Resources
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Vox: Mapping the the risk of lead exposure across the United States
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How USA Today took a deep data dive into the lead-contaminated water story
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Reporter looks beyond Flint’s lead headlines toward U.S. youth
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Health officials talk about cities in crisis, disparities in health #AHCJ16
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How the Flint water crisis has further exposed health disparities
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Review of EPA data leads USA Today to towns with contaminated water
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Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children (UC Press)
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Reporter describes how she tied lead-tainted water data to children
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Reporter’s piece targets impact of poverty on children, community
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The New York Times: The Facts About Lead Exposure and Its Irreversible Damage
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USA Today: Beyond Flint: Excessive lead levels found in almost 2,000 water systems across all 50 states
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The New York Times: Their Soil Toxic, 1,100 Indiana Residents Scramble to Find New Homes
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NPR coverage on lead contamination
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Detroit News coverage of the Flint water crisis
Recorded Nov. 4
Public health historians Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, authors of “Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children,” will offer their take on the nation’s long fight against lead poisoning and its devastating health impact.
In the shadow of the ongoing crisis in Flint, Mich., Markowitz and Rosner will offer their expertise on environmental health and the history of health struggles not only with water infrastructure but also through other means of exposure, from soil to paint.
Reporters will gain a better understanding about how the environment impacts the health struggles of various communities as well as how those health struggles have been tackled over time, particularly when it comes to children, race and equality.
The webcast will help provide context and ideas for those covering environmental health, public health or specific readership areas. Susan Heavey, AHCJ’s topic leader for social determinants of health care, will moderate the webcast.
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About the speakers
Gerald Markowitz is a history professor at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A public health expert with a focus on environmental health and occupational safety, he has received grants for his work from private and federal agencies, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. Markowitz research into the history of public health has also been recognized by the American Public Health Association. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, which he published with coauthor Rosner in 2002.
David Rosner is a professor of public health and professor of history at Columbia University, where he also serves as co-director of the Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health. His work examines the intersection of public health and social history and the politics of occupational disease and industrial pollution. He has also been involved in numerous lead-related lawsuits aimed holding the lead industry accountable for actions that have impacted children’s health. Rosner was elected to the National Academy of Sciences’ National Academy of Medicine in 2010. The author of many books on health, his 2013 work with Markowitz, Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children, was published in 2013.
