The Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment (MACCHE) invites you to an upcoming webinar.
Date: June 11, 2025
Time: 12 noon ET
It is important that all people, regardless of who they are or where they live, are involved in decision-making and other activities that affect human health and the environment. The aim of this webinar is to learn about how each community’s environment can affect human health, and children’s health specifically. The panelists for this webinar will discuss environmental factors and their effects on children from three unique perspectives.
About the Presenters
Kristin Ball Motley, PharmD, MBA, is a pharmacist and an advocate for community health. She will discuss her work as the Health Manager for the City of Chester, PA. Hailing from Chester, she holds a Doctor of Pharmacy from Florida A&M University and an MBA from the St. Joseph’s University (formerly University of Sciences). Dr. Motley is the founder of Health Educated, Inc. and host of the “Keeping It 100” podcast, and dedicates herself to educating the marginalized communities on important health topics. Recognized for her impactful work, she has received several accolades, including the President’s Award from the NAACP – Chester Branch. She also received a Humanitarian Award, Health Literacy Champion Award and the Innovative Pharmacist of the Year Award. In addition to her role as the Health Manager for the City of Chester, she serves as the Compliance Coordinator & Field Supervisor at Philadelphia College of Pharmacy at St Joseph’s University.
Daniel Taylor, D.O., FAAP, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine and general pediatrician at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children for the past 17 years. Dr. Taylor is also course director of Community Pediatrics and Child Advocacy at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and is the Medical Director of the medical legal partnership at St. Chris. Dr. Taylor is also the co-director of the Reach Out and Read program at St. Chris and directs the homeless healthcare for children initiative at St. Chris’s as well.
Dr. Taylor is the founder of the Children’s Advocacy Project of Philadelphia (Cap4Kids) which is an online on-line resource directory for providers, child advocates and families to find resources in their community to help address various social determinants of health that can affect the health, safety, and long term outcomes of the children we serve. This site gets hundreds of hits daily and has been replicated in a dozen communities nationally.
Dr. Taylor is also a prolific writer and has authored over 60 articles for the Health and Science section of the Philadelphia Inquirer that focuses on the health of the most vulnerable populations we serve, as well as articles in JAMA, Contemporary Pediatrics and several other prominent journals.
Dr. Taylor speaks locally and nationally on issues that affect vulnerable populations, especially those that have to do with children affected by poverty and violence. Dr. Taylor also has garnered many local and national awards for his work including several teaching awards; awards from several of the organizations that he works so closely with in the community; the President’s Award for Drexel University; the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Pediatrician of the Yea; rand the Tenet Hero Award.
Dr. Taylor’s passion is children and their families, especially those that are underserved, living on the fringes, and those most vulnerable. His impact on this population ripples throughout St. Chris, Philadelphia, and in the pediatric community nationwide.
Dong Yoon Kim is the Special Projects Coordinator with the PA Department of Environmental Protection’s Office of Environmental Justice, focused on AAPI outreach and engagement. His previous experience in PA includes engaging with government and local municipalities, politics, policy, civic engagement, advocacy and direct services within the Korean, AAPI, immigrant and the broader under-served communities. He has previously worked for Woori Center, Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition, and For our Future PA in PA.
Learning Objectives:
- Name two ways environmental factors affect children’s health.
- Identify one strategy to address the environmental factors that affect children’s health.