EDGE Symposium: Environmental Health Sciences in a Changing Environment
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
4225 Roosevelt Way NE, Suite 100, Room 229
9 am - 3 pm
EDGE will host our annual symposium on June 4th, 2025. This all-day in-person event includes dynamic speakers and networking opportunities. We will highlight the work of our recent EDGE pilot projects, hear from early career faculty, and learn emerging best practices in community engaged research. The UW community is welcome to attend.
Registration has closed. Please email if you have questions about registration.
Agenda
8:45 AM | Coffee, registration
9:00 AM | Joel Kaufman, EDGE Director, Welcome and introduction to day
9:10 AM | Early stage investigators
Katya Cherukumilli, Assistant Professor, Human Centered Design and Engineering, “Evaluating University Campus Drinking Water Infrastructure Through Building Walkthroughs, User Surveys, and Targeted Water Quality Testing”
Jonika Hash, Assistant Professor, Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing, “Characterizing Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposure and Epigenetic Aging in an Under-Resourced Sample of Mother-Child Dyads”
Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen, Assistant Professor, DEOHS, “Compound Urban Infrastructure Deficiency and Extreme Heat in the Mediterranean Region”
10:15 AM |Break
10:25 AM | EDGE 2024 Pilot Projects
Sheela Sathyanarayana, EDGE Pilot Project Program Director, Introduction to the EDGE Pilot Project Program
Shelly Erickson, Research Biologist, VA and Research Assistant Professor, Gerontology, “Effects of Air Pollution on Traumatic Brain Injury”
Catherine Karr, Professor, DEOHS, and Christine Loftus, Clinical Associate Professor, DEOHS, "Engaging Community to Overcome Barriers to Wildfire Smoke Exposure Protection in Early Life"
Karen Levy, Professor, DEOHS, and Kelsey Jesser, Clinical Research Assistant Professor, DEOHS , “Determining the Health and Environmental Impacts of a City-Wide Sanitation Intervention”
Ed Kelly, Professor, DEOHS, and Judit Marsillach, Assistant Professor, DEOHS, “Novel Lung-On-A-Chip Microphysiological System for Assessing Adverse Effects of Diesel Exhaust Exposures”
12:00 PM |Group photo, lunch on your own
12:45 PM | BJ Cummings, Co-manager, EDGE Community Engagement Core, "Emerging Best Practices in Community Engaged Research: Leveraging Research for Action (aka What is Advocacy, Anyway?)” with panelists: Elena Austin (Healthy Schools, Healthy Air), Jamie Donatuto (UW EDGE CEC Co-Director, formerly Swinomish Tribe), and Morgan Hickel (UW External Affairs)
1:45 PM | EDGE Awards
2:00 PM | Social hour and retirement celebration for BJ Cummings on 2nd floor patio (weather permitting)