Introducing the keynote speakers at ISEE 2024
| Ricardo Rozzi Keynote Lecture: Ethics of cohabitation August 26, 2024 Ricardo Rozzi, Chilean ecologist, and philosopher is a full professor at the University of North Texas (USA) and the University of Magallanes (Chile); He is Director of the Cape Horn International Center (CHIC), Puerto Williams, Chile, and Vice-President of the Center for Environmental Philosophy (CEP), Denton, Texas, USA. He has led the creation in Chile of the Omora Ethnobotanical Park, the Reserve of the Cape Horn Biosphere, and the Diego Ramírez Islands-Pasaje Drake Marine Park. His research combines ecology and philosophy and has coined the terms biocultural conservation, biocultural homogenization and biocultural ethics focused on the links between human well-being and the conservation of biological and cultural diversity. Integrating theory and practice, he has created new educational methodologies such as Field Environmental Philosophy and innovative practices such as Ecotourism with a Hand Lens. He has received various awards, including the National Award for Scientific and Technological Dissemination (EXPLORA-CONICYT, Chile, 2004) and the Eugene P. Odum Award for Excellence in Education in Ecology (Ecological Society of America - ESA, USA, 2019). Stella M. Hartinger Keynote Lecture: Climate change and challenges for sustainable development August 28, 2024 Stella M. Hartinger, MSc, PhD, is a Peruvian Environmental Epidemiologist and Associate Professor at the School of Public Health from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. She co-directors the Latin-American Centre of Excellence for Climate Change and Health and is the regional director of the Lancet Countdown Health and Climate Change for Latin America. Ebba Malmqvist Keynote Lecture: Planetary Health August 26, 2024 Ebba Malmqvist is an Ass. Professor in Environmental Medicine the head of the research group Planetary Health at Lund University at Lund University. She is also the co-chair of the ISEE Policy committee and an air pollution expert at the Science to Policy NGO Air pollution and Climate secretariate. Her main research area is exposure assessment of air pollution, and epidemiological and health impact assessment studies of urban exposures. The fact that impact can be both local and global, and often unevenly distributed, makes environmental justice central in her work in planetary health. She conducts studies and contribute to capacity-building also in the Global South such as Ethiopia. She received The Royal Academy of Science SIGHT Award 2020 for her environmental health research in low- and middle-income countries. She is passionate about bringing science to policy action and has been involved in the EU revision of its Ambient Air Quality Directive, and the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air pollution. Ana V Diez Roux Keynote Lecture: Urban health in Latin America and the Caribbean August 28, 2024 Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PHD, MPH, is Director of the Urban Health Collaborative and Distinguished University Professor of Epidemiology at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health. From 2014 to 2023 she was the Dana and David Dornsife Dean of the Dornsife School of Public Health. Trained as a pediatrician in her native Buenos Aires, she completed public health training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Diez Roux is internationally known for her research on the social determinants of population health and the study of how urban environments affect health . She was Principal Investigator of the Wellcome Trust-funded SALURBAL (Salud Urbana en América Latina/Urban Health in Latin America Study) study and currently co-leads the SALURBAL-Climate Study. She is also PI of the NIH-funded Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center. Dr. Diez Roux has served on numerous editorial boards, review panels and advisory committees including the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) of the Environmental Protection Agency (as Chair). Dr. Diez Roux received the Wade Hampton Frost Award from the American Public Health Association, the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Epidemiology from the American College of Epidemiology, and the Rothman Career Award from the Society for Epidemiologic Research. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Diez Roux has been an active mentor of doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty from diverse backgrounds. |