About the Series
EPA’s STAR Grants Program, in partnership with the National EPA-Tribal Science Council, announces a webinar series designed to translate and disseminate recent findings of previous and current STAR-funded researchers addressing the environmental health and exposure concerns of North American Native subsistence populations. These results may be of particular interest to Agency risk assessors, tribal environmental managers, and tribal health care practitioners. The series will also highlight the research goals and preliminary findings of newly awarded projects focused on cumulative risk and climate change. These new efforts may particularly appeal to those interested in novel risk assessment methods and to those interested in potential direct and indirect impacts of global warming on the health outcomes to Alaska Natives.
Overview of the Research
Many traditional North American Native Tribal Populations maintain intricate and ecologically interdependent relationships with the natural environment. Though many of these relationships developed over centuries, with knowledge and skills accumulated and passed across scores of generations, the rapid emergence of industrial chemical pollution, the availability of refined, processed foods, and social and political isolation has severely threatened the health, wellness, and way of life of individuals and entire tribal communities in the United States. Recently there has been increased emphasis on encouraging traditional diets, religious practices, and customs to restore and protect the health and knowledge base of tribal communities, while concomitantly addressing issues of environmental pollution, social justice, and sovereignty. This seminar series will feature tribal communities and their research partners conducting dietary exposure, cumulative risk, climate change health effects, and risk reduction research that aims to quantify and reduce environmental risks in order to encourage or restore traditional, healthy ways of life for American Native communities.
Specific objectives:
- Understand and review research findings.
- Explore new strategies, methods, and tools for assessing environmental health exposure among tribal populations.
- Identify research opportunities for advancing health protection and maintaining traditional tribal lifeways.
Participants
This symposium is free and open to EPA staff and representatives from the tribal community.
For more information, contact Nigel Fields at fields.nigel@epa.gov
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| Title | Date/Time | Presenter | Registration | Presentation Material |
| Eco-social Cultural Mapping: Tribal Lifestyles and Environmental Risks | June 30, 2009
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. (EDT) | Barbara Harper | Registration is closed | Eco-social Cultural Mapping |
| Alaska Tribal Berry Resources and Human Health Under the Cloud of Climate Change | October 14, 2009
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. (EDT) |
Mary Ann Lila, Ph.D.
Courtney G. Flint, Ph.D.
Greg Ferguson, N.D.
| Registration is closed | Alaska Tribal Berry Resources |
| Community-Based Risk Assessment of Exposure to Contaminants via Water Sources on the Crow Reservation in Montana | November 18, 2009
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. (EDT) |
Crescentia Cummins
Timothy Ford, Ph.D.
Mari Eggers, M.S.
| Registration is closed | Community-Based Risk Assessment |
| Climate Change and Contaminants in Subsistence Foods: A Tribal Program to Monitor the Health of Alaskan Yupik Women and Children | December 10, 2009
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. (EST) |
James Berner, Ph.D.
| Registration is closed | Climate Change and Contaminants |
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