More than 70 trainees, professors, community advocates, and folks with a variety of backgrounds came together on August 15th and 16th for an in-depth online boot camp on the theories and methods to study environmental health disparities and environmental justice (EJ).
This boot camp was co-led by Dr. Tamarra James-Todd, an Associate Professor in the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Dr. Joan Casey, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.
The creation of this yearly EJ boot camp was driven by a lack of training opportunities surrounding designing studies and implementing methods/statistical analyses for evaluating environmental health disparities and environmental injustices. The popularity of the two-day crash course in EJ in 2021, led to its continuation this past August.
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