Physicians for Human Rights

8:00-8:15 AM  Breakfast

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8:15-8:30 AM  Introductory Remarks and Introduction of Exhibit

                              Sarah Johansen, MD, PHR advisor

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8:30-9:30 AM  KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Planetary Health: Perils and Possibilities for Human                         Civilization

                             Samuel Myers, MD, MPH, Director, Planetary Health Alliance

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9:30-11:00 AM  Planetary Health Alliance Workshop on Planetary Health - Infectious Disease,

                          Nutrition, Mental Health

                              Kennedy E. Jensen, Institute for Circumpolar Health Research 

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11:00-11:15 AM  Coffee Break

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11:15-12:00 PM  Breakout Sessions (Choose 1 of 2)

                            

                           Energy, Health, and Policy 

• Anant Sundaram, PhD, Clinical Professor of Business Administration at Dartmouth College

• Facilitated by Amanda Graham, PhD, Academic Director of Arthur L Irving Institute for Energy and Society at Dartmouth College

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                           Mercury and Arsenic in our Food: A Planetary Health Perspective

• Celia Chen, PhD, Director, Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program at Dartmouth College

• Carolyn Murray, MD, MPH, Director, Community Outreach and Translation Core (COTC), Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth

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12:00-12:45 PM  Lunch 

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1:00-1:50 PM  Arctic Health and Wellness 

                            Ross Virginia, PhD, Director of Arctic Studies

                           Anne Sosin, MPH, Global Health Initiative Program Director at The Dickey Center for                                        International Understanding at Dartmouth College

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2:00-2:45 PM  Breakout sessions (Choose 1 of 3)

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                           Implications of Climate Change for the Northeastern United States

• Jonathan Winter PhD, Assistant Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College

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                           Effect of Natural Disasters and Global Response in Haiti

• Patricia Lopez, PhD, Assistant Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College

• Peter Wright, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College

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                           Sustainable Food and Hunger

• Laurie J. Beyranevand, JD, Director at Center for Agriculture and Food System and Professor of Law at Vermont Law School

• Gabe Zoerheide, Executive Director of Willing Hands

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2:45-3:00 PM  Coffee Break

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3:00-3:45 PM  A Career Perspective on Epidemics 1979-2019: From Dartmouth to the World                              to the Smithsonian

                            Daniel Lucey, MD, MPH, Senior Scholar, O'Neill Institute 

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3:45-4:00 PM  Closing Remarks and Acknowledgements

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Note: The program/ schedule is subject to change

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