The Summer Quarterly Meeting of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study will take place on July 9, 2025 from 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm.

The topic will be Environment and Public Health.

Location: Room 206, Technology Research Center (TRC) on the UMBC campus.

Remote link: https://umd.zoom.us/my/dexter.locke

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Click HERE to download the agenda or see below. We look forward to seeing you all there!

     – 12:30 Refreshments and Conversation

     – 12:40 Welcome, Introductions, and Announcements

         Rylee Wernoch

     – 12:45 Spatial Science for Better Health: The Role of GIS in Understanding Environmental Determinants 

         Paige Brochu, University of Vermont Spatial Analysis Lab 

    –  1:00 Environmental Determinants of Energy Burden and Implications for Heat-Health Vulnerability

         Becky Shade, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

    – 1:15 A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Structural Racism, Firearm Homicide, and Fatal Opioid-Involved Overdose: An Injury-Related Syndemic

         Mudia Uzzi, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

     – 1:30 Cross-cutting Questions

     – 1:45 Break

     – 2:00 What is the Association Between Greening Vacant Lots and Adolescent Health? A Snapshot of Findings from Project VITAL

         Kristin Mmari, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

     – 2:15 Health Departments & Climate Change in the US

         Megan Weil Latshaw, Johns Hopkins

     – 2:30 Health Impacts of Place-Based Greening Interventions: A Systematic Review

         Dustin Fry, Lehigh University College of Health

     – 2:45 Wildfire & Preterm Birth – Current and Future research.

         M. Luke Smith, Penn State University

    – 3:00 Cross-cutting Questions

    – 3:45 Break

    – 4:00 Discussion, proposals, opportunities to collaborate & Next Steps?

    – 4:30 Adjourn

        Dexter Locke