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Date(s) - December 5, 2020
1:15 pm - 1:45 pm

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Stephanie Malin is one of 12 speakers hosted by Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) Colorado for their 2nd annual Medical Symposium: Health Effects of Oil and Gas Development. Registration is complimentary, and CME or CE credits are available to health care professionals for a fee.

Dr. Malin’s talk will cover her multi-year research on the ways unconventional oil and gas development can impact daily life, mental health, and environmental justice in communities that host the extractive activity. The presentation draws on research conducted in multiple northern Colorado communities since 2014 and will also tie to environmental sociology and on-going work on how to maximize environmental equity in these spaces, given that it’s so vital to people’s experiences of well-being and control over their daily lives. This data collected in the first three years of this study were funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a branch of the NIH. Since then, Dr. Malin has continued the study given the interest and need in surrounding communities. Overall, Dr. Malin’s research focuses on extractive industries and their environmental justice, health, and economic (often, boom-bust prone) relationships with communities and people they employ.