Microbes and Social Equity 2022 Symposium
Session 4: “Community engagement and collaboration”, July 21, 2022
Session organizers:Dr. Mustafa Saifuddin, is a Staff Scientist with the Sustainable Food and Farming Program at the non-profit company Earthjustice. They have been an integral member of MSE and have fostered conversations, research, and education around environmental conservation and microbiology, policy, and social and environmental justice.
Dr. Ashley M. Toney, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Texas School of Public Health, El Paso. She is a Translational/Clinical Nutrition Researcher focused on Latine Health Disparities, and is passionate about the intersection of nutrition, food access, microbiome, and equity. Dr. Toney has been working on an initiative to bring the MSE concept into clinical research, practice, and training.
Speakers:
Dr. Pajau Vangay, PhD. Science Community Manager, National Microbiome Data Collaborative, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "Advancing microbiome science, in partnership with communities"
Dr. Rosie Alegado, PhD., Associate Professor, Oceanography; Director, Sea Grant Ulana ʻIke Center of Excellence; Director, School of Ocean and and Earth Science and Technology Maile Mentoring Bridge Program at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa. “Community-embedded microbiology in Indigenous spaces.”
Dr. Arbor Quist, PhD., Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Justice & Community-Driven Epidemiology in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the University of Southern California. “Partnering with Communities in Environmental Disaster Research."
Dr. Aidee Guzman, PhD., NSF and UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Irvine. “Building agricultural resilience from the ground up."
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