Join Penn Climate for the first installment of the Fall 2026 Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Marilyn Howarth. Each month, the series spotlights Penn experts at the forefront of climate science, policy, and action, sharing work and research that’s shaping how we understand and respond to a changing world.
Seminar Summary: As the climate changes around us, we experience new and worsening impacts on our health. The seminar will describe how the changing climate interfaces with existing environmental challenges, with health impacts that particularly affect already-vulnerable populations.
Dr. Marilyn Howarth is an Occupational and Environmental Medicine physician and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics at the Perelman School of Medicine. She is the Deputy Director of the NIEHS funded Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health where she leads the Translation Core through which numerous programs focus on improving the environmental health of children. She is also the Director of the Community Engagement Core of the NIEHS funded Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology where she works with researchers, regulators, legislators and communities to lower environmental risk and improve environmental health. She is a member of several state advisory boards on health and the environment. She has provided testimony to numerous City, State and federal agencies and legislative proceedings on topics ranging from flooding, lead to environmental remediation.