You are registering for the Public Lecture, "Planetary Health: An Upstream Approach to Addressing the Needs of Patients and Communities", presented by Dr. Ruth McDermott-Levy, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Global and Public Health, Villanova University, Philadelphia.
Co-sponsored by The Rock Ethics Institute, Sustainability Institute, the Penn State University Libraries and the Center for Spiritual and Ethical Development.
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Foister Auditorium
102 Paterno Library
Post-lecture reception immediately following the lecture at:
Pasquerilla Spiritual Center
107 Memorial Lounge
An expert in environmental health, global health, and public health nursing, Dr. McDermott-Levy has taught and conducted research in Philadelphia’s Arab-American and immigrant communities, community health workers in Nicaragua, and in the Marcellus Shale region of Northeastern Pennsylvania. She has advocated for health protective regulations for those who live in oil and gas development communities. With nurse colleagues around the U.S., Dr. McDermott-Levy has developed recommendations and teaching strategies to incorporate environmental health and climate change into the nursing curricula. She also is a co-editor of an open-access environmental health textbook for nurses, Environmental Health in Nursing.
You are registering for the Public Lecture, "Planetary Health: An Upstream Approach to Addressing the Needs of Patients and Communities", presented by Dr. Ruth McDermott-Levy, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Global and Public Health, Villanova University, Philadelphia.
Co-sponsored by The Rock Ethics Institute, Sustainability Institute, the Penn State University Libraries and the Center for Spiritual and Ethical Development.
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Foister Auditorium
102 Paterno Library
Post-lecture reception immediately following the lecture at:
Pasquerilla Spiritual Center
107 Memorial Lounge
An expert in environmental health, global health, and public health nursing, Dr. McDermott-Levy has taught and conducted research in Philadelphia’s Arab-American and immigrant communities, community health workers in Nicaragua, and in the Marcellus Shale region of Northeastern Pennsylvania. She has advocated for health protective regulations for those who live in oil and gas development communities. With nurse colleagues around the U.S., Dr. McDermott-Levy has developed recommendations and teaching strategies to incorporate environmental health and climate change into the nursing curricula. She also is a co-editor of an open-access environmental health textbook for nurses, Environmental Health in Nursing.