Invitation to a conference on Citizen Epidemiology at the Brooklyn Law School.  The invitation to the conference includes a grassroots organization from Louisiana that has been working in this area for several years. It is co-sponsored by the Health Advocacy Program at Sarah lawrence College (that has had faculty and students working with members of this community) and the Brooklyn Law School. It is free.



Subject: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION  Sick and Tired: Leveraging Law to Facilitate Citizen Epidemiology



Roundtable Discussion:

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired:

Leveraging Law to Facilitate Citizen Epidemiology



Monday, February 10, 2014

1:00 – 5:00 pm



RSVP online: www.brooklaw.edu/healthpgm<http://brooklaw.imodules.com/redirect.aspx?linkID=7952&eid=48269>

before Thursday, February 6, 2014



Location

Brooklyn Law School

Subotnick Center

250 Joralemon Street

Brooklyn, NY

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Co-Sponsors

Brooklyn Law School’s Center for Health, Science and Public Policy<http://brooklaw.imodules.com/redirect.aspx?linkID=7950&eid=48269>

Graduate Program in Health Advocacy at Sarah Lawrence College<http://brooklaw.imodules.com/redirect.aspx?linkID=7949&eid=48269>



About the Program

The discussion will focus on how community residents (that is, citizens of a place) who are experiencing health effects from industrial toxins can document exposures and hold industrial polluters accountable. Topics will be drawn from the experience of organizations such as Mossville Environmental Action Now, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, and other groups. The discussion will address the meaning of public health protection; the effects on communities when it is withheld; the use of epidemiological research and other public health tools; and, how community residents can create alternative public health research strategies and use them in legal, media, and community-organizing campaigns—especially those focused on industries such as oil refining and chemical processing.



The program’s goal is to share knowledge and tactics that benefit the work of environmental justice organizing in the United States.



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For More Information Contact:



BLS Office of External Affairs

250 Joralemon Street

Brooklyn, NY 11201

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