Distinguished Professor Lecture Series
The Environmental Health Sciences Distinguished Professor Lecture Series, launched by the Department of Environmental Health Sciences in 2026, honors faculty promotion while showcasing impactful research that advances the field. Rooted in the Department’s mission to understand, prevent, and mitigate the health impacts of environmental exposures and climate change, the series highlights the cutting-edge scholarship that drives our work.
Featuring leaders whose work spans our research centers and laboratories, the series reflects our commitment to translating scientific discovery into updated public health policies and real-world impact. Through robust collaborations among faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and community-based organizations—and an interdisciplinary, inclusive approach ranging from mechanistic laboratory science to population-based epidemiology and participatory research—these seminars will spotlight departmental priorities including environmental inequalities and structural drivers of health, enduring and emerging challenges in air and water quality and climate-related risks, innovations in data and analytical tools, discovery of biological pathways, and action-oriented research that informs implementation and public health practice across local, national, and global contexts.
Past Seminars
2026: Ami Zota, ScD, "Where Science Meets Justice: Environmental Health as a Catalyst for Social Change"
