Academic Seminar

2022 BTBA March Academic Seminar

  • Want to know why some populations are associated with a higher risk of occupational injury?
  • Does living in a polluted environment make one more prone to diseases?
  • What can we do to improve the environment?
  • 想知道為什麼老天不公平,明明都是做同一種類型的工作,有些族群就是比較容易得到職業傷害?
  • 想知道長期居住在空汙嚴重的地區,是否真的比較容易生病?而當空污嚴重又不想宅在家的時候,該去何處吸到好空氣?
  • 讓我們一起了解最新的公衛研究與先進的地理資訊遙測科技,是如何促進大眾的健康福祉。

  • Time:
    • March 11 (Friday) 2022, 8-9 pm EST
  • Place:
    • Online event via Zoom. RSVP
  • Topic:
    • Occupational Health Disparities: Improving the Well-being of Workers at Risk
      • Fan-Yun Lan 藍凡耘, MD, MS, PhD, post-doctoral research fellow at Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
    • Geomatics and its application on air pollution epidemiology
      • Chih-Da Wu 吳治達, PhD, associate professor of the Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University
  • Speaker:
    • Fan-Yun Lan 藍凡耘 MD, MS, PhD
      • Dr. Lan received his PhD in Population Health Sciences at Harvard University, and is now a post-doctoral research fellow at Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also an occupational physician at National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taiwan. His primary research interest involves environmental and occupational medicine and epidemiology.
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    • Chih-Da Wu 吳治達 PhD
      • Prof. Wu is an associate professor of the Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University. He is also an adjunct research fellow of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes. Prof Wu’s research interest mainly focuses on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing technologies on environmental epidemiology, such as air pollution modeling and surrounding greenness health benefits.
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  • Moderator: Ya-Yun (Amy) Cheng 鄭雅勻 PhD
    • She is an epidemiologist and postdoctoral research fellow at Department of Environmental Health, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She finished a three-year postdoctoral training and got her Master and PhD degrees from the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at National Cheng Kung University. Her research focuses on how to integrate environmental and health approaches.
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2022-03-11, 8 PM
Virtual
BTBA

Free