This Lead is Killing Us: A History of Citizens Fighting Lead Poisoning in Their Communities

Daryl Garsik, REHS, MPH

Nova Southeastern University Environmental Health and Safety

This presentation covers the U.S. EPA’s Basic Information About Lead in Drinking Water. How lead gets into drinking water, the effects of exposure to lead in drinking water, and showering in water with high lead content, will be discussed. The history of the various standards in the U.S. and expected regulatory changes will be presented.

Robert Speth, MA, PhD, FAAAS, FAHA

Nova Southeastern University; Georgetown University School of Medicine; Institute for Ethnomedicine

Get the Lead Out: or, Smelter Skelter

From Flint, Michigan to Kellogg, Idaho; from London, England to Beverly Hills California, lead intoxication has taken a terrible toll. This presentation will blend the neurotoxicology of lead with anecdotal narratives describing the adverse interactions of lead with people.

A. Bernadette Mayfield-Clarke, PhD

Speech/Language Pathology & Associates PLLC

Retrospective Analysis of Lead Poisoning to Current Environmental Health Outcomes: What's Changed?

Identification of past research that has impacted environmental health/developmental stances of children between the ages of 0-6 years and quantify current regime that will allow us to question ourselves about what has changed.

Sudha Rajagopalan, MPH

Florida Department of Health

Overview of the Florida Lead Poisoning Prevention Program

Presentation provides a history and overview of the Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. Risk factors, Florida screening requirements, case coordination process, statistics, and distribution of lead cases in Florida will be discussed. 

Elizabeth Fernandez, DO, MS

Nova Southeastern University

Lead and our Health

Presentation includes the health effects of lead poisoning, risk factors, and the screening process with a focus on children.

Josiah Alamu, PhD, MPH, BPharm, DipPH

Nova Southeastern University 

Public Health and Lead in Drinking Water Supplies in the United States

The presence of lead in drinking water is significantly associated with long-term adverse health effects in humans. This presentation will focus on water lead levels in the United States, particularly human health and blood lead tracking, water lead levels and association with blood lead levels, preventable water crises in the US, and methods for epidemiological assessment of lead in the environment.

NaTisha Hutson, MA

Restorative Impact, Founder and Lead Facilitator

Dispute Resolution & Conflict Management

Educator & Restorative Justice Practitioner

Stacy R. Allsop, MIS, MLS

Nova Southeastern University

Presentation explores Restorative Justice as we know it today, and its indigenous roots. Participants will gain an understanding of restorative processes, and the use thereof, to support justice for communities that have been systemically harmed. Join the librarian in a continuation of the discussion, tying in the environmental aspects, and bringing the general topic into the realm of pollution issues in communities. Specific projects and collections will be highlighted, as you learn how to locate national and international published research, reports, and news stories that focus on the intersection of restorative justice and lead poisoning.