Carlye Chaney of Yale University will be giving a lecture titled "Environmental exposures from the local to the global: Infrastructural violence and human health inequality" on Wednesday, November 9 at 3PM in Middlebush 13. You can read more about Carlye and her research at her personal website.

Abstract for the talk: Exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) is globally ubiquitous. These chemicals, which have the ability to mimic, block, or otherwise interfere in hormonal signaling, can have adverse consequences on health throughout the lifespan. As predicted by the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Hypothesis, exposures during development can influence developmental programming processes with impacts for both short-term and long-term health. Yet, an Evolutionary Medicine perspective may help explain our initial vulnerability to evolutionarily novel EDCs. Further, environmental exposures are frequently stratified by race and ethnicity or socioeconomic status, requiring a holistic approach to investigate how structural factors influence human exposure to EDCs, with consequences for individuals’ lived experience and well-being. In this talk, I will describe three projects leveraging distinct theoretical frameworks to investigate the processes and consequences of infrastructural violence, ranging from the local to the global.