PA Doctors to Discuss the Public Health Impacts of Fracking

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Susan Phillips tells stories about the consequences of political decisions on people's every day lives. She has worked as a reporter for WHYY since 2004. Susan's coverage of the 2008 Presidential election resulted in a story on the front page of the New York Times. In 2010 she traveled to Haiti to cover the earthquake. That same year she produced an award-winning series on Pennsylvania's natural gas rush called "The Shale Game." She received a 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award for her work covering natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania. She has also won several Edward R. Murrow awards for her work with StateImpact. In 2013/14 she spent a year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow. She has also been a Metcalf Fellow, an MBL Logan Science Journalism Fellow and reported from Marrakech on the 2016 climate talks as an International Reporting Project Fellow. A graduate of Columbia School of Journalism, she earned her Bachelor's degree in International Relations from George Washington University.

October 6, 2011 | 5:07 PM

The Pennsylvania Medical Society will be hosting a session on how natural gas drilling impacts public health. One of the speakers will be Samuel Lesko, with the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute. The Institute is conducting a study of residents of northeast Pennsylvania, by collecting baseline health assessments in high drilling areas.
Other speakers will discuss the health risks of fracking, and the recommendations of Governor Corbett’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission. The event is not open to the public, but journalists can attend.