Plenary: Environmental Justice, Technology, and Health Equity: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions

Communities of color and low-income communities across the country have been impacted by environmental, climate, and energy injustices due to systemic racism and structured poverty. In addition, many of these communities experience a high concentration of psychosocial stressors and lack of access to high quality salutogenic infrastructure including health care infrastructure. In this session, Dr. Wilson will discuss the history of environmental justice issues in the United States including the relationship between environmental injustice and health inequity and how climate change is exacerbating these inequities. He will describe how technology in various forms has driven environmental injustice and health inequities but also will detail through examples from his work and other related scholarship, how technology can be successfully used to understand and address environmental injustice and help to advance health equity.