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Thursday, May 28, 2020
How the COVID-19 pandemic is developing in Latin America. May 28, 2020
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Greater Washington Board of Trade is hosting a 3-part program "COVID-19 Briefing Call Series: Reopening the Region, Safely and Swiftly"
The Greater Washington
Board of Trade is hosting a 3-part program "COVID-19 Briefing Call
Series: Reopening the Region, Safely and Swiftly" beginning today.
See below for details and registration links for each.
Part 1: The
Public Health Puzzle
Tuesday, May 26, 11:00
AM – 12:00 PM
Widespread testing,
contact tracing, an effective treatment for hospitalized COVID-19 patients,
abundant personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline workers, and
eventually a vaccine are all critical for controlling outbreaks and saving
lives. A two-week downward trajectory in cases is the widely accepted criteria
for beginning to relax social distancing orders. In this discussion, health
leaders from across the region will explain how these puzzle pieces fit
together and the research, development, and production efforts behind securing
each piece, with status updates from Maryland, Virginia, and the District.
Speakers:
- Lisa
Lockerd Maragakis, Senior Director of Infection Prevention, The Johns
Hopkins Health System
- Georges
C. Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association
- Laurie
Forlano, Deputy Commissioner for Population Health, Virginia Department of
Health
- Fran
Phillips, R.N., Deputy Secretary for Public Health Services, Maryland
Department of Health
- Dr.
John Davies Cole, State Epidemiologist, District of Colombia
Part 2: Phased
Reopening Plans in VA, DC, and MD
Wednesday, May 27,
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Maryland, Virginia, and
the District each have phased plans for reopening the economy. On this call, we
will learn how each jurisdiction has approached this challenge and what Phase
One might look like in each jurisdiction and across the region. (For useful
background, consult Summary of District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia
Reopening Guidelines published by the Metropolitan
Washington Council of Governments on May 21.)
Speakers:
- Moderator:
Roy McGrath, IOM, CAE, CEO and Chairman of Maryland Environmental Service
- Eugene
D. Kinlow, Director of the Office for Federal and Regional Affairs,
Executive Office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia
- Kelly
M. Schulz, Secretary, Maryland Department of Commerce
- Angela
Navarro, Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Trade, Commonwealth of Virginia
Part 3: Getting
Back to Business
Thursday, May 28, 11:30
AM – 12:30 PM
When businesses can
reopen, most will face new expectations for how they protect workers and
customers. Building on the insights gained in the first two parts of this
series, we will explore those expectations and the financial and operational
challenges they create. This discussion will cover company needs, efforts to
meet those needs, and forecasts for the future. The goal is to help
professionals in all industries better prepare for the road ahead.
Speakers:
- Moderator:
Evan Kraus, Managing Director in Washington, APCO Worldwide
- Larry
Di Rita, Greater Washington, D.C. Market President, Bank of America
Register now: SRP Risk e-Learning webinar this Thursday, May 28, 2-4 pm ET
Registration is
filling up fast for the second session of our NIEHS Superfund
Research Program (SRP) Risk e-Learning webinar series, Exposures and
Latent Disease Risk, this Thursday, May 28 from
2:00-4:00 pm EDT. In the second session, presenters will discuss new methods
to understand potential disease risk by identifying hallmarks or key
characteristics associated with disease. These methods may provide a way to
link exposures to disease earlier in the disease's progression.
We are currently at about 90% registration capacity so we
encourage you to register ASAP if you would like to attend the live webinar. If
registration fills up, you will be placed on a wait list and will receive the
full archived recording of the webinar next week. That way, you can still
listen to the full recording at your convenience after it is presented on
Thursday.
The webinars are free and open to the public. Registration
is open for the remaining three sessions (links below).
If you were unable to join the first session, Linking
Exposures to Diseases with Long Latency Periods, an archive is now available on
the CLU-IN webinar page.
Session II - Identifying Hallmarks and Key Characteristics
Thursday, May 28, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. EDT
Session II Registration
Thursday, May 28, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. EDT
Session II Registration
Speakers:
· Martyn Smith,
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley SRP Center
· Michele La
Merrill, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
· Ron Kohanski,
Ph.D., National Institute on Aging
· Moderator: Heather
Henry, Ph.D., NIEHS Superfund Research Program
Martyn Smith,
Ph.D., director of the University of California, Berkeley SRP Center,
will describe the key characteristics approach to helping identify chemicals
that cause cancer and other adverse outcomes. In evaluating whether a chemical
can cause cancer or another adverse outcome, three lines of evidence are typically
considered: epidemiology, animal bioassays, and mechanistic evidence. The key
characteristics (KC) form the basis of a uniform approach for searching,
organizing, and evaluating mechanistic evidence to support hazard
identification without the need for a deductive hypothesis. KCs are the
established properties of the chemicals and have been developed for
carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, reproductive and neuro-toxicants, and are
becoming increasingly used by authoritative bodies and regulatory agencies.
Michelle La
Merrill, Ph.D., associate professor at the University of California,
Davis, will focus on using the key characteristics of endocrine disruptors to
organize mechanistic support of the developmental basis of endocrine
disruption. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are exogenous chemicals that
interfere with hormone action, thereby increasing health risks, such as for
cancer, reproductive impairment, cognitive deficits, and obesity. Inspired by
work to improve hazard identification of carcinogens using KCs, they have
developed 10 KCs of EDCs based on our knowledge of hormone actions and EDC
effects. This presentation will reveal how these 10 KCs can be used to
identify, organize and utilize mechanistic data when evaluating chemicals as
EDCs that contribute to developmental vulnerability to adult disease, and use
DDT and bisphenol A as examples to illustrate this approach.
Ron Kohanski,
Ph.D., deputy director of the Division of Aging Biology at the
National Institute on Aging, will focus on aging as a risk factor for disease.
Geroscience is a recently evolved field of research on the intersection between
the biology of aging and the biology of disease. The geroscience hypothesis
states that “slowing the rate of aging will delay the onset and decrease the
severity of chronic diseases and comorbidities that primarily impact older
people.” This does not mean that old age per se is a risk factor, any more than
claiming that childhood is a risk factor for diseases that primarily afflict
children. However, in the latter case the underlying causes may be the stage of
development does not yet confer resilience against pathogens, for example. In
the former case, the underlying causes may be loss of that resilience (acquired
over a lifetime) from the failure of underlying molecular networks that
maintain the body and adapt to environmental changes. This talk will present a
viewpoint that aging can be treated as a risk factor, attempting to show that
both the magnitude and duration of changes that are the process of aging can be
altered in ways that are either beneficial or detrimental to health.
In the third session, presenters will describe
studies linking early-life arsenic exposure and later-life disease risk. The
focus on arsenic as a case study may also provide insights into linking other
exposures to latent disease risk and identifying windows of susceptibility.
· Yu Chen,
Ph.D., New York University, Columbia University SRP Center
· Maria Argos,
Ph.D., University of Chicago, Columbia University SRP Center
· Fenna Sillé,
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
· Erik Tokar,
Ph.D., National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
· Moderator: Brittany
Trottier, NIEHS Superfund Research Program
In the fourth and final session, presenters will
discuss emerging toxicology and modeling methods, as well as needs, to better
link exposure to latent disease risk.
Speakers:
· Stefano Monti,
Ph.D., Boston University SRP Center
· Manish Arora,
Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
· Stephen Ferguson,
Ph.D., National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
· Moderator: Michelle Heacock,
Ph.D., NIEHS Superfund Research Program
2020 Atlantic hurricane season officially begins next Monday, June 1
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
officially begins next Monday, June 1. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic
and with communities currently responding to flooding and other severe weather
events, we want to share the below resources and upcoming CDC webinar that may
be helpful as you build and adjust disaster preparedness, response, and recovery
plans.
·
FEMA: COVID-19 Pandemic Operational Guidance for the 2020
Hurricane Season ─ This document
describes anticipated challenges to disaster operations posed by COVID-19;
highlights planning considerations; outlines how FEMA plans to adapt response
and recovery operations; and includes guidance, checklists, and resources to
support emergency managers and public health officials
·
CDC: 2020 Hurricane Season During COVID-19 Webinar on May 27
at 1 p.m. ET ─ During this webinar, CDC’s National Center for
Environmental Health and the CDC EPIC Team will discuss possible health risks
that could come from hurricanes combined with COVID-19; planning for the 2020
hurricane season while adhering to guidance on social distancing; and how
community leaders, nonprofit organizations, and public health professionals can
effectively communicate messages
·
Additional Hurricane and Severe
Weather Resources
·
FEMA Resources (ready.gov): Hurricanes,
Floods,
Tornadoes,
Extreme Heat,
Wildfires
As we face the additional challenges
of natural disasters while still responding to COVID-19, I thank you for your
continued commitment and dedication to keeping your families, neighbors, and
communities safe.
Register for the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit. May 2020
The UN
Global Compact Leaders Summit was designed to be bigger, bolder and more
inclusive, so all employees and staff of UN Global Participants are invited to
attend as complimentary guests. It is our hope that all organizations
across the UN Global Compact will unite in solidarity for one day to inspire,
learn and contribute to the strong recovery the world needs.
We encourage you to invite your entire
organization to join us. Send this registration link to colleagus to register
today: Register for the UN Global Compact
Leaders Summit.
You will
receive an informational email in the next couple of weeks with all the event
details including a link to sign into the event, information on how to set up
your profile in the event platform and frequently asked questions. In the
meantime, let the world know you are attending! Click here to share on
Twitter.
We are
delighted you will join us and we look forward to seeing you soon. If you have
any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us by replying to this email.
Kind
regards,
Leaders
Summit Secretariat