Interdisciplinary Approaches to Development through SDGs
Room: 1002
Exploring Interdisciplinary Approaches to Local, National and Global Development through the United Nations SDGs: Increasing Awareness & Engagement of Sustainable Development Goals
Event time: Friday, March 8 at 1:30-4:00pm, DSB 1002
Please join The Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, at Western University as it hosts its 2nd SDG Canada week seminar session (https://sdgweekcanada.ca/).
The session will feature seven 15-20-minute presentations with a Q&A from faculty members will include topics such as;
- optimizing brain health;
- synthetic biology and CRISPR;
- the SDGs and vulnerable women;
- planetary health;
- sustainable biomedical technologies;
- insights from the One Health approach with implications for sustainability and human rights;
- and higher education institutions and SDGs, as related to achieving the UN SDGs (https://sdgs.un.org/goals).
Speakers include Drs. Lacefield (Electrical and computer engineering), Frisbee (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine), Lambert and Arku (Geography), Edgell (Biochemistry), Annan-Aggrey (Geography), Redvers (Epidemiology and Biostatics) and Whitehead ( Anatomy and Cell Biology).
Join us in person in DSB 1002 on March 8 at 1:30pm or online through Zoom.
