![Healthy Society Series: The Health Benefits of Vitamin D and Solar UVB Image - heart-shaped sun](https://cdn.commonwealthclub.org/s3fs-public/2021-02/Bildschirmfoto%202021-02-24%20um%2011.31.47%20AM.png)
Healthy Society Series: The Health Benefits of Vitamin D and Solar UVB
This program will feature four vitamin D researchers who will discuss the evidence they generated and/or collected showing that vitamin D has important health benefits.
Carole Baggerly, CEO of GrassrootsHealth.net, will outline the findings of health outcomes of more than 10,000 participants in their studies who take vitamin D supplements, measure their vitamin D levels every six months, and report any health changes. She will also discuss the evidence that vitamin D reduces risk of COVID-19. Dr. Carol L. Wagner will present results from studies of high-dose vitamin D supplementation of pregnant and nursing women, such as significantly reduced risk of preterm delivery. Professor Joan M. Lappe will discuss her clinical trials on vitamin D and calcium on prevention of cancer. William B. Grant, Ph.D., director of the Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center in San Francisco, will moderate the discussion.
MLF: Health & Medicine
United States
![Image - Carole A. Baggerly](https://cdn.commonwealthclub.org/s3fs-public/2021-02/Bildschirmfoto%202021-02-24%20um%2011.27.39%20AM.png)
Carole A. Baggerly
Founder and Director, Grassrootshealth.net
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Carol L. Wagner
M.D., Professor, Pediatrics Department, College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina
![Image - Joan M. Lappe](https://cdn.commonwealthclub.org/s3fs-public/2021-02/Bildschirmfoto%202021-02-24%20um%2011.28.26%20AM.png)
Joan M. Lappe
Ph.D., R.N., Professor and Associate Dean, College of Nursing Research, Creighton University
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William B. Grant
Ph.D., Founder and Director, Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center; Vitamin D Researcher