The utility of collaboration as a tool for improving public health requires clearly defined paths for implementing the research outputs. This talk will provide lessons learned from an international, multi-stakeholder consortia leadership organization that has engaged toxicology and health science expertise to address contemporary human and environmental health and safety challenges.
Syril D Pettit, MEM, DrPH(c)
As Executive Director of the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute - HESI, Syril provides scientific and strategic direction to HESIs innovative collaborative research programs in health and safety sciences. She has provided scientific leadership at HESI since 2000. She holds a Masters Degree in Environmental Toxicology from Duke University, a Bachelors Degree in Biology from Amherst College, and is pursuing a Doctorate in Public Health Leadership at the University of North Carolinas Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is broadly published in human and environmental health journals and speaks at international scientific meetings around the world. She volunteers on other foundation Boards with public health missions. In her free time, Syril is an avid marathoner and swimmer..