Experts in the health and housing sectors will converge this weekend to look at the link between the two fields at a forum organized by Montefiore Health System’s Moses Community Advisory Board (CAB).

The two-hour session at the Sister Annunciata Bethell Senior Center takes a look at the various factors linking housing to health. This includes the health effects to living in homes with high lead levels, lack of heat and hot water, or vermin. It will look beyond the physical and to the mental impact of housing instability. This can include worries over losing a home or being unable to afford rent, contributing factors to increased stress.

With home fires often resulting in displacement, members of the FDNY will also be on hand to offer fire prevention tips.

Substandard housing impacts children the greatest, according to a study by How Housing Matters, a housing advocacy group whose 2013 study of poor housing conditions and its impact on children was funded by the MacArthur Foundation. The study surveyed 2,400 low-income children, teens and young adults between the ages of 2 and 21 living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio.

Jason Caraballo, a manager with Montefiore’s Government & Community Relations Office, will moderate the panel. Guests will include Sally Dunford, executive director of West Bronx Housing, a tenants advocacy group and a Moses CAB member, and Jill Samuels with Montefiore’s lead prevention program. A portion of the program is expected to help seniors and the disabled sign up the respective SCRIE and DRIE programs that officially freeze rents.

Editor’s Note: The forum takes place Feb. 23 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Sister Annunciata Senior Center, 243 E. 204th St. For more information, call (718) 324-4468.