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A panel of speakers from previous sessions will conclude the series. This panel will provide an opportunity to review the ways in which each facet of civil commitment interacts within the broader mental health system and to address questions raised during the course of the series.

Speaker: Jean Feng, Assistant Professor Epidemiology & Biostatistic, University of California, San Francisco

This presentation draws on in-depth interviews with 157 non-mothers in the U.S. and Japan to examine if and how individuals without children experience and evaluate childlessness differently by country.

This roundtable brings together scholars and practitioners from ethics, policy, and industry to discuss humanity’s future in space from the perspective of intergenerational ethics and justice.

Speaker: Katie Pollard, Professor Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco

With the rightward turn of governments in migrant-receiving countries, policy approaches to labor immigration have shifted from an emphasis on labor market integration to the punitive enforcement of controls against migrant workers who are undocumented or otherwise out of status.

Environmental Health Seminar (ENV H 580): "A One Health Approach to Lactation and Environmental Health" CeNR (BJ Cummings)

This book examines the social, political, economic, and technological forces that have amplified Palestinian voices globally, particularly in the United States, fostering new forms of activism and solidarity.

Nature and Health illuminates the connections between nature and human health and well-being. We work with the community and decision makers to translate our findings into programs and policies that promote equitable engagement with nature.

In this workshop, Golden M. Owens will discuss how the late-nineteenth/early twentieth-century introduction and promotion of laborsaving products and technologies influenced and altered popular perceptions and articulations of domestic work and domestic workers.