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October 23, 2024

Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, MPH will give a seminar at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health titled "The US Presidential Election of 2024 Is a Public Health Emergency" More information is available here.

October 15, 2024

Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, MPH will give a lecture at the University of Oaklahoma titled "Why Epidemiology Should Have Been Invented in China But Wasn't." More information is available here.

October 15, 2024

Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, MPH will give the Hudson Fellows in Public Health Symposium on "Becoming Population Thinkers: A Brief History of the Public Health Approach" at University of Oklahoma. More information is available here.

May 8-9, 2024

Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH, will chair a meeting of the Federal Department of Labor’s Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health (EEOICPA) in Oak Ridge, TN.

April 29, 2024

Sherry Baron, MD, DrPH, and Zoey Laskaris, PhD published A Price Too High: Injury and Assault among Delivery Workers in New York City in the Journal of Urban Health. The study has been featured on Gothamist and Drive Time with Michael Wallace.

April 19, 2024

Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, will co-host a workshop on Journal Article Publishing as a part of the CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program.

April 19, 2024

Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH, will present “Screening Workers for Occupational Lung Cancer: An Unprecedented Opportunity” at the Update in Occupational and Environmental Medicine conference, sponsored by Northwell Health at Lenox Hill Hospital.

April 12, 2024

Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, will participate in the Center for Health and Law's Annual Conference on the topic of "The Future of Health Equity After the End of Affirmative Action."

June 27, 2023

Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH will present “Failure of annual low-dose CT scanning to detect early malignant mesothelioma in an occupational cohort” as part of Workshop 8 at the 16th International Conference of the International Mesothelioma Group.

February 15, 2023

Zoey Laskaris, PhD, will speak at the NYCOSH hosted "Long Covid & Workers Compensation Forum" at Mt. Sinai. Registration is available here.

September 17, 2022

Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH, will present "Lung Cancer Screening Update 2022" as part of the 17th Annual International Asbestos Awareness and Prevention Virtual Conference

September 10, 2022

Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH, will present "Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment" as part of the 2022 Dr. Deborah Brathwaite Annual Cancer Symposium.

July 26, 2022

Ana Maria Carmen Ilie, PhD and Holger Eisl, Phd have published "Air pollution exposure assessment at schools and playgrounds in Williamsburg Brooklyn NYC, with a view to developing a set of policy solutions" from their work in community based participatory research.

May 2, 2022

Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH, will participate on the "Department of Energy's Former Worker Program: 25+ Years of Medical Surveillance, Screening and Scientific Discovery" panel as part of the 2022 American Occupational Health Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.

April 11, 2022

Isabel Cuervo, PhD, will present "Safe and Just Cleaners Research Study" including findings from 2 surveys prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic with household cleaners, for the Macaulay Honors College Seminar at Queens College.

February 26, 2022

Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, will participate in a panel, "Learning from the Past: Black Panthers as Health Advocates" as part of the Harvard Black Health Matters Conference.

February 2, 2022

Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, will be the keynote speaker at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy's February Virtual Forum on Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

November 12, 2021

Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, will give a seminar "From HIV to COVID-19: How Pandemics Impact Epidemiologic Methods" for Oregon State University's College of Public Health and Human Science.

October 19, 2021

Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH published an Op-Ed, "Call it a weakly testing option: COVID vaccine mandates with a weekly testing option don’t do enough to stop the virus" in the New York Daily News.

October 13, 2021

Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, will moderate "A Conversation about Climate and Food" as part of the Centennial Distinguished Speakers Series at Mailman School of Public Health.

October 5, 2021

Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will speak on COVID Vaccines to the staff of the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers.

September 30, 2021

Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will give a presentation on COVID-19 Testing for the CUNY Professional Staff Congress.

September 22, 2021

Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will present on COVID-19 and Vaccines for the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers.

September 18, 2021

Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will give a presentation "Lung Cancer Screening: Update" at the Annual Conference of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization.

September 9, 2021

Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will moderate a panel on 9/11 Health at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

September 8, 2021

Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will present on COVID-19 Testing for National Union Occupational Health Staff.

July 30, 2021

Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will present on COVID-19 and Vaccines during a Town Hall sponsored by the United Steelworkers.

June 26, 2021

Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will present "Screening Workers at High Risk for Lung Cancer" at the Lung Cancer Screening Conference hosted by the Rescue Lung Society.

April 28, 2021

Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will present on COVID-19 and Vaccines to faculty and staff at the Commoner Center at Queens College.

March 15, 2021

Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will present on COVID-19 and Vaccines for the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers.

March 9, 2021

Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will give a presentation on COVID-19 and Vaccines during a Town Hall sponsored by the United Steelworkers.

February 9, 2021

Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH will provide an update on COVID-19 and Vaccines to the Health and Safety Committee of the AFL-CIO Executive Board.

January 25, 2021

Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH, will present as part of the "USW Health Care Workers Council Townhall on Vaccinations" webinar held by the United Steel Workers Tony Mazzocchi Center

January 25, 2021

Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH, will be a panelist on the "COVID-19 Vaccine Issues for the Union Lawyer" webinar organized by AFL-CIO's Union Lawyer Alliance.

November 2, 2020

Alfredo Morabia, PhD, MPH, will give a keynote speech "Covid-19: time to reinvent public health (and why Munich should show the way)" for the Winter Opening Ceremony at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.      

September 25, 2020

Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH, and Brittany Dickens wrote an op-ed, Our words say essential; our actions, expendable, for for the New York Daily News.

April 3, 2020

Sherry Baron, MD and Isabel Cuervo,PhD will join Make the Road staff to conduct a Facebook Live webinar “Cómo Proteger Su Salud como Trabajadorxs Domésticxs Durante COVID” (How to Protect your Health as Domestic Workers during COVID).

April 1, 2020

Sherry Baron, in partnership with the Labor Occupational Health Program at University of California, Berkeley, will conduct a 3-part series of virtual workshops, “Protecting Domestic Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic”

March 13, 2020

Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH, wrote an op-ed for Crain's New York titled Gaps in Health Care Make Us All Vulnerable.

February 4, 2020

Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH, will present "Screening for Lung Cancer in the Workplace: An Unprecedented Opportunity" at the ORCHSE Strategies Corporate Health Directors Network Meeting. The event is cosponsored by The John Hopkins Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health.

Location: Arlington, VA

January 28, 2020

Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH, will chair the next meeting of the DEEOIC Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health.

January 23, 2020

At the Department of Energy Former Worker Medical Screening Program Biannual Meeting, Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH, will present on Lung Cancer Screening and the DOL Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health.

December 10, 2019

Holger Eisl, PhD and Ana Maira Carmen IIie, PhD will present "Air Quality Citizen Science Research Project in Williamsburg, NYC" to the Fall 2019 meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Location: San Francisco, CA

November 14-15, 2019

Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH will give a talk on "Screening Workers, a High Lung Cancer Risk Population" as part of the Screening Eligibility session at the Go2 Foundation's 2019 Lung Cancer Screening and Care Conference.

Location: Washington, DC

November 11, 2019

Alfredo Morabia, PhD, MPH, will give a talk on "What's happening in Public Health? A year review of the AJPH" at Tulane University.

Location: New Orleans, LA

November 4-5, 2019

Alfredo Morabia, PhD, MPH, will moderate several sessions at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting in Philadelphia. "The Future of Public Health Publishing" and "Reparations: The Public Health Perspective 400 Years Since Jamestown" take place on November 4th. On November 5th, he will moderate "Vaccines: Information, Misinformation and Disinformation."

Location: Philadelphia, PA

September 10, 2019

Amita Toprani, MD, MPH, from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Bureau of Environmental Disease and Injury Prevention, will give a seminar at the Barry Commoner Center titled "Occupational Health at the NYC Health Department."

Location: Barry Commoner Center

September 6, 2019

Holger Eisl, PhD, is a co-author of "Field testing a low-cost passive aerosol sampler for long-term measurement of ambient PM2.5 concentrations and particle composition" in the November 2019 edition of Atmospheric Environment.

July 23, 2019

Molly Remch, an MSPH and PhD student in Epidemiology at University of North Carolina, will give a seminar titled "Clinical and Laboratory Adverse Events After Initiation of Integrate Strand Transfer Inhibitors for HIV Treatment."

Location: Barry Commoner Center

July 18, 2019

Homero Harari, PhD, will give a seminar at the Barry Commoner Center titled "The Exposome Concept In Occupational Health."

Location: Barry Commoner Center

June 11, 2019

Alfredo Morabia, PhD, MPH, will give a guest presentation for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. The subject will be "What's Going on in Public Health? A Year in Review of the AJPH"

Location: Johns Hopkins University, Maryland

June 10, 2019

Isabel Cuervo, PhD will teach a workshop for the American Evaluation Association Summer Institute titled "Design Thinking for User-Centric Stakeholder Engagment in Evaluation."

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

May 23, 2019

Mary Beth Terry, PhD, will give a guest presentation on "Why (Descriptive) Epidemiology Will Always Be Needed...On Trends, Assumptions, and New Directions."

Location: Barry Commoner Center for Health and Environment, Queens College

April 24, 2019

Alfredo Morabia, PhD, MPH, will give a guest seminar for Ohio State University College of Public Health titled "What's Going on in Public Health? A Year in Review of the AJPH"

Location: Ohio State University

April 18, 2019

Zoey Laskaris, MPH will give a guest seminar on "Derivation of Time-Activity Data Using Wearable Cameras and Measures of Personal Inhalation Exposure Among Workers at an Informal Electronic-Waste Recovery Site in Ghana"

Location: Barry Commoner Center for Health and Environment, Queens College

April 18, 2019

Isabel Cuervo, PhD will give a guest lecture for the University of Saint Joseph titled "Design Thinking for Culturally Responsive Evaluation: A Framework."

Location: University of Saint Joseph, Connecticut

April 6, 2019

Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH, will receive The Iriving Selikoff Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization during their 2019 Awareness and Prevention Conference.

Location: Washington DC

April 3, 2019

Alfredo Morabia, PhD, MPH, will speak at a conference about the special section in the March issue of the American Journal of Public Health, titled "Finding Common Ground: Partnerships in Religion and Public Health." A stream will be available here.

Location: Emory University

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