**Offsite location** This event will take place at the Lexington Venue, 1794 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington

Join us for a screening of the Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics. Plastic People is an award-winning feature documentary that chronicles humanity’s fraught relationship with plastic and one woman’s mission to expose shocking new revelations about the impact of microplastics on human health. Winner of the Environmental Award at the Hamptons Doc Fest and the Jury Prize at the Filme für die Erde Festival in Switzerland (plasticpeopledoc.com).  A discussion will follow with Dr. Philip Landrigan.

About Philip Landrigan:

Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc is a pediatrician and epidemiologist, board-certified in the specialties of pediatrics, general preventive medicine, and occupational & environmental medicine. He is a Professor at Boston College, where he directs the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good and the Global Observatory on Planetary Health.

For five decades, Dr. Landrigan has undertaken research elucidating connections between the environment and human health and translated this research into disease prevention policies.

Since 2019, he has chaired the Monaco Commission on Human Health and Ocean Pollution. From 2021-2023, he chaired the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health, which found that plastics harm human health at every stage of the plastic life cycle and that these harms fall disproportionately upon the poor, minorities, and the marginalized. This Commission formulated recommendations to guide drafting of the UN Global Plastics Treaty. Currently, he is co-lead on The Lancet Countdown on Health and Plastics.

Dr. Landrigan served on active duty in the US Public Health Service from 1970 to 1985, and then in the Medical Corps of the United States Naval Reserve from 1996 to 2005. He retired from the Navy at the
rank of Captain.

Dr. Landrigan graduated from Boston Latin School (1959), Boston College (1963), Harvard Medical School (1967) and the London School of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, University of London (1977). He
trained in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital Boston trained in epidemiology as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and prevention. He is a member of
the National Academy of Medicine.

Film runs for 84 mins.  Director: Ben Addelman, Co-Director & Science Journalist: Ziya Tong

Attendance is on a first-come basis.

Presented in partnership with Climate Action Team - First Parish in Lexington UU, Lexington Climate Action Network (LexCAN), Lexington Zero Waste Collaborative (LexZeroWaste), and The Lexington Venue.