February 10 | 12-1 pm | Multipurpose Room

"Investigating PFAS Exposure in Community Settings: The GenX Exposure Study"

Jane Hoppin, ScD

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Jane Hoppin, ScD, is an environmental epidemiologist and professor of biological sciences at NC State. Dr. Hoppin’s work focuses on environmentally impacted communities and working with them to characterize exposure, understand health effects, and share results throughout the community. She is the principal investigator of the GenX Exposure Study, a prospective cohort study of per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) impacted residents of the Cape Fear River Basin of North Carolina. She was a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Panel that made health recommendations for PFAS exposed populations. She is a fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini. In February 2022, Dr. Hoppin received the James E. Holshouer Award for Public Service from the UNC Board of Governors. Dr. Hoppin received her BS in Environmental Toxicology from the University of California at Davis and her SM and ScD from the Harvard School of Public Health.

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September 17 | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Multipurpose Room

"More than One Plus One: Syndemics in an Aging and Unequal World"
Denise Burnette, PhD
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Denise Burnette is the Samuel S. Wurtzel Professor of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University and Professor Emerita at Columbia University School of Social Work. Drawing on extensive professional experience with older adults in institutional and community settings, Dr. Burnette’s research focuses on the health, mental health and psychosocial well-being of older adults, particularly in resource constrained settings. Dr. Burnette served for a decade as an International Scholar with the Open Society in Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Balkans. She has completed Fulbright fellowships at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai); the University of Botswana Centre for Research on HIV & AIDS; and the Mongolia National University of Medical Sciences. She is immediate past president of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work (GADE) and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, the Gerontological Society of America and the New York Academy of Medicine.