Long-term Patterns of Extreme Weather: Cumulative Health Impacts and Nature-based Adaptation

Presenter: Ray Yeager, PhD, University of Louisville

Dr. Yeager is a health geographer focused on research needed for building healthier urban environments. His research is centered on the roles of urban contexts, greenspaces, and climate change interactions to influence cardiometabolic health. At the University of Louisville Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, he leads geospatial approaches that link cohort data, remote sensing, environmental monitoring, and neighborhood contexts to quantify exposure–health pathways and guide implementation. Beyond research, he works with organizations including The Nature Conservancy, the Arbor Day Foundation, and the U.S. Forest Service to translate scientific findings into effective policies and interventions. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, National Institutes of Health Climate Change and Health Research Coordinating Center Community of Practice, and International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) where he serves on the ISEE Communications Committee and chairs the ISEE North America Chapter Policy Committee.

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The Human Exposome and Future Health

Presenter: Dean Jones, PhD, Emory University

Dean P. Jones, Ph.D, is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory at Emory University. He has formal training in nutrition, chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular toxicology, and more than 40 years directing an academic research program on nutritional biochemistry, redox biology and human health. Over the past decade, he advanced the use of ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry for high-throughput metabolomics and, through collaborative research, has applied this to a broad range of human exposome research. This research established methods to simultaneously measure metabolites in most metabolic pathways, as well as thousands of environmental chemicals, dietary, microbiome and related metabolites, in human plasma and urine. Through development of advanced computational methods, these approaches now provide affordable platforms for the human exposome, precision nutrition and medicine, and biomonitoring of diet, dietary supplements, personal use products and environmental chemical exposures. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed research articles and these papers have been cited more than 80,000 times.

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Neurology and the Environment - an Epidemiological Approach

Presenter: Holly Elser, MD, PhD, MPH, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Holly Elser, MD, PhD, MPH earned her MD at Stanford University and her PhD at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She completed neurology residency at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently a clinical fellow in the division of cognitive neurology at Penn. Dr. Elser's research focuses on the clinical and environmental determinants of neurological disease.

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Perinatal Health Impacts of Wildfire Smoke Exposure in Pregnancy

Presenter: Amy Padula, PhD, University of California-San Francisco

Amy Padula is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California San Francisco and Interim Director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment. She is an epidemiologist and was awarded the Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Science to investigate the impact of wildfires on preterm birth in California. She co-leads the research core for ECO-Health (Climate and Health P20) at UCSF.

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Heatwaves During Pregnancy and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Arizona

Presenter: Melissa Furlong, PhD, University of Arizona

Dr. Furlong is an environmental epidemiologist whose research focuses on how environmental and occupational exposures affect child neurodevelopment and long-term neurological health. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master's in Public Policy from Duke University, and a B.S. in Psychology and Neuroscience from Duke University, and is the recipient of an NIEHS Pathway to Independence (K99/R00) Award. Her work integrates big-data epidemiology with advanced -omics approaches, including metabolomics and epigenomics, and links large exposure databases with statewide health outcomes data such as Medicaid. She has studied pesticides, heat, PFAS, and air pollution, in association with long-term neurological and molecular outcomes.

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How Emerging Technologies and Policies can Quantify and Reduce Methane Emissions

Presenter: David Lyon, PhD, Environmental Defense Fund

David Lyon is a Senior Methane Scientist II at Environmental Defense Fund based in Longmont, Colorado. David earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Dynamics from the University of Arkansas and has researched methane emissions from the oil and gas industry for almost 15 years. David worked at EDF from 2012 to 2022, managing several research studies including the Barnett Shale and PermianMAP campaigns. In 2023, David joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a special advisor for the Methane Emissions Reduction Program. In 2024, David was a research scientist at the University of Texas Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis. David rejoined EDF in 2025 with a focus on defending science-based methane regulations and emissions reporting.

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Presenter: Emily S. Barrett, PhD, Rutgers University

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Wildfire Smoke Exposure Science: Challenges, Insights, and Future Directions

Presenter: Diana Rohlman, PhD, Oregon State University

Dr. Diana Rohlman is an Associate Professor (Sr. Researcher) in the Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology at Oregon State University (OSU). She leads the Community Engagement Cores for the Pacific Northwest Center for Translational Environmental Health Research and the OSU Superfund Research Center. Her research lies in the nexus of environmental health, exposure science, and research translation, with a focus on enhancing public understanding of environmental health risks. She collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to address complex challenges—like chemical exposures from disasters and the health effects of air pollution—using community-engaged research approaches that ensure research is responsive to the needs of impacted communities. Her lab is committed to the ethical report-back of research results (RBRR), connecting research results with actionable exposure reduction and mitigation efforts.

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People, Place and Partnership: Advancing Climate Resilience in Seattle's Duwamish River Valley

Presenter: Nicole Errett, PhD, University of Washington

Dr. Nicole Errett is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Director of the Center for Disaster Resilient Communities at the University of Washington. Dr. Errett's research focuses on the development, implementation and health impacts of policies and programs that aim to build resilience in the context of public health emergencies, disasters, and climate change. She works closely with public health and emergency response practitioners on policy-relevant research on disasters, climate, and health.

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Presenter: Manish Arora, PhD, Mount Sinai

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When Extreme Weather Disrupts Cancer Care

Presenter: Stacy Stanifer, PhD, University of Kentucky

Stacy Stanifer, PhD, APRN, AOCNS® is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, and Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Nursing. Dr. Stanifer's research examines how extreme weather events disrupt cancer care and strives to discover innovative methods of creating resilient cancer programs that can plan, prepare, respond, and adapt to extreme weather-related threats. Dr. Stanifer also leads community-engaged and citizen science initiatives aimed at reducing cancer risk by addressing environmental exposures, particularly radon, the second leading cause of lung cancer. Dr. Stanifer is a member of the UK Markey Cancer Center Cancer Prevention and Control Group, co-leads the Community Engagement Core of the UK Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences, serves on the research board of the Indoor Environments Association, is President of the Bluegrass Oncology Nursing Society, and represents public health on the Kentucky Board of Radon Safety.

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Presenter: Gen Merideth, MD, Cornell University

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