Community Meetings
Interested in having our team give a presentation to your community group?
Reach out to us! We're available to discuss basic PFAS information, our study's findings, the history of how the study started, and more. Q&A sessions are always encouraged following presentations, and slides are available on our website after.
Meetings from 2025
- Cumberland County : Beyond the Tap – PFAS in Dust (May 15, 2025)
- Cumberland County hosted a free, open to the open community meeting and invited our team to discuss our publication investigating PFAS in the dust of homes near the Fayetteville Works plant.
- Speaker: Nadine Kotlarz, PhD
- Beyond the Tap – PFAS in Dust slides
- PFAS 101 at Warner Temple AME Zion Church (March 1, 2025)
- We were invited to share a PFAS presentation and Q&A session at Warner Temple AME Zion Church in Wilmington, NC on Saturday, March 1st. We discussed sources of PFAS in the water, how levels of PFAS in water have changed, the history of the GenX Exposure Study, the study’s findings and more. Slides linked below.
- Speaker: Jane Hoppin, ScD
- PFAS 101 presentation slides – Warner Temple
Meetings from 2024
- Community Meetings to review 2023 sampling results
- We held three community meetings throughout Fall 2024 to discuss 2023 PFAS blood sample results specific to each community in the study. The slides for each meeting are linked below.
- Speaker: Jane Hoppin, ScD
- Pittsboro presentation slides (September 11, 2024)
- Fayetteville presentation slides (Gray’s Creek, September 17, 2024)
- Lower Cape Fear presentation slides (Wilmington, October 29, 2024)
- Community Webinar reviewing 2023 sampling results (August 6, 2024)
- A discussion of the 2023 PFAS blood results from the communities of Pittsboro, Fayetteville, and the Lower Cape Fear River Basin
- Speaker: Jane Hoppin, ScD
- Webinar slides
- Webinar recording
- Webinar on published research article (March 20, 2024)
- An overview of our recent findings on the relationship between PFAS in blood and well water in the Fayetteville area
- Speaker: Nadine Kotlarz, PhD
- Webinar recording
Meetings from 2022
- Webinar on 2020-2021 Blood PFAS Results (October 18, 2022)
- An overview of the 2020-2021 PFAS blood findings
- Speakers: Carolyn Mattingly, PhD; Jane Hoppin, ScD; Nadine Kotlarz, PhD
- Webinar slides
- Webinar recording
- Facebook Live Event in Spanish and English (December 1, 2022)
- Speakers: Jane Hoppin, ScD and Dr. Edel Segovia (UNC Wilmington Centro Hispano Latino Alliance)
- Event recording
- Wilmington Community Meeting (December 7, 2022)
- An overview of PFAS results for blood samples collected 2020-2021
- Speakers: Nadine Kotlarz, PhD and Jane Hoppin, ScD
- Presentation slides
Meetings from 2021
- In-person / Virtual Fayetteville Community Meeting
- PFAS results from blood from Bladen and Cumberland County residents sampled in February 2019
- Speakers: Nadine Kotlarz, PhD and Jane Hoppin, ScD
- Presentation slides
Meetings from 2020
- Fayetteville Community Meeting Webinar (June 20, 2020)
- A review of PFAS results from the private wells sampled in February 2019
- Speakers: Nadine Kotlarz, PhD and Jane Hoppin, ScD
- Presentation slides
- Latino Alliance Facebook Live Event (October 2020)
- A discussion of the GenX Exposure Study and upcoming recruitment with members of the UNC-Wilmington Latino Alliance.
- Speakers: Jane Hoppin, ScD
- Presentation slides
- Event recording
Meetings from 2018
- New Hanover Drinking Water Community Meeting (April 17, 2018)
- A discussion of PFAS tap water results to Wilmington residents.
- Speakers: Nadine Kotlarz, PhD
- Presentation slides
- Blood Results Community Meeting (November 13, 2018)
- A discussion of PFAS blood results with Wilmington residents.
- Speakers: Nadine Kotlarz, PhD and Jane Hoppin, ScD
- Presentation slides (English)