWH’s organizational transition to hold community resiliency at the core of all programming.
• Hilary Bass. Ms. Bass is Executive Director of the Alameda County Deputy Sheriffs’ Activities League (DSAL), a nonprofit founded in partnership with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) that supports a range of food system initiatives.
• Ted Schettler, MD, MPH - Dr. Schettler has practiced medicine for many years, while also focusing on working with community groups and non-governmental organizations in the US and internationally to address human health and the environment. He has served on advisory committees of the US EPA and National Academy of Sciences. He serves as science director for the Collaborative on Health and Environment and actively participates in the Health Care Without Harm coalition. 

This session will explore through a moderated discussion the structural inequities of the healthcare system, laid to bare most recently by the COVID pandemic, and the institutional, socio-political and policy changes that are necessary to rebuild the health of our people, our economy, and our democracy.

• Abdul El Sayed, MD – Dr. El-Sayed is a physician, epidemiologist, media personality and progressive politician, who served as health director of the City of Detroit following its bankruptcy. He is a political contributor at CNN, the author of Healing Politics: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic, and Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide (co-authored with Micah Johnson), and the host of America Dissected with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a podcast about politics and public health produced by Crooked Media.
• Daniel H. Lowenstein, MD - Dr. Lowenstein is the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the Robert B. and Ellinor Aird Professor and Vice Chairman in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Director of Physician-Scientist and Education Training Programs for the UCSF School of Medicine. 
• Art Chen, MD - Dr. Arthur Chen is a Senior Fellow focusing on building a learning organization that promotes a culture of service excellence and community advocacy at Asian Health Services in Oakland, California, and is on the Board of Directors of the National Council of Asian and Pacific Islander Physicians, a national organization of physicians committed to advancing the health and well-being of Asian American and Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander peoples and communities. 
• Nadia Gaber, PhD - Dr. Gaber is a medical anthropologist with extensive community partnership experiences focused on environmental justice. She is also a 3rd year medical student at UCSF.

Reflecting on the devastating, disparate impacts of the COVID pandemic on communities of color, this panel will examine the role of structural racism in health outcomes and the systemic changes necessary to ensure health equity.

• Michael Bird, MPH, MSW – Mr. Bird (Kewa Pueblo/Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo) has over 25 years of public health experience in the areas of medical social work, substance abuse prevention, health promotion and disease prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention, behavioral health, and health care administration. Mr. Bird is the first American Indian and social worker to serve as President (2000-2001) of the American Public Health Association.
• Judy Young, MPH – Ms. Young is the Executive Director of the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health and the Co-Founder of the UCSF Black Women’s Health and Livelihood Initiative.
• Linda Rae Murray, MD, MPH - Dr. Murray is an internal and occupational medicine physician who has been a champion of social justice and outspoken advocate for the medically underserved for more than 40 years. She will talk about the devastating, disparate impacts of the COVID pandemic on essential workers and how policy solutions directed towards occupational health are central to racial, economic, and environmental justice.
• Patrice Sutton, MPH - Ms. Sutton is a Research Scientist who has worked with the UCSF PRHE since 2008, focused on advancing evidence-based, health protective action on environmental health science in clinical and policy arenas. She has over 35 years of experience in occupational and environmental health research, industrial hygiene, public health practice, policy development and community-based advocacy. Ms. Sutton is currently the Chair of the Environmental Health Committee of SF Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility.

This webinar will reflect on the long history of contamination in the Bayview Hunters Point community, the health harms disproportionately suffered by community members, and the challenges and opportunities for collaboration between community members, academics, scientists, and health professionals to address these environmental injustices.  We will then explore successes and lessons learned from Flint, Michigan, in mobilizing citizens to advocate for policy changes.

• Kim Rhoads, MD, MS, MPH - Dr. Rhoads is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Director of the Office of Community Engagement at the University of California, San Francisco’s Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. She has partnered with San Francisco Bayview Hunters Point residents to conduct research and develop community-driven solutions to address the hazardous exposures and health inequities faced by residents.
• Michelle Pierce - Ms. Pierce is the Executive Director of Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates and lifetime community member. 
• Dan Hirsch - Professor Hirsch is the President of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, a nuclear policy NGO, which he founded nearly half a century ago. He retired in 2017 as Director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
• Monica Lewis-Patrick - Ms. Lewis-Patrick is a nationally-recognized water advocate (recently profiled by the NYT) and serves as President and CEO of We the People of Detroit. Her organization has been on the frontlines of the water crises in Flint and Detroit, staffing a water rights hotline that ties mutual aid to community organizing. With artists, academics and institutional partners, We the People of Detroit has trained youth and adult residents to conduct research that addresses issues of local concern. In doing so, they have created a national model for community-led scholarship.
• Nadia Gaber, PhD - Dr. Gaber is a medical anthropologist with extensive community partnership experiences focused on environmental justice. She is also a 3rd year medical student at UCSF.