NYULH CIEH Plastics and Human Health Symposium

The NYULH Center for the Investigation of Environmental Hazards (CIEH) will kick off Climate Week NYC on September 23 and 24, 2024, for a two-day in-person scientific symposium on Plastics and Human Health here at NYU. This convening will have a heavy translational emphasis and an eye toward the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations, which have had four rounds of International Negotiations Committee meetings that have revealed some of the difficulties in shaping an agreement to reduce plastic production and consumption.

Keynote speakers include:

• Pete Myers, PhD, founder and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, Adjunct Professor, Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University
• Nihan Karali, PhD, Engineering/Environmental Policy Researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley
• Robert Sargis, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
• Jo Banner, Co-Founder & Co-Director, The Descendants Project
• Jane Muncke, PhD, MSc, Managing Director, Food Packaging Forum Foundation
• Luis Vayas Valdivieso, LLM, Ambassador of Ecuador to the U.K., Chair of Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC)

• Monday, September 23rd (8:00 am to 6:30 pm)
• Tuesday, September 24th (9:30 am to 4:30 pm)

Breakfast and coffee will be available beginning at 8:00 AM ET on September 23rd and 9:30 am on September 24th. Lunch will be provided. A small reception will follow the event on September 23rd at 5:15 PM ET. Please bring your own reusable water bottles.

The conference will be held at Schwartz Ground Floor, SLHE, at the NYU Langone Health Medical Science Building, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY, 10016. We will also live stream the event.

The first day will cover the gamut of issues, from microplastics to chemicals, across all the organ systems impacted, while the second day will have a heavy translational emphasis and an eye toward the Global Plastics Treaty.

Full agenda to be shared closer to the event.

For any event-related questions, please contact [email protected].

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

550 1st Ave., 550 1st Avenue, New York, United States