ENVS Colloquium: Bending the Arc Towards Environmental Justice: The Need to DeColonize Science to Improve Environmental Health in Communities Impacted by Environmental Racism and Injustice
Join us on Zoom on March 8 for our Spring 2021 departmental colloquium series!
Dr. Sacoby Wilson is an Associate Professor with the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland-College Park. Dr. Wilson has 15 years of experience as an environmental health scientist in the areas of exposure science, environmental justice, environmental health disparities, community-engaged research including crowd science and community-based participatory research (CBPR), water quality analysis, air pollution studies, built environment, industrial animal production, climate change, community resiliency, and sustainability. He works primarily in partnership with community-based organizations to study and address environmental justice and health issues and translate research to action.
Dr. Wilson is Director of the Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health (CEEJH) laboratory. CEEJH is focused on providing technical assistance and research support to communities fighting against environmental injustice and environmental health disparities in the DMV region and across the nation. He has worked on environmental justice issues including environmental racism with community-based organizations through community-university environmental health and justice partnerships in South Carolina and North Carolina. Dr. Wilson has been very active professionally to advance environmental justice science and has done alot of work to build environmental justice organizations and coalitions. Dr. Wilson has received many awards for his contributions and achievements as an environmental justice researcher and advocate.
When
3 p.m. March 8, 2021