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Footprints, Fairness, and the Future of Humanity: Environmental Justice and Enhanced Evolution
Start Date: 11/17/2021Start Time: 4:00 PM
End Date: 11/17/2021End Time: 5:30 PM

Event Description
BIOMED Seminar

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Title:
Footprints, Fairness, and the Future of Humanity: Environmental Justice and Enhanced Evolution

Speaker:
Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, ScD, MD, DrPH
Distinguished University Professor and Dean
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Drexel University

Details:
Achieving healthy populations worldwide depends at least partly on environmental justice for all. This requires not only acting locally in a different way, but also thinking globally in a different way. Understanding the inherent unfairness of our ecological footprints is a key first step, but acting upon this understanding will require a new level of thinking, an eco-enlightenment and enhanced eco-consciousness. Can/should/must neuroengineering contribute to this enhanced neurocognition and enhanced moral evolution?

Biosketch:
Dr. Paul W. Brandt-Rauf is currently Distinguished University Professor and the Dean of the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems at Drexel University. Dr. Brandt-Rauf received his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, as well as his MD, and his master’s and doctoral degrees in Environmental Sciences, from Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and the Royal Society of Medicine. After completing his training, he joined the faculty of Columbia where he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, as well as Professor of Medicine, Earth, and Environmental Engineering, and International and Public Affairs. In 2008, he became Professor Emeritus at Columbia when he moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago as Dean of the School of Public Health. In 2017, he became Professor Emeritus at UIC when he assumed his current position at Drexel.

Dr. Brandt-Rauf’s major research interest is environmental carcinogenesis, particularly the molecular biology and the molecular epidemiology of cancer-related proteins. He has also written extensively about ethical, legal, and social issues in occupational/environmental health policy and practice. He has published over 260 journal articles and book chapters, and he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine since 1992. Dr. Brandt-Rauf is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Engineers Without Borders-USA and a current member of the Board of Directors of the Carcinogenesis Foundation. He has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards and has served as an advisor and consultant to business, labor, academic and governmental organizations in the US and around the world.
Contact Information:
Name: Lisa Williams
Email: ltw22@drexel.edu
Paul Brandt-Rauf
Location:
Remote Webinar
Audience:
  • Everyone

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