The virtual conference is presented by the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania and hosted by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

Featuring new research presented by national experts on shale and public health impacts, and discussions of practical applications. The virtual conference will have five topic segments. Each includes a panel discussion led by a top researcher:

Novel Methods of Assessing Air Exposures and Public Health - Nicole Deziel, PhD, MHS, Yale, with Petros Koutrakis, PhD, Harvard, Longxiang Li, PhD, Harvard, and Jill Johnston, PhD, USC

Unconventional Oil & Gas, Community Impacts and Environmental Justice - Lara Cushing, PhD, MPH, UCLA, Jim Fabisiak, PhD, U Pittsburgh, with Cassandra Clark, Yale, Katherine Dickinson, PhD, U Colorado, and Rebecca Franz, Chief Deputy Attorney General of PA

New Research on Birth Outcomes - Lisa McKenzie, PhD, MPH, U of Colorado Anschutz, with David Gonzalez, Stanford, and       Kathy V. Tran, UC Berkeley

New Research on Other Health Outcomes - Seth Shonkoff, PhD, MPH, PSE Healthy Energy/UC Berkeley, with Irena Gorski Steiner, MPH, Johns Hopkins, Mary Willis, MPH, Oregon State, and David Brown, ScD, SWPA Environmental Health Project

Climate Change, COVID-19, Fossil Fuels and Plastics - Brian Schwartz, MD, Johns Hopkins with Kristina Marusic, Environmental Health News, and   Anna Cummins, 5 Gyres Institute