The Straight Scoop on Shale

A project of the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania Citizen Education Fund

2019 Shale & Public Health Conference

was held Tuesday November 19, 2019

The conference was presented by the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania and hosted by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh University Club.

Conference Videos
Program Book
This year’s conference featured new research presented by national experts:

  • Published in July – Lisa McKenzie PhD MPH: Congenital Heart Defects and intensity of oil and gas well site activity in early pregnancy
  • Published in April – Lee Ann Hill MPH presenting PSE Healthy Energy’s examination of how Oil and Gas Waste Management in Pennsylvania has been handled from 1991-2017
  • Published in July – Joan A. Casey PhD of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health on unconventional natural gas development, maternal anxiety and depression during pregnancy, and birth outcomes in Pennsylvania

…and more

Justin Nobel journalist for Rolling Stone and other publications, on radioactive waste

Nicole Deziel PhD MHS principal investigator for the Yale Drinking WATER study

Tara McAlexander, PhD, MPH Postdoctoral Fellow Drexel School of Public Health, results from research on unconventional natural gas development, heart failure hospitalizations, and the BNP biomarker

Michael McCawley PhD of West Virginia University, on  compressor station emissions and health

 

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