Join UB's Office of Global Health Initiatives for the 14th annual Global Health Day Symposium: Environmental Concerns and Health Impacts in Global and Local Communities on April 11.

Registration closes April 4.

This year’s symposium keynote speaker is Patrick Parsons, director of the Division of Environmental Health Sciences and Chief of the Laboratory of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry at the New York State Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center.

He’ll be looking at the results of a post-mortem study of exposure to bone-seeking toxic metals among patients who received long-term parenteral nutrition, or nutrition brought into the body through some way other than through the digestive tract (e.g., intravenously).

Parsons’ current research focuses on measuring toxic elements (lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic) in human tissues and body fluids, as well as in food and environmental surroundings. His NIEHS-funded research has focused on developing improved field measurements using “Monochromatic Excitation” X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry.

Visit the Office of Global Health Initiatives’ website for the full list of topics and presenters.

The symposium is organized and sponsored by the Office of Global Health Initiatives and co-sponsored by the Global Health Equity Community of Excellence.