Seminar sessions are FREE, and open to all!

This event will be held online, via our UTHealth Webex webinar platform and in person.

Lisa M. Thompson, PhD, MS, RN, FNP, FAAN Director of Graduate Studies in Nursing Associate Professor Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Emory University

Lisa Thompson is an Associate Professor at Emory University in the School of Nursing, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Environmental Health at Rollins School of Public Health. The focus of Dr. Thompson's research is to evaluate effective behavioral interventions to reduce household-level air pollution that can be implemented in real-world settings. She has spent the past 18 years working on research projects related to household air pollution in rural Guatemala, starting as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley on an NIEHS-funded randomized stove intervention study on infant pneumonia (RESPIRE study, Dr. Kirk Smith, PI). Currently she is a co-Investigator on the HAPIN trial, a randomized controlled trial of a liquid petroleum gas stove and fuel distribution in 3,200 households in four countries (India, Guatemala, Peru, and Rwanda). This study aims to deliver evidence regarding the health benefits of a liquefied petroleum gas stove and free fuel intervention on children during the first year of life. She is currently conducting a cluster randomized trial in rural Guatemala, referred to as ECOLECTIVOS, that is one of the first implementation science study to develop and evaluate community-level working groups that aim to reduce household burning of plastic waste.

The Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (EOHS) Research Seminar Series presents information on current research topics and emerging issues in EOHS.

Seminars are presented by UTHealth School of Public Health faculty, doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows or external esteemed guest lecturers. Seminars are scheduled on a biweekly basis, on alternate Fridays at noon.

Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Safety Professionals, Industrial Hygienists, Epidemiologists, Graduate Students and other public health professionals.

The objective of the series is to identify and discuss new methods, advances and current topics in environmental and occupational health science research and apply current knowledge and key assumptions in environmental health sciences and other areas to advance the development of the field.

Learning Outcome(s): At the completion of this series of lectures the Physician, Registered Nurse, Safety Professionals, Industrial Hygienists, Epidemiologists, Graduate Students and other public health professionals will be able to (1) recognize an environmental and/or occupational health problem; (2) identify new methods, advances and current research in the environmental and occupational health science; (3) discuss research outcomes; (4) consider application of major research findings; and (5) apply lessons learned to public health practices and patient care.

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