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00:00 // Welcome & lecture overview: War’s Toxic Legacy
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War's Toxic Legacy - Environmental Health Impacts on Civilian Populations
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- 1 00:00 // Welcome & lecture overview: War’s Toxic Legacy
- 2 00:44 // Gaza ceasefire footage Jan 25, 2025 & what we’re missing
- 3 01:17 // The overlooked impact on civilians & the myth of neat war timelines
- 4 02:20 // Urban destruction as a sea of toxins: air, soil, water
- 5 03:18 // Lessons from Iraq, Syria & Kuwait oil fires
- 6 04:12 // Public health lens: the exposome in war zones
- 7 05:42 // Global conflicts 1989–2024: why “wars” are rising
- 8 06:11 // Counting deaths since 1989 & post-9/11 indirect mortality
- 9 07:21 // Deadliest theaters: Syria, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Ukraine—plus ignored wars
- 10 08:48 // The arms industry & the military carbon footprint
- 11 09:39 // Studying extreme exposures in the most vulnerable children
- 12 12:02 // Direct vs indirect harms: trauma, SGBV, displacement, disease
- 13 13:42 // Broken systems: sanitation, immunization, and medical care collapse
- 14 14:11 // Child malnutrition in conflict: wasting & stunting Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Syria
- 15 16:02 // Lifelong health trajectories set early: vulnerability that lasts
- 16 17:57 // Gaza environmental assessment Apr–May 2024: scale of rubble
- 17 18:59 // Dust, heavy metals & POPs: exposures from pulverized buildings
- 18 20:50 // Fires & smoke plumes: an unrecognized air-quality crisis
- 19 22:30 // Destroyed infrastructure: solar park, greenhouses, and tree cover loss
- 20 24:25 // Beyond body counts: the true long-term public health cost
- 21 25:27 // Law & norms: protecting the environment in war UN 2022 principles
- 22 27:46 // Aftermath obligations: assess, quantify, remediate who pays?
- 23 29:16 // Why dust matters: Hiroshima/Nagasaki’s long-lag health effects
- 24 32:24 // Iraq & Syria case studies: bombardment, depleted uranium & burn pits
- 25 35:01 // Birth defects evidence & biomarkers lead, mercury, uranium
- 26 37:51 // Pediatric cancer spikes & infant mortality signals
- 27 40:29 // DOHaD: developmental origins of disease in conflict settings
- 28 42:16 // Three-generation exposure: epigenetics made simple
- 29 47:21 // Trauma as an exposure: October 7 survivors & mental health data
- 30 53:30 // Biology of stress: HPA axis, FKBP5, and intergenerational effects
- 31 56:47 // Takeaways: war’s multigenerational health legacy
- 32 58:20 // Closing reflections & Jimmy Carter’s warning
