WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.845 --> 00:00:05.448 - Hello everybody welcome, 2 00:00:05.448 --> 00:00:08.150 we're gonna give it just a second for everyone to get set up 3 00:00:08.150 --> 00:00:10.150 and then we will get started here today. 4 00:00:17.870 --> 00:00:20.180 Right, it looks like most are connected to the audio, 5 00:00:20.180 --> 00:00:22.982 so I welcome you all thank you for joining us, 6 00:00:22.982 --> 00:00:25.691 my name is Becca Melnick. 7 00:00:25.691 --> 00:00:27.254 I'm the associate director of admissions, 8 00:00:27.254 --> 00:00:28.330 here at the Yale School of Public Health. 9 00:00:28.330 --> 00:00:30.610 I recognize many names, I've seen you all 10 00:00:30.610 --> 00:00:32.070 on events earlier this week, 11 00:00:32.070 --> 00:00:34.730 and I've conversed with a lot of you throughout the process 12 00:00:34.730 --> 00:00:36.962 so, thank you for joining us today, 13 00:00:36.962 --> 00:00:41.310 this session for our Executive MPH Virtual Open House, 14 00:00:41.310 --> 00:00:43.528 is focused on the Environmental Health Sciences Track, 15 00:00:43.528 --> 00:00:46.100 as hopefully many of you have seen, 16 00:00:46.100 --> 00:00:48.014 we've had other events throughout this week, 17 00:00:48.014 --> 00:00:51.270 a general program overview, 18 00:00:51.270 --> 00:00:54.352 sessions for other tracks specifically, 19 00:00:54.352 --> 00:00:56.520 and we'll be having other events for financial aid careers, 20 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:58.930 and the intensives leader in the week. 21 00:00:58.930 --> 00:01:03.010 So with that, I will turn it over to Yong Zhou, 22 00:01:03.010 --> 00:01:04.550 who's the track coordinator, 23 00:01:04.550 --> 00:01:06.980 to talk a little bit more about our EHS Track. 24 00:01:06.980 --> 00:01:08.270 And we'll just say that, 25 00:01:08.270 --> 00:01:10.240 we want this to be interactive and helpful for you, 26 00:01:10.240 --> 00:01:12.328 so please feel free to ask questions that you have as we go. 27 00:01:12.328 --> 00:01:16.411 - Thank you, Becca and everyone joining us today, 28 00:01:26.833 --> 00:01:27.666 so this is a brief overview 29 00:01:30.416 --> 00:01:31.890 about Environmental Health Sciences Track. 30 00:01:31.890 --> 00:01:32.723 That's the first from page. 31 00:01:32.723 --> 00:01:34.797 So just a little bit about myself, 32 00:01:34.797 --> 00:01:39.170 My name, Yong Zhou, I've PhD in Molecular Biology, 33 00:01:39.170 --> 00:01:42.470 currently I'm Associate Professor of Epidemiology, 34 00:01:42.470 --> 00:01:45.520 in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, 35 00:01:45.520 --> 00:01:48.720 So my research area is in the field of 36 00:01:50.025 --> 00:01:50.893 molecular cancer epidemiology. 37 00:01:53.589 --> 00:01:55.485 Basically dealing with biomarker, 38 00:01:55.485 --> 00:01:59.073 or social weights, environmental exposures 39 00:01:59.073 --> 00:01:59.906 and the disease progression disease, CLPD outage, 40 00:02:01.995 --> 00:02:03.765 so from molecular perspective, 41 00:02:03.765 --> 00:02:05.251 and Almeida based the perspective. 42 00:02:05.251 --> 00:02:07.485 This is my research area. 43 00:02:07.485 --> 00:02:10.119 And research disease focused on cancer, 44 00:02:10.119 --> 00:02:12.233 so this is my email, and cellular phone number, 45 00:02:14.277 --> 00:02:16.021 we have another slide, 46 00:02:16.021 --> 00:02:16.854 talking about my my role in this program, 47 00:02:24.837 --> 00:02:27.405 this is my contacting for 48 00:02:27.405 --> 00:02:28.460 so you want me to fail sciences that become one 49 00:02:29.505 --> 00:02:31.260 of the dominant themes of the 21st century 50 00:02:31.260 --> 00:02:35.969 this century because of the growing global population 51 00:02:35.969 --> 00:02:40.969 and our limited resources and the strain ecosystem 52 00:02:41.294 --> 00:02:44.187 monetary challenges require aware 53 00:02:44.187 --> 00:02:47.985 train workforce and possessed the scientific skills. 54 00:02:47.985 --> 00:02:51.237 And then I think the tours to come from the emerging stress. 55 00:02:51.237 --> 00:02:53.175 So we need to learn something, but again 56 00:02:53.175 --> 00:02:54.612 that's the purpose of the cost we design to 57 00:02:54.612 --> 00:02:59.612 to fit the requirement off of these challenges 58 00:03:02.411 --> 00:03:05.342 because through important the national Institute 59 00:03:05.342 --> 00:03:09.680 of environmental health sciences, and yet 60 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:11.217 as one of the major Institute 61 00:03:11.217 --> 00:03:14.621 NIH and also world health organization WHO 62 00:03:14.621 --> 00:03:18.087 have launched collaborating center 63 00:03:18.087 --> 00:03:23.030 to investigate many environmental health science, 64 00:03:23.030 --> 00:03:24.780 concerns, for example 65 00:03:26.143 --> 00:03:27.180 on our children's environmental health science 66 00:03:27.180 --> 00:03:28.870 that could be impacted 67 00:03:29.883 --> 00:03:32.080 by environmental exposures and the Columbia changes and the 68 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:35.787 and the human health and the indoor air pollutions 69 00:03:35.787 --> 00:03:37.675 including other productions from the water 70 00:03:37.675 --> 00:03:42.675 or the pollution is also so that's the important 71 00:03:42.786 --> 00:03:44.970 off the mountain fail sciences, probably. 72 00:03:44.970 --> 00:03:48.359 That's the one for the reason you, you take the front 73 00:03:48.359 --> 00:03:52.420 of the house to check, but this is the three calls us. 74 00:03:52.420 --> 00:03:54.120 We put together. 75 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:58.360 It's very unique accurately for 12 calls. 76 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:01.930 So we combine to our professors 77 00:04:01.930 --> 00:04:06.920 their expertise to enhance the content 78 00:04:06.920 --> 00:04:09.030 and health of these calls us, we them with the first one 79 00:04:09.030 --> 00:04:12.133 we first caused you to support your assessment. 80 00:04:12.133 --> 00:04:17.133 So we all exposed to different chemical, biological, 81 00:04:18.050 --> 00:04:22.961 physiological, environmental agents doing our daily life. 82 00:04:22.961 --> 00:04:25.172 But these calls were provided tours 83 00:04:25.172 --> 00:04:27.841 to assess environmental stressor 84 00:04:27.841 --> 00:04:30.410 in conquer the indoor or outdoor 85 00:04:30.410 --> 00:04:32.290 and occupational environment. 86 00:04:32.290 --> 00:04:35.580 And there's review masters for evaluating the quantitative 87 00:04:35.580 --> 00:04:38.906 of the exposure data for you. 88 00:04:38.906 --> 00:04:42.472 Then pull the air pollution, the water contamination. 89 00:04:42.472 --> 00:04:45.140 So what's the best way to assess them 90 00:04:45.140 --> 00:04:48.972 and how to collect the quality data for research purpose. 91 00:04:48.972 --> 00:04:51.530 I think these are the first the costs 92 00:04:52.470 --> 00:04:55.540 that's given the concept is that a lot 93 00:04:55.540 --> 00:04:59.852 of diseases associated with you can support you 94 00:04:59.852 --> 00:05:02.004 but this is the pure epidemiological approach. 95 00:05:02.004 --> 00:05:04.600 We've tried to find association 96 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:06.952 between exposure and the disease or other Phil's outcomes 97 00:05:06.952 --> 00:05:10.290 making a connection 98 00:05:10.290 --> 00:05:14.760 by the water tours available for exposure assessment 99 00:05:14.760 --> 00:05:17.060 but still then we can say the how to apply the 100 00:05:18.687 --> 00:05:21.040 latest epidemiological and toxicological research 101 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:22.840 to their own work and the project. 102 00:05:22.840 --> 00:05:26.550 So after this course, that's the initial part. 103 00:05:26.550 --> 00:05:31.060 So we have two professors teaching. 104 00:05:31.060 --> 00:05:33.960 These costs, professor Nico diesel. 105 00:05:33.960 --> 00:05:37.280 She is a pro, especially the professor I would department. 106 00:05:37.280 --> 00:05:39.920 So her expertise is in the field 107 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:42.760 of risk assessment and the methodology methodology. 108 00:05:42.760 --> 00:05:47.307 And also we have professor crystal plate. 109 00:05:47.307 --> 00:05:52.307 Her expertise is in the chemical and environmental engineer 110 00:05:53.420 --> 00:05:58.150 and she developed aware wearable Ben Reese 111 00:05:58.150 --> 00:06:02.690 the ban to collect the environmental exposures 112 00:06:02.690 --> 00:06:03.970 then analyze this. 113 00:06:03.970 --> 00:06:06.180 I mean the deaf people could carry this again 114 00:06:06.180 --> 00:06:07.900 individualize the exposure data. 115 00:06:07.900 --> 00:06:12.900 So they provide both of them were providing expertise 116 00:06:12.960 --> 00:06:17.960 for the methodology and the four data connecting real data 117 00:06:19.477 --> 00:06:20.833 to environmental exposures. 118 00:06:22.990 --> 00:06:26.325 That's the first, first cost we put together. 119 00:06:26.325 --> 00:06:29.966 But if we consider the association 120 00:06:29.966 --> 00:06:33.277 between exposure and the disease 121 00:06:33.277 --> 00:06:35.369 so what's in the middle, that's the black box. 122 00:06:35.369 --> 00:06:39.214 So the second the cost will help us to 123 00:06:39.214 --> 00:06:40.850 break this black box to see what specific hazard 124 00:06:40.850 --> 00:06:44.726 or exposure agents in this black box that could 125 00:06:44.726 --> 00:06:49.726 help us explain the observed association 126 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:56.122 between exposure and entities. 127 00:06:56.122 --> 00:07:00.420 So I learned the foundation for understanding our role 128 00:07:00.420 --> 00:07:04.123 of toxic cottage in public health protection was a focus 129 00:07:04.123 --> 00:07:07.690 on 21st century techniques 130 00:07:07.690 --> 00:07:11.240 and the challenges that the new technology students learn 131 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:14.857 for hazard identification, but simply why be introduced 132 00:07:14.857 --> 00:07:18.160 to basic principles of toxicology. 133 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:21.500 If we can have a dose response mechanisms of toxicity 134 00:07:21.500 --> 00:07:24.324 and the standard of defense instead of a response 135 00:07:24.324 --> 00:07:27.790 but these all in this black box 136 00:07:27.790 --> 00:07:31.230 between exposure and the human diseases 137 00:07:31.230 --> 00:07:33.743 and then they move on to advanced topics 138 00:07:33.743 --> 00:07:37.690 then how we use these tours for study early life 139 00:07:37.690 --> 00:07:40.290 or one a bit at a low level exposure 140 00:07:40.290 --> 00:07:42.928 to mixtures and the system biology approaches 141 00:07:42.928 --> 00:07:45.430 and the green chemistry solutions 142 00:07:45.430 --> 00:07:49.160 and the problem presented by chemicals that are common 143 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:52.223 in consumer products and the building environment. 144 00:07:53.960 --> 00:07:56.820 So Wells together to offer our professors 145 00:07:56.820 --> 00:08:00.485 the teachers cost professional part. 146 00:08:00.485 --> 00:08:01.573 And that's another thing. 147 00:08:04.140 --> 00:08:06.838 Yes, Hey, here's the final off green chemistry 148 00:08:06.838 --> 00:08:08.650 but probably you all know what's green chemistry. 149 00:08:08.650 --> 00:08:11.892 Lastly, we build our product to use in one little friend 150 00:08:11.892 --> 00:08:13.823 that chemical, then you run with a friend today. 151 00:08:13.823 --> 00:08:17.360 Then now it's just with our environment. 152 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:18.842 We also have our profile. 153 00:08:18.842 --> 00:08:23.842 I will department here, professor I met his name was Ella. 154 00:08:28.870 --> 00:08:31.030 He's the senior toxicologist. 155 00:08:31.030 --> 00:08:33.541 I mean with expertise in this field 156 00:08:33.541 --> 00:08:35.270 the leading toxicologist in the field. 157 00:08:35.270 --> 00:08:40.110 So both of them will provide the fundamental principles 158 00:08:41.410 --> 00:08:43.940 of the different tours that students can use. 159 00:08:43.940 --> 00:08:48.215 People can use for hazard identification, but these 160 00:08:48.215 --> 00:08:50.903 the second and cost be able to 161 00:08:50.903 --> 00:08:53.761 upon the first one of the exposure and the disease Carnation 162 00:08:53.761 --> 00:08:58.761 and the water towards can use to identify specific hazard 163 00:08:58.790 --> 00:09:00.673 between exposure and the disease. 164 00:09:06.940 --> 00:09:10.071 So the third cost we put together that risk assessment 165 00:09:10.071 --> 00:09:14.520 and the policy, these calls were introduced the 166 00:09:14.520 --> 00:09:16.810 methodology interpretation application 167 00:09:16.810 --> 00:09:19.070 on the communication surrounding the use 168 00:09:19.070 --> 00:09:21.510 of visit assessment in poppy house. 169 00:09:21.510 --> 00:09:23.560 So students were gaining an understanding 170 00:09:23.560 --> 00:09:25.300 of how toxicology information 171 00:09:25.300 --> 00:09:28.230 on hotter than a dose response is incorporated. 172 00:09:28.230 --> 00:09:31.460 We exposing information to predict the house risk 173 00:09:31.460 --> 00:09:34.587 for why the variety of populations and also students 174 00:09:34.587 --> 00:09:36.920 the bathroom visit assessment 175 00:09:36.920 --> 00:09:39.263 for real world exposure issues. 176 00:09:41.810 --> 00:09:45.080 So after we know about specific exposures 177 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:47.990 and the know about some detailed chemical 178 00:09:47.990 --> 00:09:52.990 a hazard or Asian that could then could expose you and 179 00:09:54.310 --> 00:09:57.580 and the human population and the disease outcome. 180 00:09:57.580 --> 00:10:00.350 So the next job we should do is that what's 181 00:10:00.350 --> 00:10:03.900 the policy we should put together 182 00:10:03.900 --> 00:10:08.900 for policy decision making, but again, risk management 183 00:10:09.460 --> 00:10:12.776 also the policy maker to make decisions. 184 00:10:12.776 --> 00:10:15.700 So this work gave us some idea 185 00:10:15.700 --> 00:10:18.430 about what information we should have put together 186 00:10:18.430 --> 00:10:20.420 to present to the policy maker 187 00:10:20.420 --> 00:10:23.880 and the involved with the English risk of management and 188 00:10:24.750 --> 00:10:27.490 and the policy and public health policy. 189 00:10:27.490 --> 00:10:31.117 So we have professor Gary Ginsburg. 190 00:10:31.117 --> 00:10:34.070 So he's also the director of the center 191 00:10:34.070 --> 00:10:37.440 for environment health in New York state department 192 00:10:38.796 --> 00:10:40.517 of health, who he has tons of experience 193 00:10:40.517 --> 00:10:44.045 with policy environmental policy, and also how 194 00:10:44.045 --> 00:10:47.455 to interpret the data collected the farm research 195 00:10:47.455 --> 00:10:49.193 from different research. 196 00:10:50.418 --> 00:10:52.590 But most of the time we have to conduct a multiple 197 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:56.450 research project to confirm exposure 198 00:10:56.450 --> 00:11:00.090 and the disease relationship, the what information they 199 00:11:00.090 --> 00:11:02.990 what are important for the fullest policy makers. 200 00:11:02.990 --> 00:11:07.230 So these are these sweet calls us give a different 201 00:11:07.230 --> 00:11:09.790 perspective of how we approach environmental related 202 00:11:09.790 --> 00:11:11.243 to the issue. 203 00:11:13.819 --> 00:11:15.469 Okay I think firstly, these days. 204 00:11:22.800 --> 00:11:26.520 Okay in addition to these three courses 205 00:11:26.520 --> 00:11:31.520 but students can also get access to all our faculty members. 206 00:11:31.613 --> 00:11:35.170 I know that they also go to site visit. 207 00:11:35.170 --> 00:11:37.693 You can have in-person meeting. 208 00:11:37.693 --> 00:11:41.673 We saw were a faculty member, but you can always check 209 00:11:41.673 --> 00:11:46.673 out our website to identify the faculty with research issues 210 00:11:48.400 --> 00:11:51.760 or with resource areas that fit your interests, you fit. 211 00:11:51.760 --> 00:11:55.030 We are, you you're very welcome to contact them. 212 00:11:55.030 --> 00:11:57.470 The research expertise of our EHS faculty. 213 00:11:57.470 --> 00:11:59.657 It covers a number of few if we can, some off of them. 214 00:11:59.657 --> 00:12:01.603 And we are then at the end 215 00:12:01.603 --> 00:12:05.676 we already talked about that's the resource area 216 00:12:05.676 --> 00:12:07.754 of the course instructor framework. 217 00:12:07.754 --> 00:12:09.530 But in addition to those 218 00:12:09.530 --> 00:12:12.280 we have climate and energy impact on sales 219 00:12:13.487 --> 00:12:18.056 where people working on climate change and human health. 220 00:12:18.056 --> 00:12:19.940 We also have faculty member 221 00:12:19.940 --> 00:12:23.080 we expertise in developmental orange of human diseases. 222 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:25.313 So for early life exposures are so important 223 00:12:25.313 --> 00:12:29.342 that as a risk predictor for later life diseases 224 00:12:29.342 --> 00:12:34.342 and the green chemistry, we already talk about understanding 225 00:12:35.300 --> 00:12:37.817 and overcoming environmental health disparities. 226 00:12:37.817 --> 00:12:42.817 We have also people work on novel approaches 227 00:12:42.870 --> 00:12:45.670 to assessing environmental exposures and early biomarker 228 00:12:47.256 --> 00:12:49.960 of effect the systematic system biology approaches. 229 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:52.213 That's why they use among seven welfare. 230 00:12:53.941 --> 00:12:55.423 So we're all following faculty groups. 231 00:12:56.750 --> 00:13:00.211 And also we use this tours to apply these tours 232 00:13:00.211 --> 00:13:02.830 in the major human diseases 233 00:13:02.830 --> 00:13:05.660 including cancer, heart disease 234 00:13:05.660 --> 00:13:08.863 and also these days than the Corona virus COVID-19. 235 00:13:14.863 --> 00:13:18.020 Okay, so during the pandemic, we have a lot of experience 236 00:13:18.020 --> 00:13:20.880 with online teaching, but also online research 237 00:13:21.930 --> 00:13:25.320 but you're well, very welcome to contact our faculty member 238 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:28.109 to see whether you want to participate in their 239 00:13:28.109 --> 00:13:32.480 or know more about the research, a specific topic 240 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:34.423 or get involved in their research. 241 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:37.300 Probably we can, we can develop something for you too. 242 00:13:37.300 --> 00:13:39.910 This would be working with it, gained some experience 243 00:13:39.910 --> 00:13:41.710 involved in a real research setting. 244 00:13:45.580 --> 00:13:48.190 So as a track quality, neither. 245 00:13:48.190 --> 00:13:52.410 So my though is to help support attract development 246 00:13:52.410 --> 00:13:53.860 and review, get feedback. 247 00:13:53.860 --> 00:13:56.240 Pharma student investigator, Rob, as a bridge 248 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:00.493 between a student and teaching faculty and we've 249 00:14:01.875 --> 00:14:05.330 cost evaluation, supporting instructors to improve 250 00:14:05.330 --> 00:14:07.860 with their counselors or the cover something you really need 251 00:14:07.860 --> 00:14:12.482 in also, I can provide a student academic 252 00:14:12.482 --> 00:14:14.560 and career mentoring for them. 253 00:14:14.560 --> 00:14:19.560 If you want to know more about the specific research 254 00:14:21.030 --> 00:14:25.240 topic can help you to connect to a wildfire faculty member. 255 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:28.420 And it's upon identification of capstone project 256 00:14:29.521 --> 00:14:31.860 before the research all fails Easters or 257 00:14:35.888 --> 00:14:37.170 for any project you are interested, I think we can help to 258 00:14:44.076 --> 00:14:46.568 to make the connections. 259 00:14:46.568 --> 00:14:47.668 So that very brief being sure that I'm sharing 260 00:14:47.668 --> 00:14:48.501 about you mom know how science says 261 00:14:49.810 --> 00:14:52.421 about the three courses we'll put together 262 00:14:52.421 --> 00:14:54.720 About other results. 263 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:59.720 Tonight is also our whole department is open to all for you 264 00:15:00.010 --> 00:15:02.583 and about my role as the coordinator. 265 00:15:03.507 --> 00:15:04.360 Thank you. 266 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:05.210 And any questions 267 00:15:30.800 --> 00:15:31.633 - Are there? 268 00:15:31.633 --> 00:15:33.172 No, no questions at all. 269 00:15:33.172 --> 00:15:34.740 This is, you know, for you all, any questions you have 270 00:15:34.740 --> 00:15:38.640 about the courses, the track, the kind of combination 271 00:15:38.640 --> 00:15:41.290 of courses with other tracks, anything that'll be helpful. 272 00:15:41.290 --> 00:15:44.390 And thank you, Reynolds are freezing the chat 273 00:15:44.390 --> 00:15:46.320 feel free to use the chat or raise hand 274 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:49.652 or just to kind of turn your camera or your mic on 275 00:15:49.652 --> 00:15:52.823 - This, off the slides so we could see each other. 276 00:15:56.450 --> 00:15:57.670 - So the question is 277 00:15:57.670 --> 00:16:01.973 are there tours provided to labs where work is performed? 278 00:16:01.973 --> 00:16:06.973 Not, I mean, from an emissions perspective, not really. 279 00:16:09.011 --> 00:16:11.671 We have a campus tour that will be posted online 280 00:16:11.671 --> 00:16:14.620 within the next probably two weeks. 281 00:16:14.620 --> 00:16:16.763 That does show a little bit 282 00:16:16.763 --> 00:16:20.060 of the inside of some of our labs, but there are hundreds 283 00:16:20.060 --> 00:16:23.930 of faculty research projects and labs on campus. 284 00:16:23.930 --> 00:16:26.843 It's hard to kind of capture them all in one sort of tour. 285 00:16:27.722 --> 00:16:30.940 And unfortunately at this point, campus is not open 286 00:16:30.940 --> 00:16:33.940 to external visitors, so we can't have kind of live tours 287 00:16:33.940 --> 00:16:36.720 but I don't know if there's kind of another 288 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:39.327 anything else you can think of that would be helpful 289 00:16:39.327 --> 00:16:42.040 for kind of tours of labs where work is performed. 290 00:16:42.040 --> 00:16:44.000 - Well, I know this, our professor Paul, 291 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:45.410 another test is here. 292 00:16:45.410 --> 00:16:48.501 I think Paul, do you have anything to add 293 00:16:48.501 --> 00:16:51.420 - Or a pleasing? 294 00:16:51.420 --> 00:16:52.440 Some of my apologies 295 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:55.550 I had a little trouble linking onto the zoom link. 296 00:16:55.550 --> 00:17:00.320 My, but I, I just wanted to say one thing specifically 297 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:05.320 about the, the tours that as, as we transition 298 00:17:06.370 --> 00:17:11.370 to increasingly opening up our, our labs, I'd be more 299 00:17:11.422 --> 00:17:16.080 than happy to engage people and, and coming through our 300 00:17:16.080 --> 00:17:20.823 our labs and, and trying to even do it virtually if you 301 00:17:20.823 --> 00:17:24.811 if you wish to contact me directly 302 00:17:24.811 --> 00:17:29.811 or through or through yarn or, or, or admissions. 303 00:17:30.650 --> 00:17:34.374 So I'm always happy to do whatever we can to 304 00:17:34.374 --> 00:17:36.730 give you a glimpse into the, the 305 00:17:36.730 --> 00:17:41.730 the real world, real world of, of our laboratories. 306 00:17:42.957 --> 00:17:45.110 There's something that I just wanted to add. 307 00:17:45.110 --> 00:17:49.173 If I, if I may professor Zhou, I just wanted to say 308 00:17:52.727 --> 00:17:53.890 I thought that the description of the 309 00:17:53.890 --> 00:17:56.794 of the program was, was really wonderful. 310 00:17:56.794 --> 00:17:58.922 And the only thing I'd add 311 00:17:58.922 --> 00:18:03.406 to it was that the way that this program was, was built 312 00:18:03.406 --> 00:18:07.662 the way that it thought through was thought 313 00:18:07.662 --> 00:18:11.530 through was to identify the essence of what a 314 00:18:11.530 --> 00:18:15.040 a student would want to know would need to 315 00:18:15.040 --> 00:18:19.492 know the essentials of exposure, hazard risk 316 00:18:19.492 --> 00:18:24.492 those things that are yeah, the, the, the distillation 317 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:29.390 of those key principles, those key fundamentals 318 00:18:29.390 --> 00:18:31.080 so that they can be applied. 319 00:18:31.080 --> 00:18:32.920 And then as we said, opening 320 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:35.290 up those other opportunities to interact 321 00:18:35.290 --> 00:18:38.191 with the wide range of faculties and resources at Yale. 322 00:18:38.191 --> 00:18:40.950 So that's what it is. 323 00:18:40.950 --> 00:18:43.040 It's, it's the essence 324 00:18:43.040 --> 00:18:45.290 of what you would want to know on this topic. 325 00:18:55.270 --> 00:18:57.071 - Okay. Thank you for that kind of continue to 326 00:18:57.071 --> 00:18:59.920 or additional information 327 00:18:59.920 --> 00:19:01.700 about the track that's really helpful 328 00:19:01.700 --> 00:19:04.356 and I'm glad you could join us as well 329 00:19:04.356 --> 00:19:06.530 so that students can meet as many faculty members 330 00:19:06.530 --> 00:19:09.372 and program team members as possible. 331 00:19:09.372 --> 00:19:12.133 Are there any other questions at this point? 332 00:19:13.428 --> 00:19:16.603 - Hi. 333 00:19:16.603 --> 00:19:18.172 - Hi. 334 00:19:18.172 --> 00:19:20.103 - Can you see me? 335 00:19:22.315 --> 00:19:26.180 Thank you so much for this wonderful presentation. 336 00:19:26.180 --> 00:19:31.180 I have a question about the first course in the track 337 00:19:31.900 --> 00:19:34.580 and I wanted to see if it's built 338 00:19:34.580 --> 00:19:39.393 on the elementary introductory epidemiology course. 339 00:19:44.360 --> 00:19:46.470 - I think there'll be some overlap 340 00:19:46.470 --> 00:19:49.480 some better concept of stay the same, right? 341 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:52.170 I mean, I think epi designed a pre-approach 342 00:19:52.170 --> 00:19:55.370 EPU protocols where the similar 343 00:19:55.370 --> 00:19:59.110 but the work to focused on your mental perspective. 344 00:19:59.110 --> 00:20:02.370 So how we use these tours for this assessment 345 00:20:02.370 --> 00:20:05.223 is going to be lying different epi design. 346 00:20:06.269 --> 00:20:09.190 I think that they do the overlap, but again 347 00:20:09.190 --> 00:20:11.040 the focus will be a little different. 348 00:20:15.057 --> 00:20:17.153 - Thank you so much. 349 00:20:33.727 --> 00:20:34.828 - Do you have any, I can. 350 00:20:34.828 --> 00:20:36.111 So there's another question to chat, Dr. 351 00:20:36.111 --> 00:20:39.263 can you speak more about your work on green chemistry? 352 00:20:41.090 --> 00:20:44.680 - Sure. I'm always happy to, I, you know, I talk so much 353 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:46.700 about green chemistry that people are usually 354 00:20:46.700 --> 00:20:49.720 asking not to talk so much on green chemistry. 355 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:53.292 So I'm always happy to accept that invitation. 356 00:20:53.292 --> 00:20:57.640 So for those of you who don't know what green chemistry is 357 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:02.640 it basically takes this concept of the substances that make 358 00:21:02.700 --> 00:21:05.840 up our society and our economy, everything that we see touch 359 00:21:05.840 --> 00:21:07.950 and feel pretty much as a chemical. 360 00:21:07.950 --> 00:21:12.950 So when we think about, Oh, a chemical is something special 361 00:21:13.681 --> 00:21:15.811 or specific and produced by the chemical industry. 362 00:21:15.811 --> 00:21:20.070 Now we're surrounded by chemicals and we know 363 00:21:20.070 --> 00:21:22.930 that chemicals have given us a tremendous amount 364 00:21:22.930 --> 00:21:25.780 of function, but we also know 365 00:21:25.780 --> 00:21:28.140 that they've brought about a tremendous amount 366 00:21:29.845 --> 00:21:32.040 of hazard and risk and a negative consequences. 367 00:21:32.040 --> 00:21:34.470 And so what green chemistry is all about 368 00:21:34.470 --> 00:21:39.310 in its essence is how do you maintain all of the function 369 00:21:39.310 --> 00:21:40.680 all of the performance, all 370 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:44.610 of the near technological miracles that chemicals 371 00:21:44.610 --> 00:21:46.170 and chemistry has given us 372 00:21:47.120 --> 00:21:50.060 while eliminating those adverse consequences. 373 00:21:50.060 --> 00:21:52.466 So carcinogens and neurotoxins 374 00:21:52.466 --> 00:21:56.737 endocrine disruption, environmental pollutants. 375 00:21:56.737 --> 00:21:59.340 And so it's all about the design 376 00:21:59.340 --> 00:22:02.130 of the next generation products and processes. 377 00:22:02.130 --> 00:22:04.680 And so we have a center for green chemistry 378 00:22:04.680 --> 00:22:08.370 green engineering here touches on a wide range 379 00:22:08.370 --> 00:22:10.189 of different applications of green chemistry 380 00:22:10.189 --> 00:22:15.189 and everything from energy to consumer products, cosmetics 381 00:22:15.600 --> 00:22:19.800 building materials, and architecture, and on and on. 382 00:22:19.800 --> 00:22:24.800 So as I, as you can tell, I could go on for a, well 383 00:22:25.270 --> 00:22:27.580 at least a whole semester about this, if, if you'd let me 384 00:22:27.580 --> 00:22:29.543 but I probably ought to stop there. 385 00:22:43.013 --> 00:22:44.480 - Any other questions 386 00:22:49.034 --> 00:22:50.970 - You know, as much as I said, I was going to stop 387 00:22:50.970 --> 00:22:53.830 I'm going to add one or two more sentences. 388 00:22:53.830 --> 00:22:57.900 So I get to co-teach the, the course on hazard. 389 00:22:57.900 --> 00:23:01.510 And we think about hazard perhaps too often 390 00:23:02.972 --> 00:23:04.892 as just the way things are. 391 00:23:04.892 --> 00:23:08.188 It's just the nature of things, but we dive into hazard 392 00:23:08.188 --> 00:23:12.270 not just understanding that things are hazardous 393 00:23:12.270 --> 00:23:14.979 but why they are hazardous the underlying physical 394 00:23:14.979 --> 00:23:19.230 chemical properties of what makes us substance hazardous 395 00:23:19.230 --> 00:23:22.443 what makes it allowed to get into our body. 396 00:23:22.443 --> 00:23:24.452 It would be in the adjusted cross 397 00:23:24.452 --> 00:23:26.620 membranes caused those kinds of problems. 398 00:23:26.620 --> 00:23:29.390 And we want to get that deep level understanding 399 00:23:29.390 --> 00:23:32.870 so we can design new things to be different. 400 00:23:32.870 --> 00:23:36.490 So that's why understanding hazard is so rather 401 00:23:36.490 --> 00:23:40.030 than just simply protecting ourselves with masks 402 00:23:40.030 --> 00:23:43.260 and respirators and personal protective gear and, and 403 00:23:43.260 --> 00:23:46.120 and saying always use in a well area. 404 00:23:46.120 --> 00:23:48.790 Instead, we can design things 405 00:23:48.790 --> 00:23:51.640 so that they are intrinsically less hazardous. 406 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:55.486 And so that's, that's the perspective that we bring to 407 00:23:55.486 --> 00:23:57.516 to that course and throughout the program. 408 00:23:57.516 --> 00:24:00.371 - I think that your work is a great example 409 00:24:00.371 --> 00:24:05.371 of really the interdisciplinary perspectives you get 410 00:24:06.104 --> 00:24:08.970 across the program here. 411 00:24:08.970 --> 00:24:12.240 I think, you know, that the EHS track and your work 412 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:15.730 in green chemistry really highlights how 413 00:24:15.730 --> 00:24:20.468 the different schools and programs at Yale crossover a lot. 414 00:24:20.468 --> 00:24:22.277 And you're able to kind of bring 415 00:24:22.277 --> 00:24:25.408 in expertise from different areas across university and 416 00:24:25.408 --> 00:24:29.370 and how that isn't, you know, really, I guess, evident 417 00:24:29.370 --> 00:24:32.760 in our on-campus program, but still a great opportunity 418 00:24:32.760 --> 00:24:35.106 within the executive MPH online, that you're still able 419 00:24:35.106 --> 00:24:37.895 as a student in the program to engage 420 00:24:37.895 --> 00:24:42.895 with experts and scholars in these really, you know 421 00:24:43.600 --> 00:24:46.630 interdisciplinary areas of public health work. 422 00:24:46.630 --> 00:24:49.490 So we're glad that you are a part of the track 423 00:24:49.490 --> 00:24:52.748 and I'm part of the program and really highlighting that 424 00:24:52.748 --> 00:24:55.790 that true benefit of our MPH and the executive program. 425 00:24:55.790 --> 00:24:57.830 - Yeah, go ahead. 426 00:24:57.830 --> 00:24:58.985 Go ahead. 427 00:24:58.985 --> 00:25:01.706 - I was just going to say, thanks for bringing that up 428 00:25:01.706 --> 00:25:03.320 because that interdisciplinarity is key 429 00:25:03.320 --> 00:25:06.521 because the way that the school 430 00:25:06.521 --> 00:25:09.650 of public health, you know, coordinates, collaborates 431 00:25:09.650 --> 00:25:12.900 and builds with whether it be the school of engineering 432 00:25:12.900 --> 00:25:15.100 the school of architecture, the school of environment 433 00:25:15.100 --> 00:25:18.220 especially there's so many interconnections 434 00:25:18.220 --> 00:25:20.010 in order to bring about all 435 00:25:20.010 --> 00:25:22.930 of those positive consequences for public health. 436 00:25:22.930 --> 00:25:26.943 And that's what this, this program really emphasizes. 437 00:25:28.587 --> 00:25:33.587 - Yeah. Just add to Paul's point that the, the hardest 438 00:25:33.850 --> 00:25:37.469 identification involve some basic mechanistic studies 439 00:25:37.469 --> 00:25:40.610 but you can look at it, exposure assessment. 440 00:25:40.610 --> 00:25:42.740 They only give us association 441 00:25:42.740 --> 00:25:46.040 but we do not know whether these are causal association 442 00:25:47.173 --> 00:25:51.870 or just association with all the causal effect. 443 00:25:51.870 --> 00:25:54.100 So the sec that's a, but again 444 00:25:55.155 --> 00:25:56.673 we shouldn't need a good technology. 445 00:25:58.084 --> 00:25:58.917 You mean high quality data to conclude those 446 00:25:58.917 --> 00:26:01.750 but the second the cost, how do the identification 447 00:26:01.750 --> 00:26:04.100 like the doctor and ask the surgeons that we 448 00:26:04.100 --> 00:26:06.591 some biological mechanistic study 449 00:26:06.591 --> 00:26:11.591 we can pinpoint what chemicals to Pacific chemical evolved 450 00:26:11.850 --> 00:26:14.092 in these exposure disease association 451 00:26:14.092 --> 00:26:16.060 then concreter some call. 452 00:26:16.060 --> 00:26:19.710 So you fact, now we can bring this information 453 00:26:19.710 --> 00:26:23.135 to policy maker, for example 454 00:26:23.135 --> 00:26:24.997 one good example, the freedom there 455 00:26:25.948 --> 00:26:28.646 some contamination in the water, a certain area. 456 00:26:28.646 --> 00:26:29.720 Then we find some seeing this. 457 00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:34.370 Then just some policy maker can ask all the people 458 00:26:34.370 --> 00:26:35.560 leaving that area. 459 00:26:35.560 --> 00:26:38.374 They have to get some filter to clean up their water. 460 00:26:38.374 --> 00:26:41.851 So I think that's the sway different perspective 461 00:26:41.851 --> 00:26:45.288 put together can help us better address 462 00:26:45.288 --> 00:26:48.500 any environmental related issues with all this. 463 00:26:48.500 --> 00:26:49.750 So this hallway we design 464 00:26:51.917 --> 00:26:53.240 I think the reason I put these three cultures together 465 00:26:56.597 --> 00:26:57.865 - That's a great way to, to put it in. 466 00:26:57.865 --> 00:27:01.764 I would just add to that, that the philosophy of the 467 00:27:01.764 --> 00:27:05.240 of the program of the school 468 00:27:05.240 --> 00:27:08.480 of all of the professors that you'll interact 469 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:11.720 with is that yes, we seek to 470 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:15.228 to deeply understand these problems deeply, rigorously 471 00:27:15.228 --> 00:27:17.324 scientifically understand these problems, but 472 00:27:17.324 --> 00:27:21.542 the only reason to deeply understand a problem is to inform 473 00:27:21.542 --> 00:27:24.950 and empower it solution. 474 00:27:24.950 --> 00:27:28.180 And so how we take that deep level understanding 475 00:27:28.180 --> 00:27:31.570 and that's what we're teaching you is the essence 476 00:27:31.570 --> 00:27:32.680 of how to understand those problems 477 00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:36.260 in order to inform and empower public health solution. 478 00:27:36.260 --> 00:27:38.670 So I think that that's, that's really key 479 00:27:38.670 --> 00:27:41.620 and that's the real power of how this program was designed. 480 00:27:48.111 --> 00:27:51.653 - Well, I'm not seeing any other questions 481 00:27:51.653 --> 00:27:55.010 so I wanna thank everyone for joining us today. 482 00:27:55.010 --> 00:27:57.530 Thank you to our faculty members and program team for being 483 00:27:57.530 --> 00:27:59.892 on with us to talk a little bit more about the program. 484 00:27:59.892 --> 00:28:01.625 As I mentioned 485 00:28:01.625 --> 00:28:05.349 we have other open house events throughout the week. 486 00:28:05.349 --> 00:28:07.370 Definitely join us. 487 00:28:07.370 --> 00:28:09.120 Hi. Do you have a question to them? 488 00:28:11.824 --> 00:28:13.344 Go ahead. 489 00:28:13.344 --> 00:28:15.163 Hi, I'm Tom Hayden, really excited. 490 00:28:16.360 --> 00:28:18.340 Just, I get excited hearing you talk 491 00:28:18.340 --> 00:28:19.980 about environmental health science. 492 00:28:19.980 --> 00:28:21.625 So it's, it's a good thing. 493 00:28:21.625 --> 00:28:23.250 I'm curious. 494 00:28:23.250 --> 00:28:25.689 I, so I'm struggling with, I, I really was focused 495 00:28:25.689 --> 00:28:28.544 on environmental health, sciences and informatics, and 496 00:28:28.544 --> 00:28:33.544 but then there are so many other classes too, and I 497 00:28:33.630 --> 00:28:34.760 I'm having a hard time 498 00:28:36.053 --> 00:28:37.470 with trying to figure out how to work, you know 499 00:28:39.982 --> 00:28:42.380 to get the most out of the experience as well as, and I'm 500 00:28:43.273 --> 00:28:44.760 I'm curious for the different 501 00:28:44.760 --> 00:28:46.898 in the environmental health sciences track 502 00:28:46.898 --> 00:28:50.356 are you able to take diff 503 00:28:50.356 --> 00:28:53.890 I know that some, like with informatics, it's kind of you 504 00:28:53.890 --> 00:28:56.650 each one builds upon the previous one. 505 00:28:56.650 --> 00:28:58.463 And so it'd be weird to jump. 506 00:28:59.780 --> 00:29:01.940 You can't jump into necessarily the third course 507 00:29:04.461 --> 00:29:06.691 because you didn't get the prior to 508 00:29:06.691 --> 00:29:10.676 or it might not be as easy to follow along 509 00:29:10.676 --> 00:29:12.725 with the third course as if you weren't in the previous. 510 00:29:12.725 --> 00:29:14.491 And so I'm curious with the EHS pro track 511 00:29:14.491 --> 00:29:17.040 is it possible to actually, you know, if I did the first 512 00:29:17.040 --> 00:29:18.627 and maybe the third or the second and the third 513 00:29:18.627 --> 00:29:20.752 or if I did, you know, or is it that they each, you know 514 00:29:20.752 --> 00:29:24.663 you need to take each one relate to get two, to do each one. 515 00:29:24.663 --> 00:29:27.170 I mean, if I wanted to do the third class 516 00:29:27.170 --> 00:29:30.783 do I need to take the previous two? 517 00:29:32.740 --> 00:29:34.451 - But again, my quick response is 518 00:29:34.451 --> 00:29:37.774 that these are three separate courses. 519 00:29:37.774 --> 00:29:41.627 The only independent is not just build upon another one. 520 00:29:41.627 --> 00:29:44.770 For example, all the tours, talk 521 00:29:44.770 --> 00:29:48.410 about the one us not to rely on the knowledge, but again 522 00:29:48.410 --> 00:29:50.829 the reason we talk about the 523 00:29:50.829 --> 00:29:52.830 why we putting all this together, we have scientific link 524 00:29:52.830 --> 00:29:55.763 the address, the question from different angle 525 00:29:55.763 --> 00:29:58.636 but the artists start with independent. 526 00:29:58.636 --> 00:30:00.803 The so you can take from one of us or the one 527 00:30:00.803 --> 00:30:03.210 cause we used to get management and policy 528 00:30:04.430 --> 00:30:06.463 but then you kept some question. 529 00:30:07.306 --> 00:30:08.603 You mind the, how we get this data. 530 00:30:10.216 --> 00:30:13.000 But again, that answer by first of course, right 531 00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:15.040 how we do this first design. 532 00:30:15.040 --> 00:30:16.140 But if we want to know 533 00:30:17.031 --> 00:30:18.510 about what is the specific chemical compound 534 00:30:18.510 --> 00:30:22.490 what tools people use to ping pong specific aging 535 00:30:22.490 --> 00:30:25.250 in these exposure is this association 536 00:30:25.250 --> 00:30:27.280 but that's the second cause of what a cover. 537 00:30:27.280 --> 00:30:32.280 So I think you can take, take this in different orders 538 00:30:33.740 --> 00:30:37.250 in random order, but based on your schedule, but again 539 00:30:37.250 --> 00:30:41.293 the underlying knowledge underlying link between this. 540 00:30:42.271 --> 00:30:43.104 But again, that's the hallway. 541 00:30:43.991 --> 00:30:45.220 They adjust the crushing from different perspective 542 00:30:48.427 --> 00:30:49.260 but again, you can take the sort of the one first to match. 543 00:30:50.585 --> 00:30:52.225 They're all second, I'm gonna take the second one. 544 00:30:52.225 --> 00:30:53.513 I don't think it doesn't any, any requirement. 545 00:30:54.576 --> 00:30:55.489 You have to take these 546 00:30:55.489 --> 00:30:56.920 in this order, but Paul, you, you, you 547 00:30:56.920 --> 00:30:59.410 you have any, any other suggestions? 548 00:30:59.410 --> 00:31:01.140 - Well, let me just say there there is 549 00:31:01.140 --> 00:31:03.810 and it's actually to be determined 550 00:31:03.810 --> 00:31:05.350 for environmental health sciences. 551 00:31:05.350 --> 00:31:09.446 There will be a specific order of the courses 552 00:31:09.446 --> 00:31:12.357 but I think your question Tom has to do with the 553 00:31:12.357 --> 00:31:16.020 the knowledge and skills that one would need 554 00:31:16.020 --> 00:31:18.566 as a prerequisite to take a course. 555 00:31:18.566 --> 00:31:20.700 So in the case of VHS 556 00:31:20.700 --> 00:31:23.150 I think it's fair to say as professors 557 00:31:23.150 --> 00:31:26.530 you said that, you know, you can take the third course 558 00:31:26.530 --> 00:31:28.670 in the sequence and benefit fully 559 00:31:28.670 --> 00:31:32.020 without taking the first two for this track. 560 00:31:32.020 --> 00:31:34.674 If you're interested in epidemiology, I would say, you know 561 00:31:34.674 --> 00:31:37.380 if you're going to be taking the third course 562 00:31:38.505 --> 00:31:41.008 in that sequence, advanced analytic methods and epi 563 00:31:41.008 --> 00:31:43.870 if you didn't have a very, very strong foundation 564 00:31:43.870 --> 00:31:46.470 in epidemiology and basic analytic methods 565 00:31:46.470 --> 00:31:49.490 it would be a very challenging experience for you. 566 00:31:49.490 --> 00:31:53.220 So the question of what you need as a prerequisite 567 00:31:53.220 --> 00:31:57.080 you know, as has been said, EHS, wouldn't be one of those 568 00:31:57.080 --> 00:32:00.926 in terms of physically, when you would take a course 569 00:32:00.926 --> 00:32:03.370 there will be a predefined sequencing 570 00:32:03.370 --> 00:32:05.770 of when you will be taking the courses. 571 00:32:05.770 --> 00:32:08.420 Now, one of the interesting things that I need to think 572 00:32:08.420 --> 00:32:10.360 about is that say you're interested 573 00:32:11.229 --> 00:32:14.160 in another course not to take it for credit or even audited 574 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:17.310 but just to sort of sort of peek in and view some 575 00:32:17.310 --> 00:32:20.200 of the lectures just as sort of a one-off experience. 576 00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:22.670 You know, I think that's a good question 577 00:32:22.670 --> 00:32:24.985 that you didn't ask, but that one that I need to answer. 578 00:32:24.985 --> 00:32:26.970 So I will actually think 579 00:32:28.058 --> 00:32:30.087 about that and consult with my colleagues 580 00:32:30.087 --> 00:32:32.588 because I think there would be a benefit to sort of 581 00:32:32.588 --> 00:32:34.688 you know, having a key that you can unlock 582 00:32:35.628 --> 00:32:37.862 and you just watch a random video 583 00:32:37.862 --> 00:32:40.570 for your own interest in edification, not necessarily for 584 00:32:40.570 --> 00:32:42.593 credit or for the program sequencing. 585 00:32:45.150 --> 00:32:45.983 - Thank you. 586 00:32:45.983 --> 00:32:47.156 That sounds great. 587 00:32:47.156 --> 00:32:49.410 That's the question that I wish I asked that was, yeah 588 00:32:49.410 --> 00:32:50.243 thank you. 589 00:32:57.280 --> 00:33:00.045 - I don't necessarily have a question. 590 00:33:00.045 --> 00:33:02.386 I just wanted to say a few things 591 00:33:02.386 --> 00:33:03.760 things I wanted to thank you for this presentation. 592 00:33:03.760 --> 00:33:05.270 I was coming in, definitely 593 00:33:05.270 --> 00:33:09.830 with applying with settled on epidemiology track 594 00:33:09.830 --> 00:33:12.830 and I was having a hard time being overwhelmed 595 00:33:12.830 --> 00:33:15.380 with all these amazing options 596 00:33:15.380 --> 00:33:17.383 within the other three tracks. 597 00:33:22.662 --> 00:33:25.578 And I think now visiting these sort 598 00:33:25.578 --> 00:33:27.640 of informational sessions gave me a lot of clarity 599 00:33:28.630 --> 00:33:32.340 on the sup on how I want to supplement my education 600 00:33:32.340 --> 00:33:35.584 and my chosen track and epidemiology. 601 00:33:35.584 --> 00:33:40.370 And when it comes to new environmental health 602 00:33:40.370 --> 00:33:43.420 and the effects of environmental pollution pollutants 603 00:33:43.420 --> 00:33:46.616 on human health is rings very close to me 604 00:33:46.616 --> 00:33:50.460 because I was born slightly a few years 605 00:33:50.460 --> 00:33:55.460 before Chernobyl explosion in 606 00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:59.070 on the border of Ukraine and Belarus. 607 00:33:59.070 --> 00:34:02.510 I grew up in poster novel environment and it was, I mean 608 00:34:02.510 --> 00:34:04.510 everything was awful lives were governed 609 00:34:05.741 --> 00:34:10.100 by the often mass of the Chernobyl catastrophe. 610 00:34:10.100 --> 00:34:13.700 My family had resources to move away temporarily 611 00:34:13.700 --> 00:34:15.100 but we still had to come back 612 00:34:15.100 --> 00:34:17.940 because not all my family could move away. 613 00:34:17.940 --> 00:34:20.348 So, and I could, I kept coming 614 00:34:20.348 --> 00:34:24.561 back year after year and seeing sort of the damages. 615 00:34:24.561 --> 00:34:28.780 And even though it's almost been 40 years 616 00:34:28.780 --> 00:34:31.577 I think many substances have different half-life. 617 00:34:31.577 --> 00:34:34.830 So the scary part is 618 00:34:34.830 --> 00:34:37.400 that even 50 years there will be another 619 00:34:38.343 --> 00:34:41.460 some other element will be radioactive. 620 00:34:41.460 --> 00:34:45.180 And many of my friends, even 621 00:34:45.180 --> 00:34:48.230 though they Mo many of them moved away 622 00:34:48.230 --> 00:34:52.300 a relocated thyroid cancer followed down 623 00:34:52.300 --> 00:34:54.380 some got diagnosed here, you know 624 00:34:54.380 --> 00:34:56.790 years and years, decades after exposure. 625 00:34:56.790 --> 00:34:59.900 And I think it will be a huge loss 626 00:34:59.900 --> 00:35:03.480 for me not to take a class, you know 627 00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:08.480 in this track and to get a better understanding 628 00:35:10.540 --> 00:35:12.663 on the molecular level potentially. 629 00:35:13.557 --> 00:35:17.793 And, and yeah, I guess, to work with 630 00:35:23.869 --> 00:35:28.790 with all of you or to, to, to, to work with all of you. 631 00:35:28.790 --> 00:35:31.063 And I learned from you and 632 00:35:32.738 --> 00:35:35.493 and learn from your expertise in this field. 633 00:35:38.670 --> 00:35:40.700 - Well, if I could just say 634 00:35:40.700 --> 00:35:42.380 thank you so much for sharing that 635 00:35:42.380 --> 00:35:44.769 because one of the things that I just mentioned is 636 00:35:44.769 --> 00:35:49.769 that in classes that I, that I teach 637 00:35:50.408 --> 00:35:51.620 I also teach undergraduates 638 00:35:51.620 --> 00:35:56.620 the teaching about Chernobyl teaching, about Bhopal teaching 639 00:35:56.800 --> 00:36:00.529 about these things to them is it is a history lesson 640 00:36:00.529 --> 00:36:03.090 and that they have gotten so many 641 00:36:03.090 --> 00:36:07.470 of the lessons that we need to know, and we need to build 642 00:36:07.470 --> 00:36:12.470 into what we do that it's really important to use these 643 00:36:13.740 --> 00:36:15.450 these events, to understand 644 00:36:15.450 --> 00:36:18.720 you know, hazard risk, environmental exposures. 645 00:36:18.720 --> 00:36:21.110 I, I happen to have done a time 646 00:36:21.110 --> 00:36:24.000 in the government with president Obama and was in charge 647 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:27.256 of the response to focus Shima the focus Shima meltdown. 648 00:36:27.256 --> 00:36:31.120 And so these things are very much high in our 649 00:36:33.158 --> 00:36:34.770 in our consciousness when we discuss these 650 00:36:36.174 --> 00:36:38.073 important environmental health issues. 651 00:36:44.620 --> 00:36:45.453 So thank you. 652 00:36:46.540 --> 00:36:47.373 - Thank you. 653 00:36:48.820 --> 00:36:51.378 It's amazing how it, I mean, how it 654 00:36:51.378 --> 00:36:54.221 how it is a history lesson, but it's, it's 655 00:36:54.221 --> 00:36:59.221 it's still a reality for the populations 656 00:36:59.921 --> 00:37:04.921 even though it's just not on our minds anymore. 657 00:37:05.128 --> 00:37:09.120 Yeah. I mean, I think the initially early 658 00:37:09.120 --> 00:37:12.808 in early years we had radiation safety class where 659 00:37:12.808 --> 00:37:16.565 we had to put gas masks on. 660 00:37:16.565 --> 00:37:21.565 And, but even then sort of for a really free really 661 00:37:23.050 --> 00:37:26.170 really young students as we were really young students 662 00:37:26.170 --> 00:37:28.610 it was already a laughing matter, you know 663 00:37:28.610 --> 00:37:31.710 because we were all laughing about, you know 664 00:37:31.710 --> 00:37:33.420 just basically how we 665 00:37:36.446 --> 00:37:37.940 how we look funny in this gas masks, right. 666 00:37:37.940 --> 00:37:41.723 More than what is protecting us from. 667 00:37:45.916 --> 00:37:49.700 - And, and let's, let's be, let's be honest about it 668 00:37:49.700 --> 00:37:51.670 the young generation of environmentalist. 669 00:37:51.670 --> 00:37:55.350 So, so, so concerned about how we respond to climate change 670 00:37:55.350 --> 00:37:56.970 that there'll be happy to say, well 671 00:37:56.970 --> 00:37:59.322 nuclear is the solution, and let's just go full into nuclear 672 00:37:59.322 --> 00:38:02.930 and just say, let's be thoughtful about these things. 673 00:38:02.930 --> 00:38:07.678 So having to provide that product context and 674 00:38:07.678 --> 00:38:11.420 and letting people know those, those important issues 675 00:38:11.420 --> 00:38:12.970 I'm so glad that you raised 676 00:38:14.109 --> 00:38:15.333 that because it's important to be thoughtful. 677 00:38:18.470 --> 00:38:19.680 - And I think, I mean 678 00:38:19.680 --> 00:38:23.050 in terms of Chernobyl is definitely could have been 679 00:38:23.050 --> 00:38:24.980 we could have learned a lot more 680 00:38:24.980 --> 00:38:27.830 than we are learning from it now. 681 00:38:27.830 --> 00:38:30.370 If the government was transparent, because 682 00:38:30.370 --> 00:38:35.370 I think the reason why people were forced to forget as soon 683 00:38:36.229 --> 00:38:39.649 as possible by not providing by 684 00:38:39.649 --> 00:38:42.820 by hiding the records, medical records, wow. 685 00:38:42.820 --> 00:38:47.170 Hundreds of thousands of medical records disappearing. 686 00:38:47.170 --> 00:38:51.920 And so that not, not so that the, that couldn't be being 687 00:38:52.987 --> 00:38:57.987 between a clear link between the environmental exposure 688 00:38:58.750 --> 00:39:02.258 and certain cancers, for instance 689 00:39:02.258 --> 00:39:03.840 or a certain birth defects. 690 00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:08.390 Definitely. I mean, even, I think it took a few days to 691 00:39:08.390 --> 00:39:11.129 even tell people we were playing outside. 692 00:39:11.129 --> 00:39:14.840 It rained in many places 693 00:39:14.840 --> 00:39:19.640 depending on where winds got went, and then the, they 694 00:39:19.640 --> 00:39:22.923 it was not the catastrophe wasn't announced for a few days. 695 00:39:34.760 --> 00:39:38.973 - Any other last questions, comments, topics of discussion. 696 00:39:44.340 --> 00:39:46.414 All right, thank you again to everyone. 697 00:39:46.414 --> 00:39:47.247 So much. 698 00:39:47.247 --> 00:39:49.395 We hope to connect with you 699 00:39:49.395 --> 00:39:53.817 in the coming weeks as always, we're here to help. 700 00:39:53.817 --> 00:39:56.020 So don't hesitate at all to reach 701 00:39:56.020 --> 00:39:56.910 out if you have questions, comments, concerns 702 00:39:56.910 --> 00:39:58.150 really anything you want to talk 703 00:39:58.150 --> 00:40:01.030 about in regards to the program. 704 00:40:01.030 --> 00:40:01.980 We are always here. 705 00:40:03.099 --> 00:40:04.810 I know almost all of you already, I've communicated 706 00:40:04.810 --> 00:40:07.360 with you have my contact information, but our office 707 00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:10.400 of admissions general contact is a great place to go 708 00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:13.819 and we can help direct you anywhere as needed. 709 00:40:13.819 --> 00:40:15.340 So thank you all again so much for your time 710 00:40:15.340 --> 00:40:16.450 and we hope you have a great rest of the afternoon. 711 00:40:16.450 --> 00:40:18.281 - Thank everyone 712 00:40:18.281 --> 00:40:20.503 - Thank you.