PHC Event – Exposing Forever Chemicals: PFAS Contamination in Maine

能力: 角色 & 责任,值 & 道德

Chemical contamination has been detected at more than 50 farms across Maine. These ‘forever’ chemicals, known as PFAS, pose many risks to human health. While used for decades in numerous household products, these chemicals do not break down and thus accumulate in our environment and our bodies. A panel of experts will discuss these challenges, 以及潜在的解决方案, 从政策, 农业, and economic perspectives, demonstrating the roles that 医疗保健 professionals, 知情的公民, 支持者可以玩.

Participation can be applied toward students’ IP Honors Distinction.

缩放: http://一个.变焦.我们/ j / 94859046414
转播画面: 一个.edu/live (仅查看)

与主持人见面:

艾伦·斯特恩·格里斯沃尔德 was named Vice President & Deputy Director of MFT in May 2022. 以前, Ellen oversaw MFT’s state, federal and municipal policy work and research projects as the Policy and 研究 Director. 整整八年, Ellen worked as a federal energy regulatory attorney in Washington, DC, working on the development of energy policy in Congress and advising clients on energy and environmental regulatory requirements. But then Ellen’s passion for agriculture and food policy – and its implications for farmers, 环境, and public health – led her to pursue a new career focused on food and farming in Maine. 她获得了学士学位。.M. in Food and Agriculture Law from Vermont Law School, her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, and her BA in Public Policy from Brown University. Ellen loves exploring Maine’s beaches, forests, and farms with her husband and two daughters.

玛利亚姆塔勒布 他在外务省工作, where she provides direct farmer support and manages the PFAS emergency fund in collaboration with Maine Farmland Trust. She has been a farmworker, 农场经理, and farm educator on both urban and rural farms across the northeast. 她得了B.A. 用英语 & Sustainable Food and Farming from the University of Massachusetts and a Ph.D. from Penn State in the ecology and sociology of invasive species.

参议员 亨利Ingwersen represents the people of Senate District 32, including Biddeford, Arundel, Dayton, Hollis, and Lyman. He serves as Chair of the Agriculture, 保护, and Forestry Committee and is a member of the 健康 and Human Services Committee. He lives on an old dairy farm in Arundel, where he keeps bees with his partner Christine. He has three amazing daughters and twelve very lively grandchildren, all living close by in Maine.

Presented in collaboration with: UNE Planetary 健康 Council (PHC), UNE Center to Advance Interprofessional Education and Practice (CAIEP, 以前测测)

"I think it was extremely valuable to have panelists that came from different disciplines who explained their thoughts and knowledge about climate change through statistics, 医疗保健, 还有艺术展示."
– UNE College of 整骨疗法的医学 student, at the 'Solve Climate by 2030: Climate Change in the Classroom & Beyond’ interprofessional event, March 29, 2023