By Elizabeth Prom-Wormley
Hey loyal blog readers and subscribers!! It’s National Public Health Week! Join us tomorrow (4/6) at noon as the PI from Virginia Tech who led the Flint, MI water study comes to VCU!! Come and hear about this exciting academic-community partnership and what looms in water issues for public health. Can’t come? Please share in your networks!
Washington DC Lead Crisis 2001 – 2006: Prelude to Flint, MI
Marc Edwards, PhD, MS
Charles Lunsford Professor of Civil Engineering
Virginia Tech
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
12:00-1:00 pm
SunTrust Building 4th Floor Auditorium
919 E Main Street, Richmond, VA 23219
Dr. Edwards was one of the Primary Investigators on the Flint, MI water study team that identified the water crisis amid resident concerns. Edwards is a Past-President of the Association of Environmental and Engineering Science Professors. In 2004 and 2010, he testified to the United States Congress on the issue of lead in Washington DC drinking water and scientific misconduct at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), respectively. His research group is currently emphasizing research on premise plumbing– a problem costing consumers in the U.S. billions of dollars each year and which also can endanger the safety of portable water. Time Magazine named Dr. Edwards “The Plumbing Professor” in 2004 and listed him among the 4 most important “Innovators” in water from around the world.
Additional information on the Water Study team can be found at http://flintwaterstudy.org/
Please join us for this incredibly important talk regarding successful community-academic partnerships on one of the most significant American public health crises in recent years.
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