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Virtual Briefing | Groundbreaking Analysis of the World’s Top Toxin: Lead

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In September, the World Bank, Pure Earth, and the Center for Global Development co-hosted a virtual and in-person briefing, presenting new data and research on the global toll of lead exposure and a roadmap for solutions in the near and long term.

Featuring a panel discussion by the authors of the groundbreaking World Bank analysis published in The Lancet Planetary Health, and results of Pure Earth’s Rapid Market Screening survey of lead sources.

Speakers included:

  • Rachel Silverman Bonnifield, Center for Global Development
  • Richard Fuller, Pure Earth
  • Dan Kass, Vital Strategies
  • Bjorn Larsen, World Bank
  • Emily Nash, Pure Earth
  • Ana Navas-Acien, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
  • Abheet Solomon, UNICEF
  • Angela Bandemehr, US EPA

Click here to learn more about the new research on lead exposure.