The Iowa Cancer Consortium’s Cancer and the Environment Task Force is hosting a summer webinar series, “Strategies to Reduce Environmental Cancer Risk,” that highlights actions from the individual to the institutional level that can be taken to better understand and reduce environmental and occupational exposures to cancer-causing substances.

In the first part of this series, Alicia Vasto, Water Program Director from the Iowa Environmental Council (IEC), will cover current water pollution concerns in Iowa like nitrates, their negative human health effects, and how we can improve water quality in the state. Vasto will also discuss a recently published IEC report on health risks of nitrate in drinking water. She joined the Council in 2019. Her work focuses on advocacy, outreach, and policy change to protect Iowa’s land, water, and people. Vasto grew up in Adel, IA, and holds a Master of Environmental Management degree from Duke University. 

The goal of the Iowa Cancer Consortium’s Cancer and the Environment Task Force is to connect partners with resources, knowledge, and collaboration opportunities that help them succeed in practicing cancer control work through an environmental and occupational health lens, and vice versa. Learn more about the Task Force here.

Content Disclaimer: The Iowa Cancer Consortium, the state of Iowa’s comprehensive cancer coalition, is a non-partisan, non-political organization and does not use state or federal funds to engage in lobbying. The Consortium’s Cancer and the Environment Task Force’s role is to connect partners with resources, knowledge, and collaboration opportunities that help them succeed in practicing cancer control work through an environmental and occupational health lens, and vice versa. The opinions and interpretation of the information shared by speakers and attendees in this webinar series do not necessarily reflect the positions of the Iowa Cancer Consortium, its board of directors, members, or staff.