September 17 Webinar: Belly of the Beast: Food, Water, and Gastrointestinal Illness in our Changing Climate
In the sixth installment of VCCA’s Health in Virginia’s Changing Climate webinar series, Dr. Rebecca Philipsborn of Emory University will discuss the impact of climate change on gastrointestinal health. Dr. Philipsborn will cover how changing precipitation patterns and extreme weather events lead to an altered burden of enteric infections, how climate change threatens access to safe drinking water and food security, and describe health and climate benefits of plant-forward diets.