Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Diseases
University of Chicago
Lilly Immergluck is a pediatrician, infectious disease specialist and physician scientist who studies the impact of antibiotic-resistant infections and vaccine preventable illnesses in children. As a pediatric population health service, clinical, and translational researcher, she has spent over three decades addressing ways to prevent the transmission of infectious diseases which disproportionately impact medically underserved communities. Her focus has largely been on topics tied to prevention of infectious diseases, which disproportionately impact medically underserved communities. She applies spatial statistical models to examine how socioecological conditions, rooted in geographical place and influenced by time, lead to the spread of infection. She has served as principal investigator of numerous clinical, translational and therapeutic trials (including Phases 1-4 vaccine trials), emphasizing ways to include underrepresented populations in clinical research; she currently serves as director of the University of Chicago’s Vaccine Center of Excellence.

Dr. David Wood completed his MD and MPH at UCLA and then pursued a residency in both Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine/Public Health. He has dedicated his professional career to developing, implementing and studying models of care for children and families with economic disadvantage and both physical and intellectual disabilities. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed publications and over 50 reports and book chapters. For over 20 years at UCLA and at the University of Florida, he developed and managed creative outreach programs for homeless children and families. In 2003 he founded and ran for 10 years the JaxHATS transition clinic, which has supports the healthy transition of youth with complex medical conditions and physical and intellectual disabilities. In 2014 he became Chair of Pediatrics at East Tennessee State University where he also ran the adolescent and transition clinical program. He currently directs Global Health Program for the ETSU College of Medicine. His current research focus is interventional research on positive youth development among indigenous Kichua youth in Ecuador.

Shoshanna Kasle, DrPH, is the Director of Strategy and Operations at the International Society of Urban Health. She is a public health professional with a passion for exploring how social drivers, such as access to quality education, safe and affordable housing, childhood poverty, and others, impact the ability for everyone to live healthy lives. Previously, she was Program Director at the City Health Dashboard, leading a team of population health and urban policy experts, epidemiologists, and data scientists to bring 40+ measures of health outcomes, health determinants, and health equity at the city and neighborhood level to over 900 U.S. cities. In this role, she also provided technical assistance to city governments and NGOs to use the data to inform policy and programming and to local communities to advocate for their own health and well-being. She has extensive experience in monitoring and evaluation, data translation, developing cross-sectoral partnerships, leading programs, stakeholder management, and cross-systems strategy to improve health outcomes. Her career has spanned academia, primary care, community development, and impact investing, among other areas of focus. Shoshanna received her DrPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in May 2018 and her MPH in Health Promotion from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in 2012.

Amy Sharma, PhD, is the Executive Director of Science for Georgia, a non-profit dedicated to engaging scientists and the community in productive dialogue. Sci4Ga bridges the gap between scientists and the public through training, outreach, and advocating for the responsible use of science in public policy. Her career has spanned across industry, academia, and government. She was VP of Product for Prediko, a start-up that was successfully acquired by United Technologies Corp. She spearheaded the development of the big data vertical at GTRI, was an Assistant Professor in Medical Physics at the University of Western Australia, an Assistant Program Manager for the National Science Foundation, and a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow.Dr Sharma’s PhD is in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University. She enjoys difficult challenges, jobs with overly long titles, communicating scientific and technical ideas to non-scientists, performing science stand-up comedy, sewing, and smoking various foods.

Stephanie Eick is, PhD MPH is an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist. Her research focuses on the health effects of environmental chemical and non-chemical (i.e., psychosocial) stressors during pregnancy. She has a particular interest in chemical mixtures, as well as understanding how non-chemical stressors can amplify the harmful effects of chemicals. She is also interested in biomarkers of stress response, such as oxidative stress and inflammation, and better understanding the biological mechanisms leading to adverse pregnancy and child health outcomes. Her research has been funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Dr. Eick is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Chemicals, which provides independent scientific advice, information and recommendation to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA).

Associate Professor, Rollins School of Public Health and Deputy Director of the HERCULES Exposome Research Center at Emory University
Dr. Sarnat is an air pollution researcher whose work focuses primarily on characterizing exposures to air pollution in various populations, in particular panels of cohorts with elevated exposures to traffic-related air pollution. Much of his research examines how exposure science informs environmental epidemiology; the impact of exposure misclassification and confounding on air pollution epidemiologic findings; and the development and application of molecular levels measures of air pollution exposure and response using novel high resolution metabolomics platforms. Dr. Sarnat is the current Deputy Director of the HERCULES Exposome Research Center and recently dismissed Chair of EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC). In this talk, he will discuss the field's shift toward a more holistic understanding of environmentally mediated disease.

Andrew Geller recently retired as a Senior Science Advisor in EPA’s Office of Research and Development Andrew was the editor-in-chief of EPA’s Interim Cumulative Impacts Framework and was the primary author of EPA’s Environmental Justice Research Roadmap. As Acting and Deputy Director of ORD’s Sustainable and Healthy Research Program, Andrew incorporated EJ and multimedia assessment into ORD’s research portfolio.  His research includes the development of community and tribal decision support tools, the impacts of environmental exposures on older adults, and neurotoxicological assessments of the impacts of environmental exposures on visual development and function.   Andrew received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and earned his Masters degree and PhD in Cognition and Perception Psychology at the University of Michigan.