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Workshop Learning Goals:
- Learn about principles and best practices for environmental justice (EJ) and human-planetary health research
- Understand deeper tensions around applying EJ principles to health equity research, and how the research community is currently engaging with these tensions
- Expand our understandings of respectful research methodologies and practices (e.g., community engagement in research co-design), as well research questions engaging with problems of structural racism (e.g. contributing to EJ scholarship through our respective fields)
- Appreciate an array of on-ramps for building EJ approaches into health equity research and practice
- Explore synergies that connect our respective research communities
DAY 1: Wednesday, May 5th 2021, 2:00-3:30 pm PT

Keynote by Catherine Flowers
Founder and Director, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice; Professor of Practice, Duke University
Catherine Flowers (she/her) is the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, which seeks to address the root causes of poverty by seeking sustainable solutions. She is the Rural Development Manager for the Equal Justice Initiative which serves the citizens of Lowndes County, one of the ten poorest counties in Alabama’s Black Belt; Catherine brings significant resources to address its many environmental and social injustices. Her work there addresses the lack of sewage disposal infrastructure and the legacy of racism and neglect stretching back to the time of slavery.
Catherine is an internationally recognized advocate for the human right to water and sanitation, and she works to make the UN Sustainable Development Agenda accountable to frontline communities. She is a Professor of Practice at Duke University as well as a member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
Catherine will discuss her new book Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret and consider the links between EJ practice, advocacy, and research for social impact.
View the recording of this event here.
Founder and Director, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice; Professor of Practice, Duke University
Catherine Flowers (she/her) is the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, which seeks to address the root causes of poverty by seeking sustainable solutions. She is the Rural Development Manager for the Equal Justice Initiative which serves the citizens of Lowndes County, one of the ten poorest counties in Alabama’s Black Belt; Catherine brings significant resources to address its many environmental and social injustices. Her work there addresses the lack of sewage disposal infrastructure and the legacy of racism and neglect stretching back to the time of slavery.
Catherine is an internationally recognized advocate for the human right to water and sanitation, and she works to make the UN Sustainable Development Agenda accountable to frontline communities. She is a Professor of Practice at Duke University as well as a member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
Catherine will discuss her new book Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret and consider the links between EJ practice, advocacy, and research for social impact.
View the recording of this event here.
DAY 2: Wednesday, May 12th 2021, 2:00-3:30 pm PT
Panel Discussion: Building Respectful EJ/Health Research Collaborations
This panel will bring together EJ, health equity, and global health researchers and advocates to discuss effective approaches and share stories and first-hand experiences building respectful EJ/health research partnerships that center the knowledge and expertise of frontline communities. Panelists will share their work, best practices, and on-the-ground experiences regarding: how can we set up meaningful academic-community collaboration spaces to advance environmental justice and health equity? How did panelists first start your research with communities, and what are the practices and structures that make it work? How and in what ways does your collaboration define and measure success? The discussion will be an opportunity to start a more in-depth discussion on broader questions that include:
Moderators: Sibyl Diver, Stanford EJ Working Group, and Navami Jain, Stanford Climate and Health
Confirmed Panelists:
View the recording of this event here.
This panel will bring together EJ, health equity, and global health researchers and advocates to discuss effective approaches and share stories and first-hand experiences building respectful EJ/health research partnerships that center the knowledge and expertise of frontline communities. Panelists will share their work, best practices, and on-the-ground experiences regarding: how can we set up meaningful academic-community collaboration spaces to advance environmental justice and health equity? How did panelists first start your research with communities, and what are the practices and structures that make it work? How and in what ways does your collaboration define and measure success? The discussion will be an opportunity to start a more in-depth discussion on broader questions that include:
- How can we move beyond extractive research and build solidarity in our work?
- How do EJ and human rights principles inform your research practice?
- How do you address tensions that arise in EJ/community health research (e.g. slow/fast research, disciplinary/interdisciplinary approaches, science/advocacy positioning, qualitative/quantitative methods)?
Moderators: Sibyl Diver, Stanford EJ Working Group, and Navami Jain, Stanford Climate and Health
Confirmed Panelists:
- Rachel Morello-Frosch - Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and the School of Public Health, University of California-Berkeley; and White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) member
- David Gonzalez - PhD candidate, EIPER Program
- Kajal Khanna - Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine; Clinical Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Pediatrics; Member, Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI)
- Elaine Flores-Ramos - Postdoctoral fellow in Planetary Health, Stanford; Medical doctor and researcher, Center for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Dan Sakaguchi - Staff Researcher, Communities for a Better Environment
View the recording of this event here.
DAY 3: Wednesday, May 19th 2021, 2:00-3:30 pm PT
Facilitated Breakout Sessions
Stanford EJ Working Group co-leaders Sibyl Diver and Emily Polk who study and teach EJ, community-based research approaches, and decolonizing methodologies at Stanford will lead a discussion exploring best practices, research challenges, and on-ramps for scholars, practitioners, and students interested in engaging with authentic EJ research and practices.
View the recording of this event here, and slides are available below.
Stanford EJ Working Group co-leaders Sibyl Diver and Emily Polk who study and teach EJ, community-based research approaches, and decolonizing methodologies at Stanford will lead a discussion exploring best practices, research challenges, and on-ramps for scholars, practitioners, and students interested in engaging with authentic EJ research and practices.
View the recording of this event here, and slides are available below.
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Event Co-Organized By:
Human and Planetary Health Seed Grant from the Sustainability Initiative
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