Webinar: Ways to Mitigate the Adverse Health Impacts of Wildfire Smoke

Title: Community Tools and Resources: Ways to Mitigate the Adverse Health Impacts of Wildfire Smoke

Description: The impact of wildland fire smoke on air quality and health is an issue growing in importance to many health officials across the country, as well as federal, state and local decision-makers. This webinar gives an overview of EPA’s tools and resources available to provide public health guidance and education before, during and after wildfire events.

Speaker: Dr. Tom Long is an Assistant Laboratory Director for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) where he leads coordination of NHEERL research on contemporary environmental public health issues to address research needs identified by the EPA’s Air and Energy national research program. Prior to joining NHEERL in 2017, he spent over 10 years in the EPA’s National Center for Environmental Assessment leading and contributing to Integrated Science Assessments evaluating the health and environmental impacts of criteria air pollutants such as particulate matter, ozone, and sulfur dioxide.

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