Monday, October 15
7:30 pm
McManus Room
Dr. Philip Landrigan, renowned expert on environmental health and pediatrics, will speak about the effects that the enviornment has on children. He has been a member of the faculty of Mount Sinai School of Medicine since 1985 and Chairman of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine since 1990.
Mount Sinai's Department of Community and Preventive Medicine is renowned for its work in children's environmental health, occupational medicine, epidemiologic research, and disease prevention. Department Chair Dr. Philip Landrigan and his team of medical researchers are uniquely qualified to identify environmental hazards and protect the health of our children.
Dr. Landrigan is an international leader in public health and preventive medicine. His research helped catalyze the U.S. government's phase-out of lead from gasoline and paint beginning in 1976. Dr. Landrigan chaired a National Academy of Sciences Committee on Pesticides and Children's
Health, whose report secured passage of the major federal pesticide law in the United States, the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996. This is the first federal environmental law to contain specific protections for infants and children. His work as Senior Advisor to the Environmental Protection Agency was instrumental in helping to establish the EPA's Offi ce of Children's Health Protection.
