Ami Zota, ScD, MS
Associate Professor
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
She / Her / Hers
In her seminar, Dr. Zota will discuss the environmental injustice of beauty framework, which links intersectional systems of oppression to racialized beauty practices, unequal chemical exposures, and adverse health outcomes. She will also discuss how her research program seeks to advance beauty justice through community-driven research and science communication.
About the Speaker: Ami Zota, PhD is a population health scientist with expertise in environmental health, environmental justice, and maternal and reproductive health. Her research focuses on understanding social and structural determinants of environmental exposures and their consequent impacts to women’s health outcomes across the life course. Her long-term goal is to help secure environmental justice and health equity among systematically marginalized populations by advancing scientific inquiry, training next generation leaders, increasing public engagement with science, and supporting community-led solutions for structural change. Dr. Zota is the founding director of the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice program which seeks to foster more diverse, equitable and inclusive leaders in environmental and climate justice, training early career scientists from systematically marginalized backgrounds in science communication, storytelling, community engagement, and policy translation.
Thursday, March 9, 2023, 12:00-1:15 pm Eastern
*This seminar will be presented via Zoom only (no in-person option).
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