The Recovery Series
The Missing Link: Pollution, Health & COVID-19
Join us for week four of The Recovery Series with Executive Director, Tim Gray, where we try to make sense of the COVID-19 crisis from an environmental perspective. Each week, we dig into the most pressing questions on current environmental issues.
In the fourth week of our talk we explore how pollution, health and the COVID-19 pandemic are all interlinked. Every year, exposure to toxic pollution claims the lives of nine million people worldwide. By failing to prevent chronic diseases, we became more vulnerable to the full force of respiratory infection epidemics like COVID-19. Dr. Bruce Lanphear, Health Sciences Professor at Simon Fraser University, will be joining us to discuss why stronger toxics and pollution laws are urgently needed and how disease prevention can save tens of billions of dollars that can be re-invested in healthcare and cleaner production.
Register today so you can tune in for the discussion! You can check out our previous episodes here.
Webinar Details
Topic: The Missing Link: Pollution, Health & COVID-19
Date: Thursday, May 7th, 2020
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 12:50 p.m. (EDT)
Speakers:
Tim Gray (Host)
Executive Director of Environmental Defence
Dr. Bruce Lanphear
MD, MPH, Health Sciences Professor at Simon Fraser University
Muhannad Malas
Toxics Program Manager, Environmental Defence