THE GLOBAL HEALTH CERTIFICATE INAUGURAL LECTURE
Under Poisoned Skies from Northern Manhattan to Southern Iraq
Please join us for a discussion on researching PAH metabolites in a setting of childhood cancer and oil extraction, and the role of investigative journalism in moving public health science forward, with the journalists who produced the BBC News Arabic documentary and the scientists who informed the work.
Panel
Owen Pinnell, producer BBC News Arabic
Jessica Kelly, director and Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker
Shukri Al Hassan, PhD, Department of Environmental Health Science, University of Basra, Iraq
Moderator
Manuela Orjuela-Grimm, MD, ScM, Director Global Health Certificate, Departments of Epidemiology (and Pediatrics)
The BBC documentary, Under Poisoned Skies, and Columbia Mailman research paper that informed the film are available at the following links.
The event will take place on Zoom and at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
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The event is co-sponsored by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health's Department of Epidemiology and NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and Justice in Northern Manhattan.
Prof. Orjuela-Grimm's interview for the documentary was filmed in Pupin Plaza on Columbia’s Morningside Campus. For more about the film and the Columbia connection, read Professor Provides Expertise for BBC Documentary on Oil Fields in Iraq.
