Teach In: Environmental Toxins & Your Health

Start: 2026-02-19 18:00:00 UTC Central Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-06:00)

End: 2026-02-19 20:00:00 UTC Central Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-06:00)

Location: Neighbors for Environmental Justice - Iron Lab• 3700 S Iron St, CHICAGO, IL 60609 US

Event Type: Hybrid (In-Person & Virtual Option)
A virtual link will be communicated before the event.

Host contact info chicago@standupforscience.net

When you smell bad fumes from diesel trucks and industries, like MAT Asphalt, this impacts your health. Come learn more about these impacts and what you can do to help fight against pollution!

Stand Up for Science Chicago, Neighbors for Environmental Justice (N4EJ), and the ChicAgo Center for Health and EnvironmenT (CACHET) invite you to a community Teach-In: Environmental Toxins & Your Health.

Our speakers include Dr. Julia Bauer and Dr. Robert Sargis:

Dr. Julia Bauer is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UIC. She studies how environmental exposures across the life course affect brain health, from child neurodevelopment to later risk of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Her work focuses on communities disproportionately impacted by pollution and uses advanced statistical methods and molecular biomarkers to understand how exposures contribute to disease risk.

Dr. Robert Sargis, MD, PhD is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at UIC. His research and clinical work examine how environmental and occupational exposures contribute to diabetes, lipid disorders, and other endocrine diseases. He studies how these exposures disrupt hormonal systems at the molecular level and translate into chronic disease risk. Dr. Sargis brings a patient-centered perspective to understanding how pollution and toxic exposures impact the health of affected communities.

Refreshments will be provided!

More info about our partner organizations: Neighbors for Environmental Justice (N4EJ) & ChicAgo Center for Health and EnvironmenT (CACHET)