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SCI Café on Military Exposures and Veterans Health:

The Gulf Coast Center for Precision Environmental Health (GC-CPEH), the Health Museum, Mission United, and Combined Arms hosted a virtual conversation on Military Exposures and Veterans Health: Wednesday, September 1, 2021, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm.

What exposure concerns and health issues are affecting area veterans?  What has been learned about the health effects of military exposures, from Agent Orange to Gulf War Syndrome, to Burn Pits?  How do military exposures affect future generations?  What programs and activities are underway in the greater Houston area to address these issues?  This conversation featured Drew Helmer, MD, Deputy Director, Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, and Baylor College of Medicine; John Smith, Southeast Texas Regional Manager, Combined Arms – Texas Veterans Network, and USMC Vet 1999-2008; and Lea Steele, PhD, Director, Veterans Health Research Program, Baylor College of Medicine.  We discussed military exposures from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf War, to Iraq and Afghanistan.

You may email Krista Bohn (krbohn@utmb.edu) with any questions.

SCI Café on COVID 19 Vaccine Development & Deployment-2: On January 19, 2021, we held a virtual Coffee and Conversation SCI Café in partnership with the John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science in Houston, Texas.  The discussion featured Community Engagement Core Co-director Stephen Linder, who is nationally recognized for his contributions to COVID-19 research and the development of evidence-based policy for the greater Houston area and the state.  We talked about the challenges, misconceptions

SCI Café on COVID 19 Vaccine Development & Deployment-1: On December 16, 2020, we explored and discussed the current knowledge and research revolving around COVID-19 vaccine research, development, and deployment.  This conversation featured the UTMB’s Alan Barrett, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology & Department of Microbiology & Immunology; Director, Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences and Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Vaccine Research, Evaluation and Training for Emerging Infectious Diseases Member, Center for Tropical Diseases; and Kathy Barrosso, CPA, Chief Executive Officer, Galveston County Health District.

Coffee & Conversations at the Health Museum: On March 13, 2020, we held a virtual Coffee and Conversation SCI Café in partnership with the John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science in Houston, Texas.  The panel included Scott C. Weaver, MS, PhD, Director of the UTMB Institute for Human Infections & Immunity and Scientific Director of the Galveston National Laboratory, which is actively engaged in COVID-19 research, and one of only two National Labs with BSL 4 capabilities located on a U.S. university campus.  It also included Umair Shah, MD, MPH, Local Health Authority, and Executive Director for Harris County Public Health, which includes 700 public health professionals serving 4.5 million people.  The community was able to engage in dialogue in real-time with speakers to address their concerns and questions and continued to do so following the event via the web. The recorded event has since been viewed well over 1,000 times.