Open burning of plastic waste is practiced widely across the globe and exposures to air pollution from plastic waste is harmful to human health. In this presentation, the effects of plastic waste burning/incineration on global climate change will be discussed. A case study will highlight the ECOLECTIVOS project, an implementation research study that is evaluating the uptake and sustainability of intervention strategies to reduce use, recycle, and repurpose plastic that will lead to reductions in household-level plastic burning in rural, indigenous Guatemalan communities.

This webinar is co-hosted by the Center for the Environment and Health at Massachusetts General Hospital and the MGH Institute of Health Professions (IHP) Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health.

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Lisa M. Thompson, PhD, MS, RN, FNP, FAAN
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Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing with a joint appointment in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Dr. Lisa M. Thompson is a Professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing with a joint appointment in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. The focus of her research is to evaluate effective behavioral change interventions to reduce maternal and infant exposures to household air pollution from solid cooking fuels. For the past 20 years, she has worked on intervention trials related to household air pollution, including the first randomized stove intervention study on infant pneumonia in Guatemala (RESPIRE trial) and the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) stove intervention trial. She is the principal investigator of a cluster randomized trial in rural Guatemala (ECOLECTIVOS) an implementation science study to develop and evaluate community-level interventions that aim to reduce household burning of plastic waste.

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