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Public Health and Methane Gas Plants
Wed, Oct 02
|Webinar
Please join us to learn about how methane gas infrastructure affects public health, especially our patient populations in Wisconsin as the state is transitioning away from coal-fired power plants. The event is eligible for 1 hr AMA PRA of CME for MDs or 1 hr of ANCC Contact hours for nurses.
Time & Location
Oct 02, 2024, 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM CDT
Webinar
About The Event
Join Healthy Climate Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Environmental Health Network, and the Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin for one exciting CE Power Hour as Jonathan Buonocore, ScD, presents, “Health Impacts of Energy Systems – Consequences of Methane Gas Infrastructure in Wisconsin" and Brittany Keyes, DPT, follows with, "Community Health and Methane Gas Plants: Reaction versus Prevention.”
Jonathan Buonocore, ScD, is an assistant professor at Boston University School of Public Health and focuses his research on evaluating the health impacts of energy systems while modeling health co-benefits of climate mitigation strategies and energy policies. The learning objectives for this section of the course are to:
Understand basic methods of risk assessment, exposure assessment, life cycle assessment, and health impact assessment as they apply to methane gas energy systems.
Become familiar with recent research on health impacts of methane gas.
Apply hazard assessment to understand emerging hazards from oil and methane gas.
Brittany…